Kate Moss has praised the ‘lovely family vibes’ at Hugh Hefner’s notorious Los Angeles mansion following a string of unsavoury allegations made by former Playmate Holly Madison.
The British model visited publishing magnate Hefner at his sprawling Holmby Hills home shortly before celebrating her 40th birthday with a cover shoot for his iconic men’s’ magazine in 2013.
Hefner, who passed away aged 91 in 2017, and the 29-room Gothic-Tudor style property he originally purchased in 1974 have since been condemned by ex-Playmate Madison, who claims she felt pressured into having sex with the ageing publisher during her time in the mansion.
Speaking out: Kate Moss has praised the ‘lovely family vibes’ at Hugh Hefner’s notorious mansion following a string of unsavoury allegations made by former Playmate Holly Madison
Recalling her own experience with Hefner during a British Vogue interview on Wednesday, Kate insisted her memories are only positive, with the house more like a family home than a harem.
He said: ‘Well I met Hugh Hefner, I went to his house. I really liked him and he was there with his kids and a few of his bunnies and one of his bunnies took me round the house and gave me a tour and stuff.
‘I met his secretary who’d been with him for like seventy years, they’re just like a lovely institution or something, family vibes. I don’t know, I really liked it, there was nothing like seedy or gross about it. It was kind of really playful.’
Iconic: Kate featured in an 18-page spread for the 60th anniversary of Playboy in 2013, shortly before she celebrated her milestone 40th birthday
Kate featured in an 18-page spread for the 60th anniversary of Playboy in 2013, shortly before she celebrated her milestone 40th birthday.
Shot by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, the series included Kate wearing Playboy’s legendary bunny ears, black leotard and matching stiletto heels for its cover shot.
Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Madison recently claimed the Playboy founder would sometimes not move during sex, explaining that their ‘gross’ bedroom encounters felt like a ‘chore’ to her.
Recalling her own experience with Hefner during a British Vogue interview on Wednesday, Kate insisted her memories are only positive, with the house more like a home than a harem
Madison, now 42, has teamed up with fellow ex-playmate Bridget Marquardt for a brand new podcast, called Girls Next Level.
In the first episode, which premiered in August, the two women – whom both dated the magazine publisher and lived in the Playboy Mansion in the early 2000s – shared some intimate details on what it was like to have sex with him, claiming that it sometimes only lasted one minute and that he would often lay completely still during the intimate act.
The ladies also detailed sleeping with Hugh in front of other woman, who would ‘talk s**t about them’ while it was happening, and admitted that they wanted to ‘get it over with as quickly as possible.’
Claims: Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison recently claimed he would sometimes not move during sex, explaining that their ‘gross’ bedroom encounters felt like a ‘chore’ to her.
Speaking out: Madison, now 42, has teamed up with fellow ex-playmate Bridget Marquardt for a brand new podcast called Girls Next Level
‘None of the females were into it, like sorry to burst the bubble,’ Holly, who was with Hugh from 2001 until 2008, revealed.
She added that the women all thought of sleeping with Hugh as a ‘chore,’ but that they had to do it out of fear that they’d be ‘kicked out of the house.’
‘We thought of it as a chore that we had to do or else we’ll get kicked out of the house,’ she explained. ‘And everybody just wanted to make it go by as quickly as possible.’
Opening up: The ladies (seen with Hefner in 2007) admitted that they wanted to ‘get it over with as quickly as possible’ and that ‘none of the females were into it’
She claimed that Hugh would often stay still during sex, calling him ‘a bump on the log in the middle of the bed.’
‘He wouldn’t move. He would be like a bump on the log in the middle of the bed,’ she continued of having sex with Hugh, who passed away in 2019 at age 91.
‘I can’t explain to you guys how embarrassing that whole routine was. Especially as we got later down the road when there would be, like, a lot of conflict with the other girls.
Gone: Hefner (pictured in 2005) died from sepsis brought on by an E. coli infection on September 27, 2017
‘You’re literally sitting there naked having sex in front of a group of people who hate you and talk s**t about you while you’re having sex and you can hear it. It was just, like, Hell.’
Earlier this year, Madison spoke out about her experiences in the ‘cult-like’ mansion as part of A&E’s docuseries, Secrets of Playboy.
In it, she claimed that Hefner ‘isolated her from the outside world,’ explaining that she and the other girls were only allowed to leave the legendary Los Angeles pad for special reasons and were told not to invite friends over.
Friendly: Kate insists she was struck by how welcoming and warm Hefner and his team were during her visit to the Playboy mansion
‘We were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as, like, this really good guy. You started to feel like, “Oh, he’s not what they say in the media,”‘ she said in the show.
She also alleged that Hefner once ‘screamed at her’ for cutting her hair, claiming that he told her that the new ‘do made her ‘look old, hard and cheap.’
‘I [was] made to feel like I needed to look exactly like everybody else,’ she said. ‘My hair was really long naturally and I was just like, “I’m gonna go chop my hair off so I can at least look a little different.”‘
But Madison claimed that the magazine editor’s reaction was not positive at all to her new look.
She said: ‘I came back with short hair and he flipped out on me and he was screaming at me and said it make me look old, hard and cheap.’
She also spoke further on their first night together in the show, explaining: ‘He was literally pushed on top of me.
‘And after it happened, I was just mortified and embarrassed and it had way more of an emotional impact on me than I thought it would.
‘It wasn’t that the idea of possibly having sex with him repelled me so much. It was more the group aspect that was really out of my comfort zone.’
Hefner died from sepsis brought on by an E. coli infection on September 27, 2017.
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