Warning: This article contains some distressing allegations.

A former Playboy Bunny has claimed that she had an abortion at the age of 19 and that the late founder Hugh Hefner was the baby's father.

Following the death of the late Playboy mogul in 2017, many of his former "Bunnies" have spoken out about his alleged behavior and actions towards them.

These stories, along with the release of the 2021 Hulu documentary Secrets of Playboy, have resulted in many people changing the way they view the seemingly enchanting life within the controversial Playboy Mansion.

Earlier this year, former playmate Karissa Shannon spoke to The Mirror and said that she was invited to live in the infamous Playboy Mansion back in 2009, along with her twin sister, Kristina.

However, things took a drastic that same year when Karissa found out that she was pregnant by chance after undergoing a blood test before a planned breast enlargement, paid for by Hefner, in 2009.

"I wasn’t having sex with anyone else so it only could have been his baby. I just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible," she told the outlet. "I didn’t want Hef to find out and he never did.

"I was disgusted with my body and felt like there was an alien inside my stomach. It was like the devil was inside of me. I didn’t want anyone to know I was carrying an 83-year-old man’s child," she added.

The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant claimed that she got an abortion after she and her sister convinced Hefner's security that they were going shopping. They then called their friend to pick them up and take Karissa to a clinic in LA.

The twins also alleged to the publication that they were first encouraged to sleep with the magazine and TV mogul on their 19th birthday and were pushed into unprotected group sex and plied with alcohol and booze.

They described Hefner as having a "black soul" and say their interactions with him left them with PTSD, depression, and needing counseling. This is why they felt somewhat glad to hear of his death in 2017, as now no other women could suffer the same way they did.

"When Hef died, part of us did feel sad, but another part was like, 'OK good, no more girls are going to be groomed and ruined like we were,'" they told The Mirror. "I thought Playboy was one big family – now I can see it was a cult."

Karissa and Kristina are not the first former Playboy bunnies to speak out as Holly Madison - who shot to fame on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door between 2005 and 2010 - has also opened up about her time in the notorious mansion.

Just like the twins, the 43-year-old made the decision not to mourn Hefner after he died at age 97 because she didn't "have any emotional attachment to him anymore in any way," per PEOPLE.

The former Playboy Playmate - who moved into the notorious residence at the age of 21 back in 2001 - went public about everything she experienced in her relationship with Hefner in her book Down the Rabbit Hole, which was released before his passing.

"I'd already come out talking about what a toxic relationship this was for me," she told the publication. "Why am I supposed to post a memorial on my Instagram?"

As Holly is still healing from the trauma she suffered from a young age, she admitted that she didn’t get any "relief at all" when hearing of the mogul's demise. "Not relief at all, because I felt like I had taken myself kind of out of that universe pretty solidly. But it was a really odd time," she recalled.

"For me, after leaving that relationship, I kind of felt like he had always interacted with me in such a fake way," she continued.  "Because every interaction he had with me was all about control or this fantasy he had of a relationship. It almost felt like playing house in a way.

"Before he passed away, there had been maybe five or six years where I just had not spoken to him at all. He had become a completely different character in my mind," she added.

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A former Playboy bunny has explained what her life was like living with the deceased founder Hugh Hefner, and one aspect of the couple’s sex life that she ‘hated’.

Holly Madison lived at the Playboy Mansion with Hefner for years, and was in a relationship with the controversial magazine mogul from 2001-2008.

Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison were together for seven years

Even though Hefner was 53 years older than Madison, the pair had a healthy - well, certainly an active - sex life together during their seven years together - although Hefner famously had many girlfriends at the same time, of which Madison was just one.

Madison has often discussed her life at the Playboy Mansion, describing both the good and the bad elements.

Now that Hefner is gone, she has revealed a number of other things about their relationship together that are not so good.

Hefner died aged 91 back in 2017, and has been the subject of many abuse allegations.

Madison, who is now 45, said that there was one particular thing that she found ‘disgusting’.

One thing that Madison ‘hated’ in the bedroom

Appearing on the ‘In Your Dreams’ podcast back in May, Madison spilled the beans.

“If it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think,” she explained.

However, she admitted that she ‘hated’ group sex with Hefner and others.

She continued: “It’s a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room.

“Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting.

“I hated it.

“I made it very known I hated it.”

There were other issues too, as Madison admitted that she couldn’t post online because of comments she’d receive because of the age gap relationship.

She said: “There was a time when I couldn't post anything [on social media] without some dumba** in the comments [being] like, 'Oh, old balls.'

“Maybe some people's balls do get old and nasty, but I've never seen such a thing.”

There were other problems too - including the fact that she ‘didn’t actually know him that well’ despite the illusion of a connection.

“I thought I was connecting with [Hefner],” she said.

“When really I was just somebody who had trouble connecting with people my whole life.

“And I’d met somebody who was like a master manipulator.”

In the end, she was - she admits - ‘somebody who was young and impressionable and just kind of in a fog almost’.

Two former Playboy bunnies have opened up about the goings on inside the infamous Playboy mansion, including a "disgusting" sex book that Hugh Hefner kept.

Holly Madison, 43, and 48-year-old Bridget Marquardt were both popular figures on the E! reality series, Girls of Playboy Mansion.

They were involved with the late Hugh Hefner in the 2000s and have since made some astonishing claims and have shed light on the secrets that happened inside the mansion.

The two women took to their podcast, Girls Next Level, where they revealed that Hefner kept a note of who he slept with and how many times it occurred.

"He would walk over to the safe and open it up, and then he had this little black book in there that he would pull out," Marquardt recalled.

"The black book kept track of a few different things. It kept track of when somebody collected their allowance - he would mark it off so you couldn’t ask for it twice. But it also kept track of who slept with him and when."

Madison claimed that she wanted to burn the book "so badly" after she left the house, being 21 when she was dating 75-year-old Hefner.

"I’m just so disgusted with how he [kept] a record of who he had sex with [and] on what night, and [took] all these nudes of all the girls when they’re in the limo and drunk and flashing and stuff," Madison explained.

She went on to reveal that Hefner would take nude images of the women in the mansion and would store them in a "scrapbook".

"I later found out that at that point, he planned on donating his scrapbook to a library. So that was another thing that made me feel kind of weird and afraid to leave, ‘cause I felt like there was this mountain of revenge porn."

The women also revealed that Hefner would keep track of when they had been on their period, as well as give them performance reviews when they went to collect their allowance.

It would seem as if the infamous magazine publisher wasn't a loving partner, as Madison revealed how a simple conversation could quickly turn into an argument, and how his attitude to his partners would change over time.

The 43-year-old explained that Hefner "bit her head off" after she made some suggestions about living arrangements in the mansion, leaving her in tears.

She said: "I said to him, ‘Well, clearly this relationship isn’t what I thought it was'. Cause this was after months of him love-bombing me, saying he wanted me to spend the rest of his life with him, and I can’t even have a reasonable conversation with him?"

Hefner passed away in 2017 and as per the Mirror, the Playboy mansion has been "left to rot" ever since.

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Warning: This article contains some distressing allegations.

A former Playboy Playmate and one of the last women to date Hugh Hefner has said that sex with the founder was "like rape".

Karissa Shannon and her twin sister Kristina appeared in the final season of the E! reality show The Girls Next Door when they were 18.

Their relationship with Hefner (who was 83 at the time) was depicted as fun and consensual, but the sisters have opened up on A&E's docuseries Secrets Of Playboy, where they explain that the reality of the relationship was different from what was seen on TV.

The documentary reveals that the sisters were working at a Hooters-style restaurant in Florida when they were scouted to do a test shoot for Playboy, as cited by the Huffington Post.

The images that were taken attracted the attention of Hefner, who named the women July and August 2008 Playmates, and they were soon whisked off to live in the Playboy mansion.

They met up with Hefner who was allegedly acting nervously. He suggested the trio take a pill to ease their nerves, and the girls obliged.

Karissa stated that the pills made both her and her sister "really f***ed up ... the most inebriated we’ve ever been." She alleges that Hefner used their inebriated state to his advantage and forced them to engage in oral sex with him.

Karissa said that it was like "having sex with your grandpa", and the pair scrubbed themselves in the shower afterward to try and sterilize themselves.

She went on to say: "Every time I’ve done it with him, it’s assault. To me, it’s like rape. He used control mechanisms completely through everything."

The sisters say they felt imprisoned in the mansion as they worried about their careers if they were to leave. Karissa explained that they would often need to be drunk in order to cope with Hefner and his alleged behavior.

The worst came when Karissa found out she was pregnant. "I got a call saying, ‘Hey, you’re pregnant’ [and] I freaked," she explained. "[I said] 'don’t call Hef, don’t call anyone, I don’t want anyone knowing.’"

She said she felt disgusted by her body and it was like having an "alien" inside of her, so she took the decision to terminate the pregnancy. Due to the nature of how the baby was conceived, she has no regrets about her decision.

Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91.

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A former Playboy bunny has previously spoken out about one aspect of her relationship with Hugh Hefner that she described as “disgusting” and admitted she “hated” during her time living at the Playboy Mansion.

Holly Madison was in her early 20s when she began dating Hefner, who was 53 years older than her. Their relationship lasted from 2001 to 2008, during which Hefner was also involved with other girlfriends, including Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.

Over the years, Madison has shared a number of insights into life inside the mansion, including strict rules the women were expected to follow. One of the most controversial expectations involved group sex, which she discussed on Owen Thiele’s In Your Dreams podcast.

Not your typical house rules

She explained that while intimacy between just her and Hefner was a “very different story,” the group situations were something she found deeply uncomfortable, saying: “I hated it. I made it very known I hated it.” She added that it felt “really ‘disgusting’” when others were present.

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Madison contrasted this with their private moments, saying: “If it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think.”

Reflecting on their relationship, she said the large age gap didn’t personally bother her, though it often drew criticism from others. She recalled: “I feel like there was a time when I couldn’t post anything without some dumbass in the comments like, ‘Oh, old balls,’ or something like that,” before adding, “Maybe some people’s balls do get old and nasty, but I’ve never seen such a thing.”

She also revealed that they would often keep the lights off, joking: “I mean, there’s a saying: ‘All cats are grey in the dark.’”

In a previous interview with BuzzFeed in 2015, Madison said the group encounters followed a strict routine. “It was always Wednesdays and Fridays after the club. It was always exactly the same because that’s just how he likes to live his life,” she said.

According to Madison, participation was expected from everyone living at the mansion. “They knew it was kind of a quote-unquote requirement for living there, and expected,” she explained, adding that it “had kind of a chore vibe.”

Madison reveals Hefner's controlling tendencies

She has also claimed Hefner was highly controlling about appearance. Speaking on Secrets of Playboy, she said the pressure to conform eventually became overwhelming: “I got to a point not too far into my time there… where I kind of broke under that pressure and being made to feel like I needed to look exactly like everybody else.”

Madison said she tried to assert some individuality by cutting her hair, but claimed Hefner reacted badly, telling her the new look made her “look old, hard and cheap.”

Looking back, she described feeling stuck during those early years, saying: “I remember there were times probably within the first couple years I lived there when I felt like I was just in this cycle of gross things and I didn’t know what to do.”

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