American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story on Amazon Prime

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3. I did make it through Secrets of Playboy, which I found really revolting.

Not that I don't believe it. His victims were credible. The stories of exploitation and rape are just heartbreaking.

I noted that Hefner's "civil rights" included giving cover to Bill Cosby and Don Cornelius, who both were known to sexually abuse the women at the Playboy mansion and elsewhere.

I think the series on Amazon Prime series must be a PR response to the one on Hulu. It focused mostly on his business - i.e., the magazine - where as the series on Hulu is mostly about the experience of the girls who lived at the Playboy mansion, which was pretty bad. I don't think he invented date rape - but he certainly drugged a lot of girls who he claimed to be protecting.

Hefner said he was introducing a new ethics of sexual morality - but he had no ethics whatsoever except to use women for his pleasure and allow his friends to do so. Women trusted him and men seemed to look up to him, but he was a horrible person.