Whats the real story behind Holly Madison leaving Hugh Hefner?
The two sides of Hugh Hefner Doc offers fleshier look at the Playboy legend, who’s also an activist and a hopeless romantic The 83-year-old who built a publishing empire on sex will walk down the TIFF red carpet today for the premiere of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, three gorgeous women on his arm, two of them 19-year-old twins. KISS bassist Gene Simmons – who shares his life with Hef’s one-time girlfriend, Canadian-born 1982 Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed – opens the documentary with the words: “There isn’t a man alive who wouldn’t give his left nut to be Hugh Hefner.” But Oscar-winning Toronto director Brigitte Berman urges us to look beyond the sybarite side with her doc, which has its world premiere today, and appreciate Hefner as more libertarian than libertine. Or, as Playboy contributor Ray Bradbury once observed, “They don’t see the forest for the Ts,” Hefner recalled with a hearty laugh on the phone from the storied Playboy Mansion this week. “I think the maga
After months of rumors, Holly Madison cleared things up to a few paparazzi photographers last night on the streets of Hollywood: she and Hugh Hefner are no longer together. On their hit show, The Girls Next Door, Holly has been begging Hef to settle down and marry her. She often planned out what their wedding would be like, while his eyes just kind of glazed interview. While she’s been very vocal about becoming a wife and a mother, he saw things very differently. “I love her very much, but you know, she wants very much to get married and have children,” he said in a recent interview. “That isn’t very much in the cards for me. So there has to be a certain reality there. And I’m sure the time will come when she’ll be dating others. That’s part of the transition.” Hefner has been very realistic and calm in the weeks leading up the breakup, which is not surprising. The man has had more girlfriends than anyone on the face of the planet and breakups are just part of his reality. He joked tha
