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Former Playboy Bunny Holly Madison reveals shocking details of Hugh Hefner’s ‘black book’
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Updated 11:38 17 Dec 2025 GMTPublished 11:37 17 Dec 2025 GMT

Former Playboy Bunny Holly Madison reveals shocking details of Hugh Hefner’s ‘black book’

Holly Madison was just joined by fellow Playmate Bridget Marquardt on the Girls Next Level podcast

Rhiannon Ingle

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Topics: Playboy, US News, Celebrity, Hugh Hefner, Sex and Relationships

Rhiannon Ingle
Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle is a Senior Journalist at Tyla, specialising in TV, film, travel, and culture. A graduate of the University of Manchester with a degree in English Literature, she honed her editorial skills as the Lifestyle Editor of The Mancunian, the UK’s largest student newspaper. With a keen eye for storytelling, Rhiannon brings fresh perspectives to her writing, blending critical insight with an engaging style. Her work captures the intersection of entertainment and real-world experiences.

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Holly Madison, a former Playboy model, has opened up about the shocking details of Hugh Hefner's 'black book'.

Hefner made a name for himself as the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, before expanding his business into a multi-million dollar industry.

He became the subject of a number of sexual assault allegations, and, throughout the course of his many scandals, many women who resided at the mansion alongside him have come forward to open up about their experiences.

45-year-old TV personality Madison, who lived in the infamous Playboy mansion between 2001 to 2008, is no stranger to sharing exactly what went down while she was Hefner's 'Number One Girl' all those years ago.

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She's already detailed the 'disgusting' sex act with Hefner she 'hated' doing, the bizarre sex item he used to keep in his bedroom and the 'gross' reality of her relationship with the publisher, who died aged 91 back in 2017.

Former Playboy model Holly Madison has opened up about Hugh Hefner's 'black book' (Chad Buchanan / Contributor / Getty Images)
Former Playboy model Holly Madison has opened up about Hugh Hefner's 'black book' (Chad Buchanan / Contributor / Getty Images)

Speaking on a throwback episode of the Girls Next Level podcast, Madison was joined by fellow former Playmate Bridget Marquardt, where they dished the dirt on Hefner's 'black book' - something which he reportedly used to keep tabs on many of his live-in roommates.

"The black book kept track of a few different things," Marquardt, 42, explained. "It kept track of when somebody collected their allowance. He would mark it off so you couldn’t ask for it twice."

She added: "It also kept track of who slept with him and when."

They went on to claim that while it never happened to them, they heard from other women in the residence that Hefner would use the book to give them a 'report' on how they were doing when they approached him to get their weekly allowance.

Madison was joined by fellow former Playmate Bridget Marquardt on the podcast (Jason LaVeris / Contributor / Getty Images)
Madison was joined by fellow former Playmate Bridget Marquardt on the podcast (Jason LaVeris / Contributor / Getty Images)

"He’d be like, 'Oh, you’ve been on your period for three weeks,'" the pair remembered hearing from the other roommates.

For Madison, the black book was one of the reasons she eventually decided to leave the mansion and end the seven-year relationship with Hefner.

She recalled: "When I was moving out of the house - I wanted [to] so badly, but I had no access - if I could have gotten to the drawer and burned that book, I would have.

"Because I’m just so disgusted with how he keeps a record of who he has sex with each night and takes all these nudes of all the girls when they’re in the limo and drunk and flashing, and then prints them out, hands them to every girl in the limo, puts them in a scrapbook."

Madison added: "So, that was another thing that made me feel weird and afraid to leave, I feel like there was this mountain of revenge porn that everybody is going to see at some point, so I might as well hide here - it was just gross."

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