Sondra Theodore was only 19 when she began dating Hugh Hefner (age 50) – and over five years, beginning in 1975, she experienced increasingly traumatic situations at the Playboy Mansion. She shares her stories on two episodes of A&E’s Secrets of Playboy docuseries: on season one, she details manipulation and coercion, referring to herself as a “mule” for Hugh Hefner; and on season two, she and her daughter recount family-oriented events at the Mansion that turned into her daughter seeking refuge there at the same age Sondra was when she moved in.
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Timestamps:
00:29 Youth, Meeting Hugh Hefner
02:45 Seclusion
4:45 Unknowingly Becoming “A Mule”
07:03 Leaving the Playboy Mansion
8:21 Life After Playboy
10:28 Sondra and daughter, Katie
13:35 Sharing her Truth
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Sondra’s story on “Secrets of Playboy” was so compelling. I feel so bad for her experience. I really had no idea how absolutely awful and exploitative that both Hef and the men associated with Hef were to women. Like Jim Brown having a history of literally torturing women at the Playboy Mansion. Bill Maher is lucky he isn’t cancelled. He was one of those men who went to the Mansion A LOT.
I’m not surprised IN THE LEAST.
A 50 year old dating a 19 year old is truly INSANE and such an ick
Hefner is creepy and gross…..
Fun Fact: Hugh Hefner donated a lot of money to NOW and other feminist/pro-abortion groups.
I’m always intrigued by people who are heavily into religion and turn to entertainment, especially “adult” entertainment.
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Do you know that playboy is a serious, high level mkultra and trafficking institution? Procuring women for mind control. Hefner was similar and possibly even worse than Epstein.
Hef trafficked women, but it wasn’t for MK Ultra. MK Ultra dosed people with LSD. Hef drugged women with Quaaludes, which are distinctly different drugs. Women being dosed with LSD for the supposed purpose of being sexually compliant, would have gone REALLY wrong. Women wouldn’t have been sexually compliant, they would have disappeared into closets and bathrooms and not wanted to come out. Also, MK Ultra was a distinctly Right Wing program that was part of the FBI and CIA’s mission to target and destroy liberal organizations and celebrities. Hef, although he was a complete POS in the way he treated women, was a Civil Rights Activist. His politics were fairly liberal. The FBI in particular, went after Hef. They arrested his Social Secretary, Bobbie Arnstein, and wanted her to flip on Hef. She ended her life rather than turn on Hef. You are mistaken as to what MK Ultra was and who the FBI and CIA were targeting in their C0intelpro and CHA0S programs. They were targeting Liberals like Hef, Jane Fonda, the Black Panther Party. They harassed and planted false stories about Jean Seberg, because she had helped the Black Panther Party. She ended her life over that harassment. And they attempted to take Hef down by charging him with drug trafficking. Except the woman they had hoped to use against him, ended her life. Again, Hef was a MAJOR POS, abuser and trafficker of women. But he definitely was NOT part of MK Ultra.
@k@konjurekatrinaou dont seem to know a single thing about the truth of MKultra. It’s not at all just about lsd, it still happens to this day, it’s about trauma based mind control. Listen to real mk whistleblowers. Political parties aren’t relevant here, all these groups are connected and hef/playboy mansion has been mentioned by survivors of mk.
@E@Emm@EmmaGodLovesTruth95there is zero credible evidence that Hef had anything to do with MK Ultra. And yes, LSD was the primary drug used in the MK Ultra program. Like Timothy Leary encouraging people to “Tune it, Turn on, Drop out”. Timothy Leary was an admitted MK Ultra/CIA Operative. Radical groups like the Weather Underground were specifically targeted and dosed with LSD. Which led to a bunch of urban terrorism in multiple places in the US. Rodin’s “The Thinker” sculpture, was bombed outside of a Chicago museum. A brownstone in Brooklyn blew up, because of bomb making inside. And the college girl whose parents owned the brownstone was on the run for more than 30 years. Charles Manson was a CIA asset/operative who got his LSD from MK Ultra doctor, Jolly West. Those are people who had verified links to MK Ultra. Hef had zero verified links to MK Ultra. And like I said, Hef was interested is drugging women into sexual compliance, via Quaaludes. LSD is absolutely NOT an orgy drug.
Also, I’m not talking about “Political Parties”. I’m talking about the CIA and FBI being run by Right Wing hawks, at the time of CHA0S and C0intelpro. And they absolutely WERE targeting Anti War protesters, Civil Rights activists, and who they perceived to be “Liberal” celebrities. The ClA absolutely had their hands in JFK’s assassination. But LBJ, also a Democrat, played ball and didn’t pull out of Vietnam. Kennedy had signed orders to pull out, before his assassination. And was killed before the order was issued. Lots of Democrats played ball with the FBI’s and CIA’s programs targeting what they perceived to be the radical left. The ones who didn’t play ball, like JFK and RFK, were assassinated. Sirhan Sirhan was a semi failed MK Ultra assassin. He didn’t actually shoot RFK and really had no idea why he was carrying a gun etc. But no, Hef had zero to do with MK Ultra.
Sondra…is a. MAN
It is so sick and twisted that he made a point to rob her of career opportunities 😢
The young Sondra looked much like Kendra to me. Anyone else see it?
Yes I said that too and several people came for me saying not at all. But I really thought she did.
Sex with dogs?!
That’s sick, so gross, and illegal.
Playboy is not the patriarchy. It’s the opposite.
The patriarchy is her father and mother protecting her from people like Gloria Steinem, the sexual revolution, and Hugh Hefner.
I feel sorry for her but she was terribly confused.
In the olden days did talk about manipulation and men who would take advantage of young women and girls, but Gloria Steinem promoted the idea that women should be able to have as much sex with as many men as they wanted to and to work in any job they want, just like men.
So, instead of women having the good sense to honor their own bodies, to protect their bodies from disease and trauma, they ran from the protection of their fathers and brothers who had been taught to offer them protection and to provide for their needs.
This was intentional.
And yet to this day so many playmates carry a torch for Hefner. Go figure