500 Former Playboy Employees Defend Hugh Hefner Amid Misconduct Allegations
Playmates—or models featured in the magazine's centerfolds, more than 270 former Playboy Bunnies—who worked as waitresses and hostesses at Playboy Clubs operating between 1960 and 1988, plus many former Playboy Enterprises employees and former staff of the Playboy Mansion, which was sold for $100 million to a private equity executive in 2016, a year beforeKimberly, Hefner's second ex-wife, said in a personal statement, "All people should be encouraged to share their individual...
Almost 90 percent of the signees are women. In addition, more than half of the people who signed the letter worked for Playboy in the '70s and '80s. Only about 10 percent of the signees were affiliated with Hefner in the '00s, when the company, whose flagship magazine was marketed to men, drew more female fans thanks to the success of