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Playmates and Playdates: Lorraine Nicholson’s Childhood at the Playboy Mansion

The writer-director looks back on swimming in the infamous grotto with her eyes open—before she knew what sex, let alone a sex cave, even was.

We would pull up to the Mansion in a cloud of doo-wop, the magic only amplified when the disembodied voice of the security guard rang out from a call box disguised to look like a rock. Anyone who has ever sat in a live television audience knows the feeling when you visit the set of your favorite TV show, which, until that moment, occupied a larger-than-life place in your mind. That upsets me.” Last year, he appeared on the podcasts of both Holly Madison and Crystal Hefner—two women who have written books critical of his father in which they allege mistreatment at the Mansion and the mental health issues that followed.

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