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Shanna Moakler Shares Her Experience with Hugh Hefner: ‘The Man Is Dead. He Can’t Defend Himself’ (Exclusive)

Shanna Moakler tells PEOPLE about her time with Hugh Hefner and touches on thoughts about his legacy after death.

Hefner, who died on Sept. 27, 2017, at 91 due to sepsis brought on by an E. coli infection, was posthumously accused of rape by several women previously affiliated with Playboy in A&E's docuseries Secrets of Playboy, which details firsthand accounts of alleged rapes by the mogul, highlighting the story of a Playmate of the Year who was "brutalized" and "psychically destroyed" by Hefner, per Mansion insiders. I didn't have any emotional attachment to him anymore in any way," Madison — who went public with the trauma she faced after dating Hefner in her book Down the Rabbit Hole — said about her experience. And earlier this year, Kendra Wilkinson told PEOPLE she "smoked a lot of weed" the night Hefner died.

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