'Secrets of Playboy' Revealed the Sad Fate of Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack

Feb. 9 2022, Published 9:fifty five p.m. ET

From an outsider's viewpoint, Playboy Bunnies appear to reside a existence of glamour and beauty, on the other hand A&E's 10-part docuseries Secrets of Playboy has been slowly peeling again the layers of what life on the Playboy Mansion was really like. (Hint: It wasn't good.)

There were a shocking amount of bombshell accusations made in the first three episodes of Secrets of Playboy. From alleged "cleanup crews" masking up the rape of Playboy Bunnies to Hugh Hefner reportedly being a misogynistic monster, it feels like issues could not perhaps get worse with each new episode. Unfortunately, they do. In Episode 4, we learn of the sad story of Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack.

"The Price of Loyalty"

Episode 4, titled, "The Price of Loyalty," heavily focuses on the alleged drug tradition at the Playboy Mansion — a tradition which took the lifestyles of Adrienne Pollack. David Reuben, a former investigator for the Cook County state's legal professional mentioned in the collection that Adrienne's dying by way of drug overdose was "the backdoor way for the state's attorney's office to get involved with the investigation into illegal drug use at the Playboy Mansion."

Adrienne's sisters Beverly Enright and Laurie Donohoo described Adrienne as "funny, fearless, and daring," and that she would remove darkness from any room she walked into. Laurie explained that Adrienne was hired straight away after applying be a Playboy Bunny however, according to Beverly, Adrienne quickly grew tired of residing in a single of the Bunny dormitories. She moved out and got a new position with her boyfriend, Jerry Pingitore, in August of 1973.

Beverly recalled seeing Adrienne just around the time Adrienne turned 23 that same year. A few weeks later, Adrienne's circle of relatives was notified through police that Adrienne had died. The cause? An accidental overdose of quaaludes.

Sondra Theodore, a former Playmate and one of Hugh's exes, corroborated that quaalude utilization was commonplace on the mansion ("they were used for sex"), however that you just needed to be cautious how much you took.

Lisa Loving Barrett, one of Hugh's former executive assistants, printed that quaaludes had been referred to as "leg-spreaders" within the mansion. "They were a necessary evil if you will."

Playboy Bunny mom PJ Masten additionally famous that so much of the Playboy Bunnies stated that "Adrienne and Bobbie Arnstein supplied drugs for the Chicago mansion for parties for Hefner and his VIPs."

Did Beverly consider that her sister Adrienne was trafficking medication? Yes.

In her interview, Beverly said that she believed Adrienne got herself blended up with the drug trafficking occurring on the mansion. She also recounted that their mother never gave up on looking for out the truth about what happened to Adrienne. She wrote letters to information stations and politicians, making an attempt to seek out solutions about Adrienne's dying. In one letter, Adrienne's mother wrote, "I hope whatever is hidden will surface: because things do."

Unfortunately, the circle of relatives by no means got actual answers about what came about to Adrienne. However, Sondra admitted a private fact that she's been ashamed of for decades: She have been a drug mule for Hef. Could Adrienne have found herself in a equivalent state of affairs, where she was careworn into trafficking drugs? Sadly, Adrienne is not alive to inform her side of the story.

New episodes of Secrets of Playboy air on Mondays at Nine p.m. EST on A&E.

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