Where are Playboy’s Girls Next Door now? From Crystal Hefner’s farm life with new boyfriend Ryan Malaty, to Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson’s epic feud, Secrets of Playboy is only the start
- New documentary series Secrets of Playboy alleges that life in the Playboy Mansion was not all sweetness and light for the young stars of The Girls Next Door
- From ghost podcasts to real estate investments, to arrests for fighting each other, life has moved on for the former Playboy Playmates since Hugh Hefner’s death in 2017
The long-antiquated “Playboy bunnies” became an unlikely cultural phenomenon once again back in the noughties, when Hugh Hefner invited viewers inside the Playboy Mansion in the The Girls Next Door, also known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion.
The late Hefner’s harem of blonde girlfriends became famous to a new generation thanks to the E! reality show, which ran for six seasons from 2005 to 2009, with fans hooked on the jet-setting lives and wild partying of the Playmates.
The show highlighted the feuds and friendships between Hefner’s three main live-in girlfriends – Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson – with Crystal Harris (who later married Hefner) joining the fold.
Life in the mansion has taken on a different light over the past decade and thanks to the newly released docuseries Secrets of Playboy. We have learned that the glamour hid a toxic and misogynistic lifestyle that oversexualized the young models.
Despite this, some of Playboy magnate Hefner’s loyal fans still claim that these women knew better and should not blame the magazine magnate, who died in 2017 aged 91. Hefner’s son Cooper recently also tweeted that the salacious story was nothing more than “a case study of regret becoming revenge”.
So, what have the former Playmates been up to since the show, which of the housemates are still friends, and are there any new dramas?
Holly Madison
