Let’s say I’m a hot blond woman. How do I get to live (not visit for a party, but actually live) at the Playboy Mansion? Is that a perk offered to every girl who poses for the magazine? Or are the girls there by special invitation from Hugh Hefner? Do the girls pay market-price rent or is living there free?
And if it’s not too inappropriate to say it, are the girls who live there required to…um, “entertain” Hugh as a condition for living there?
I don’t have a cite but I have read that they pay to live there and it is dormatory style living and quite catty to boot. Hef’s 6 girlfriends probably get a sweeter deal. Sidenote: If you could have six girlfriends, why would you pick six that all looked and sounded identical? (It’s a given the intelligence is the same)
Oftentimes potential models are invited to stay at the mansion - I’m pretty sure it’s mostly free. It’s a worthwhile investment from Playboy’s viewpoint - the cost of providing room and board for one person is fairly minor on the scale of the operation (and is almost certainly a tax deduction). It also allows Playboy to have a greater influence over the models’ social life - they’re available to “decorate” the parties at the house and they’re not out getting arrested for DWI’s or shoplifting the same week they appear in the magazine.
But it’s not an endless vacation. If you’re not Hugh Hefner, the actual living conditions are more like dormitories and cafeterias rather than mansion living. Inviting over friends, relatives, or other guests is not allowed without permission. And when Playboy decides you’ve contributed enough to the magazine and it’s time for some fresh faces, you’ll be invited to move out.
If you’re Shel Silverstein, you get to live there for free.
Silvertein is (well, was) my hero. That guy was cooler than an Arctic winter, and he seemed to have a thumb in every top-flight creative pie in the Western Hemisphere, from collaborating on screenplays with David Mamet (uncredited for Things Change, to writing lyrics for Johnny Cash (“A Boy Named Sue”), to submitting fiction to Playboy, and of course his own “children’s” poetry. That was one hip dude.
** somebodyElseWithNoName**, I think you’d have more fun at Derek Flint’s penthouse, personally.
Stranger
or Jimmy Caan.
An interesting side note on this. As a stockholder, I get the yearly report on the company, and who gets paid what. I was surprised to find out the Hugh Hefner actually pays rent for living at the mansion.
A token $100/year rent? Or a real market-rate rent?