'It's all from Bunnies': Inside the 'vicious' feud tearing Playboy alumni apart
LOS ANGELES — For the last month, PJ Masten says her Facebook inbox has been filled with death threats.
"You're a piece of s—. You're a liar. You're a f— this and f— that," Masten says, repeating the content of the messages.
She is no stranger to public attacks. In 2014, she alleged she had once been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby — a claim later echoed by dozens of women. But speaking out against nude magazine impresario Hugh Hefner has roused far more vitriol, Masten says. Not only for tarring the reputation of a beloved public figure but for breaking ranks with a tightknit community: Playboy itself.
"It's all from Bunnies," says Masten, referring to the waitresses whose uniforms at the once-famous Playboy Clubs paid homage to the company's mascot. "These are 85-year-old women running around with their bunny ears on, and I'm bursting their bubble. Being a bunny was the best experience of my life. It was a great sorority of sisters. But the filth and language they're attacking me with? I'm frightened of these vicious women."
Masten, 71, is one of nearly 30 women who appear in "Secrets of Playboy," a 10-episode docuseries that takes aim at the legacy of Hefner, the company's late founder. Since premiering in January, the series has featured Hefner's former lovers, colleagues and magazine centerfolds making damning allegations about
