Jenny McCarthy recalls ‘gross celebrities’ attending Playboy mansion parties calling it ‘Viagra central’

If the shock of seeing the sorts of items from publisher Hugh Hefner’s notorious Playboy mansion being sold at auction wasn’t enough for you, McCarthy has since lifted the lid further on what went on at the party house.

The 51-year-old had been working in a Polish grocery store for seven years before she ended up getting her big break with Playboy and going to the infamous mansion parties with some questionable celebrities.

Appearing on Monday’s episode (18 March) of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, McCarthy explained she was ‘asked to be a part’ of TV special Secrets of Playboy which first came out in 2022 which saw former so-called bunnies speak out about alleged abuse they suffered.

“We were at a different time I think,” she says, noting Hefner was also married at the time she ended up in the mansion, so she was there when ‘his kids were throwing bacon at [her] in high chairs’.

McCarthy recalls there was ‘so much sex going on with like gross celebrities in the grotto areas’.

“But also, the guys were, like, over 70 years old […] There was only hot women and the ugliest dudes […] They were really really old, it was like Viagra central.”

McCarthy’s sharing of her experiences closely echo those of Audra Lynn who told UNILAD she similarly experienced some ‘crazy’ parties where people would ‘have sex in the Grotto and the security would have to come and break it up’.

She told the Mirror: “We were given $1,000 a week as an allowance. You had a 9 o’clock curfew, you were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was, like, a family holiday.”

Indeed, fellow former bunny Jenna Bentley added if women who lived at the mansion or in the ‘Bunny house’ next door broke curfew, they were threatened with ‘sleeping on the lawn’ and that none of the bunnies were allowed boyfriends either.