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Thanks to some wild conspiracies being bandied about on TikTok recently, one of the heirs to the Hugh Hefner’s fortune, Marston Hefner, has revealed that there were, in fact, tunnels underneath the famous (or is it infamous?) mansion owned by his father.
The stories surrounding the mansion and its offshoot “shadow mansions” have been very troubling of late.
A 2022 A&E documentary series on Hugh Hefner and his empire depicted an environment of unchecked debauchery and cult-like behavior in and around the mansion over the years.
Former star of the E! reality show Girls Next Door, Holly Madison called her time serving as Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend “a very Stockholm syndrome kind of thing.”
Another one of Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriends, Sondra Theodore, called Hugh Hefner a “predator” who secretly “recorded celebs and athletes having sex with other women in his bedroom” in order to hold power over them.
So it is certainly understandable why there have been conspiracies about there possibly being tunnels underneath the mansion that could have been used for nefarious purposes.
Marston Hefner has heard those rumors and took to Instagram on Wednesday to debunk them. He also shared a copy of the tunnel blueprints.
“Yes there were tunnels under the mansion no they werent for qanon sex slaves but for employees and laundry,” he wrote, adding the hashtags #truth #truth #lovethetruth#babies #whataboutme #wasiinthetunnels.
A 2015 article in Esquire previously discussed the tunnels underneath Hugh Hefner’s mansion.
The rumor at the time was that tunnels led to other celebrity homes owned by the likes of Jack Nicholson, James Caan and Warren Beatty.
One alleged mansion staffer even claimed they heard the tunnels had been closed up in 1989 – the year Hefner married Kimberley Conrad.
It turned out, however, the source article for that story, complete with photos, was all supposedly nothing but a prank.
Interestingly, the exact same blueprints used in that prank story are the same ones Marston Hefner just claimed were real.
So what’s the real truth? Much like most things related to Hugh Hefner, we may never know.