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  • 6/22/2025
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00:00The original Playboy Mansion was in Chicago, and that's where Hef held all his legendary parties.
00:12They could get a little wild.
00:15And the bunnies that worked at the Playboy Club in Chicago could live on the upper story.
00:20Aidy decided that she wanted to live in the mansion.
00:27But the Playboy life took its toll on Aidy.
00:33Adrienne didn't show up at work.
00:35She was found dead.
00:37We agreed immediately it was murder.
00:41The one person that benefited from her death, whether he wanted it or not, was Hugh Hefner.
00:47Hugh Hefner was the epitome of the evil society.
00:52What was she involved in that led to her demise?
00:56If she was trafficking drugs, there's something that could get somebody killed.
01:01We realized there's much more to this than meets the eye.
01:17In September of 73, a man called to report that his girlfriend was found unresponsive on their bed in their apartment.
01:29When the detectives arrive on the scene, they locate a victim who is lying in her bed, face down.
01:38She's got blood on her clothing, and there's also blood coming out of her nose and mouth.
01:45The victim is transported to a local hospital where she is pronounced dead on arrival.
01:51They don't know exactly what caused her death, but this is clearly not someone who just died in their sleep.
01:57The victim's name is Adrienne Pollack, and she is a Playboy bunny at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
02:06The very first Playboy Club was opened in Chicago in 1960 to provide a themed environment
02:22where customers could go to enjoy the world of Playboy.
02:29When people think of Playboy in half, they often think of L.A., but Playboy was actually started in Chicago.
02:34It's where Heff was from, it's where the original offices were, it's where the first Playboy Mansion was,
02:41where the first Playboy Club was opened, so it was really headquarters for a long time.
02:46And the Playboy Club in Chicago was unique because it was the one Heff and his friends would actually go to
02:51since it was in his home city.
02:54It was kind of like the test kitchen for the Playboy Clubs,
02:57and it became very popular in Chicago for the high society people.
03:02These bunnies became so iconic.
03:05It was such an exciting job to have and not necessarily easy to get.
03:11What Playboy was looking for in a bunny was a beautiful, personable girl who felt approachable,
03:18but not too approachable, like Adrienne Pollack.
03:29We never did really call her Adrienne, we always called her Aidy.
03:33We grew up outside Chicago, but it was a newer, growing, middle-class community called Niles.
03:41Growing up, we did a lot of things together.
03:43Both my parents worked full-time, so she would watch me after school.
03:49We would sit there and watch the old movies.
03:53A lot of times, they'd be romantic old movies.
03:57Prior to high school, she was, I would say, more of a homely-looking person.
04:02She went from having the buck teeth and having the braces and the brown, curly hair
04:09to having blonde hair and this beautiful smile and green eyes.
04:16And at that point, she'd walk into a room, and people would just want to go towards her.
04:26Aidy always liked to be around people.
04:30She did not like to be at home.
04:33She liked having fun and joking around.
04:35She was fun. She was very outgoing, very free-spirited.
04:41She just had a sparkle to her.
04:43When she graduated high school, she started working towards becoming a dental hygienist.
04:49But she wasn't making enough money, and she wanted a better quality of life.
04:54And then she met somebody that was going to be working the Evel Knievel motorcycle show.
05:04And she got a job as a promotional model.
05:09When she was there, there was someone from Playboy that approached her and asked her if she wanted to be a Bonnie.
05:15When you're working for a company like Playboy, it's only natural to kind of have your eyes open all the time for somebody who might make a great bunny candidate.
05:29I worked at the Chicago Club.
05:32At the time, Playboy was an excellent way for young women who were looking to find their own independence.
05:42I think she had thought about it, and then she decided to go ahead and apply for the job.
05:46Because it seemed like, at that time, being a Playboy bunny was glamorous and maybe a stepping stone into something else.
05:53And it was later on, in the early summer of 1972, where she was finally approved as a Bonnie.
06:07There was definitely a cachet that came with being a Playboy bunny, especially in Chicago.
06:13The bunnies that worked there would live on the upper story of the original Playboy mansion in Chicago.
06:19They called that the bunny hutch, and the girls would kind of dorm in those rooms.
06:24It was not mandatory for the Chicago bunnies to live at the mansion, but if they wanted to, there was that option.
06:34Aidy realized that it was a long drive for her to go from Niles to Chicago.
06:41So she had decided that she wanted to live in the mansion.
06:46And then it would be cheaper than getting an apartment on her own over there.
06:52The original Playboy mansion was where Hef held all his legendary parties in the 60s and early 70s.
07:01Life at the mansion was always very exciting.
07:06The parties were fun, and they could get a little wild.
07:11When Hef throws a party, the magazine comes to life.
07:13His Chicago mansion is a peeping Tom's paradise.
07:17Forty live-in bunnies are there to be enjoyed, but only by the eye of the beholder.
07:22If you wanted to go for a swim, there was an indoor pool.
07:27The underground swimming pool is kidney-shaped and filled with bikinis.
07:31Entertainment for the bar flies next door.
07:33You would often see Hefner in the living room ballroom with his pipe in his mouth and just being very casual.
07:48Sometimes after work, I would go there just to chill out.
07:53It was always fun.
07:54Living at the Playboy mansion, Aidy had indicated she met many famous movie stars at the time.
08:01Vic Damone, Warren Beatty.
08:04She met a lot of comedians.
08:06They always had a good time when Don Rickles came to town.
08:10Aidy had the excitement of meeting new people, doing things.
08:15She also did traveling.
08:17She went to different areas like Hawaii, Jamaica, Florida, Las Vegas, California.
08:25It was a different world for her.
08:27Something that she hadn't experienced before.
08:30It must have been so exciting to be surrounded by all these parties all the time, but that catches up to you pretty quick.
08:36Eventually, she started to get bogged down by the day-to-day grind.
08:45I think part of it was tiredness, traveling, and dealing with people that were not always so nice.
08:52The bunnies were like the celebrities themselves.
08:57The constant parties, posing for pictures.
09:00I imagine it got very exhausting for them.
09:02It's just parties, parties, parties all the time that can have a huge effect on your mental health.
09:09She had a lot of people that would try to take advantage of her.
09:13Living in the dormitories began to be hard.
09:16People taking her things or interested in her.
09:20Eventually, life at the mansion took its toll on Aidy, and she wanted to move out.
09:26Also, at the same time, she had rekindled her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Jerry.
09:38She had met Jerry in high school in their sophomore year, and they were dating through all of high school.
09:47They were like magnets.
09:51They would have their fights, they'd grow apart, and then they would get back together again.
09:57My family initially was okay with Jerry, but then as time went on, they saw that he was kind of a bullying-type person.
10:06He was aggressive, and they really didn't quite like him and were hoping that she would meet somebody else.
10:13But in the spring of 73, a year after moving to the mansion, again, that magnet drawing each other back to each other again,
10:29she was committed to being in a relationship with him.
10:33For the bunnies to live at the mansion, there were a lot of strict rules.
10:47Number one, your boyfriends cannot come to the mansion.
10:51She wanted to move out into an apartment with Jerry.
10:55My parents were not ultra-thrilled, but they realized that they didn't have any say in the matter.
11:04They accepted the fact that they were making a fresh start,
11:07but we really didn't see her all that much for the next few months.
11:11Then she did a surprise visit on her birthday.
11:26It was her 23rd birthday, and it was late at night.
11:29My parents were already in their pajamas, and I was outside.
11:33And she had come to the door, and it was her and Jerry,
11:37and we hadn't seen Jerry for a long time, and he looked quite a bit different.
11:43His eyes, to me, looked really unusual.
11:45They didn't focus.
11:48And to me, he was dressed kind of unusual.
11:52My sister was wearing this blonde wig.
11:55She had these red satin pants on, this sparkly tank top and high platforms.
12:02Even though our parents were in their pajamas, we took pictures together.
12:07But when I hugged her, I know I felt this boniness.
12:14It was no more like this, just a lean girl.
12:17She was really bony.
12:19She had lost an enormous amount of weight.
12:23But she said she was happy.
12:25She had indicated that Jerry and her were getting an apartment beginning of September.
12:31It was near Playboy, so she had a way of getting to Playboy quickly for work.
12:37She was excited.
12:39They were going to get their furniture, get their place set up.
12:42She goes, I'm going to have you over, Bevy.
12:43I'm going to have you over overnight, and then we could spend some time together.
12:47And I thought, wow, that's exciting.
12:49One morning in September, my son was going to be born at any time.
13:11And we still couldn't pick out a name.
13:13So I remember we were in bed laughing, picking out these horrible, stupid names for a baby.
13:20And the phone rang.
13:21And my husband went to answer it, and all I could hear was, oh, no, are you sure?
13:31Do you know how it happened?
13:37Then he came back in the bedroom and told me, and all I could remember was,
13:41sorry, this is the hard part, that she was dead.
13:57They didn't know when she died.
13:59They didn't have much information.
14:01But they indicated she was found dead in their apartment by Jerry.
14:08I was just in shock.
14:10I mean, we were all in shock.
14:10We couldn't believe it.
14:12We had all kinds of questions, and I just remember just feeling crumbled inside.
14:18I just, like, couldn't believe that I lost my sister.
14:22I mean, it's like, that's so traumatic.
14:25I was 18, and she's 23.
14:27How could that happen?
14:30And my parents, I mean, I can only imagine how they feel their child is gone.
14:40So the crime scene investigators are on the scene at Adrienne and Jerry's apartment.
14:51Adrienne's lying face down.
14:53She's got blood on her clothing, and there's also blood coming out of her nose and mouth.
15:00They don't know exactly what caused her death at this point.
15:03Because of the fact that this is a young 23-year-old, seemingly healthy female,
15:08you process the crime scene and treat it the same way you would if you knew it was a homicide.
15:13So the apartment is sealed off until further investigation will take place.
15:25Right from the very beginning, her boyfriend, Jerry, would have been the number one suspect.
15:29So the detectives interviewed Jerry.
15:35He was, as I recall, was kind of squirrely in the interrogation.
15:42He explains that he and Adrienne went to a concert the night before.
15:47And at the concert, she complained of a really bad headache.
15:53So they came home, and she took a cup of Excedrin and went upstairs to sleep by herself.
16:04There's no mention of any further contact with Adrienne after she went to bed.
16:09So the next morning, Jerry says he went and got some coffee and donuts,
16:12and he actually came back to the apartment, and he assumed that Adrienne left for the day.
16:19But at 6 p.m., Jerry actually got a phone call from one of the bunny mothers
16:23who was wondering why Adrienne didn't show up at work that day.
16:28And that is when Jerry says he located Adrienne lying on her bed, unresponsive.
16:39There's a lot of problems with Jerry's statement.
16:41The fact that her boyfriend is sitting downstairs while she's upstairs probably deceased
16:47and doesn't go to check on her, he doesn't really make any mention of it.
16:51Was there an argument or a fight that led to them not sleeping together?
16:55Or perhaps was he just giving her some space because she didn't feel good?
17:00Or did something else happen that night?
17:02He had credibility issues, and that would have also contributed to their, shall we say,
17:12suspicions about what the actual circumstances were.
17:15The police told us that it was 18 hours from the time that she apparently went upstairs to sleep after the concert
17:26to the time that he found her dead.
17:28We couldn't understand in those 18 hours that he wouldn't have had some contact with her.
17:33That would have been the first question the officers would have asked.
17:38When's the last time you saw her, and you're living in the same apartment with her,
17:41and you haven't seen her since the previous evening?
17:43That doesn't make any sense.
17:45So they would pretty quickly speak to the family and get more information about Jerry
17:51and about the interaction between Jerry and Adrienne.
17:55I told them I did fear Jerry, and I couldn't understand why she would go back to him.
18:01He was very, very aggressive, not just verbally.
18:07He did beat her up at times.
18:10What infuriated me was that my parents knew this, but they never reported this.
18:18They never went to the police.
18:20They never did anything to prevent Jerry from visiting because they didn't want to cause trouble.
18:30I do feel maybe something happened.
18:33Maybe they got into an argument when they got home from the concert.
18:37Maybe there was something more that happened.
18:41There was no sign of her being beaten or physical abuse,
18:45even though I recall there was some blood at the scene on the bed,
18:50but we need to do an autopsy to get to the bottom of the cause of death.
18:54When 80s service was held, Jerry did come.
19:04He was not excluded from it.
19:06And he was crying.
19:09He said, your mother keeps telling me, I know you murdered her.
19:14I know you murdered her.
19:15The next thing we knew is he was throwing himself over the casket, crying.
19:22I mean, it took two men to pull him off the casket.
19:26We were grieving.
19:29There were people that she went to high school with, relatives, bunnies that brought roses there.
19:38Hefner called the funeral home and gave Jerry his condolences.
19:42But he didn't talk to my parents.
19:48Hef definitely would have been saddened by the death of Adrian,
19:51but Playboy, as always, tried to distance themselves from any scandal as best they could.
19:56So it was never really commented on.
20:00There was also another gentleman there by the name of Fred.
20:04He said that he knew 80 and wanted to come and meet us.
20:08He was a tall, pale-looking gentleman, cordial, but saying really bizarre things to us.
20:21He said, I was one of the ones that found her dead.
20:24And I was with Jerry, and I was in the apartment.
20:28My parents and I had no knowledge that if anybody else was at the apartment at the time of her being found dead,
20:36we thought it was just Jerry.
20:38And then he indicated that he knew the real reason she died.
20:53The whole thing with Fred was just a very big surprise to us.
20:59We found out he was a man that visited Playboy often.
21:07He befriended a lot of the bunnies there, especially my sister.
21:11And he wanted to see the apartment because 80 said it was really cool.
21:17So the day she was found dead, Fred showed up at the door.
21:22And that's around when Jerry had gone upstairs and discovered her as being unresponsive.
21:33Fred was saying a lot of strange things to my parents and my sister.
21:38He indicated that 80 did not die of natural causes, that 80's death was planned weeks before.
21:46He was concerned about the fact that he knew all this stuff and was fearing for his life.
21:58He said that he was going to meet with my mom at a later date and discuss it with her.
22:02I don't know if he wanted to be a big deal or did he really know something.
22:08And then Jerry came in and he said he knew Fred.
22:14He was saying that Fred was an unusual character, that the girls were afraid of him and that they really didn't like him.
22:22But he just kind of hung around and he was at the apartment.
22:27Fred was questioned, of course, immediately and had a lot of wild theories and hypothetical situations and scenarios.
22:34He said that he was an expert of chemicals and said he believed that someone threw acid on Adrienne's face.
22:41If you have acid in your face, trust me, you are going to see the results on one's face.
22:47And there was no indication of that.
22:49Fred also said that she had been drinking at the concert.
22:53But Fred was nowhere near them during the concert.
22:56He didn't know what she was doing.
22:58So why would he even say that she was drinking heavily?
23:01Basically, Fred said a lot of things at the time, but he had no credibility.
23:13When the autopsy was completed, there was no alcohol detected.
23:18It also did not show any signs of strangulation or suffocation.
23:23There were no signs of violence, blunt force trauma or bruising.
23:27She had pulmonary edema, and that's just fluid that collects in the lungs.
23:32And a lot of times, this fluid has blood in it.
23:35And that would probably account for the blood that was coming out of her nose and mouth
23:40and the blood that was seen on the side of the bed.
23:43And it's a typical, if not common, thing that occurs when you overdose.
23:48The toxicology report basically indicated she died from an overdose of Quaaludes.
24:03A Quaalude is a pill that will make you very relaxed to the point where it's very easy to take advantage of someone
24:10because they basically don't have the inhibitions they would usually have.
24:15Quaaludes were a common theme with Hef and the Playboy Mansion from the 70s on.
24:20I know he told me that he liked them because, you know, it made it easier to get a woman in bed.
24:26In the 1970s, Quaaludes were basically party drugs, and they actually called them the leg spreaders.
24:35My parents didn't know my sister did drugs, so them listening to somebody saying she died of Quaaludes,
24:43and they're already confused about all of this.
24:47We weren't sure how she got access to the Quaaludes, how she took them.
24:53Law enforcement never really had drug units prior to the 70s.
24:59They said Jerry has a moral blame.
25:01That it was his lifestyle, from all indications, that introduced Adrian to the drugs.
25:07But this is, again, in the early 70s.
25:11You've got to understand that a homicide detective in Chicago at that time is absolutely swamped with cases,
25:17and unless he's got something to really grab onto and can solve a situation quickly,
25:23he has to move on to his next file.
25:25And when he had a drug overdose possibility, they closed the homicide or potential homicide aspect of the file
25:32and classified it as a drug overdose.
25:35At the time that had to be accepted, case closed.
25:45And my mother was angry because she wanted to see Jerry paying for this.
25:53Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence.
25:55We often have people who die from overdoses,
25:57and there are people that may be responsible for their death, but they're never charged.
26:03Finally, after the investigation was over,
26:10we were able to get into her apartment and get all her clothing.
26:20After going through her items, we found different things that were suggestive of the fact that
26:27Aidy was more involved in drugs than what we had thought.
26:30And that convinced them that now they have to ask more questions.
26:36We contacted Jerry because some of the things that we got were probably his.
26:42When he came, he started to reveal some of the information that we didn't have about Adrian.
26:49He said that Aidy was afraid and wanted a gun.
26:53And we found wigs in her belongings.
26:57And he says, yeah, she would wear those as a disguise.
27:01And we were like, a disguise? Why?
27:05And then Jerry dropped a bomb on us.
27:08Jerry said that the reason why Aidy did get the wigs and she wanted the gun was the fact that she was
27:21trafficking drugs through the Playboy Club.
27:26Jerry outlined a scenario where she was basically a drug mule for Hefner.
27:31We didn't want to believe him, but when we thought about it, the pieces of the puzzle were coming together.
27:40She did fly on the Playboy jet a lot.
27:45We're thinking, is that why she was traveling to Hawaii, Jamaica, all these places that she normally couldn't afford?
27:51Then in her apartment, we found letters that were from a bunny in England asking her to send lewds, that she needed lewds.
28:06No one's going to make mention of quaaludes in a letter and ask to send them some if they didn't have prior knowledge that this person can get it for them.
28:13There was a cartoon talking about quaaludes, talking about the individuals that were at Playboy, including Jerry, that were depicted in this cartoon picture, saying that, like, Aidy was the head of this process.
28:28We were questioning, well, maybe this is true. Maybe Jerry's right. We don't know his involvement, but apparently there was something more there than just a simple overdose.
28:43If she was trafficking drugs, that's something that could get somebody killed.
28:49I have heard a story from one of Hef's girlfriends from the 70s, Sondra Theodore.
28:54She said that she was sent out to go pick up cocaine for Hef, and she was, like, his 19-year-old girlfriend.
29:01So I don't disbelieve it.
29:03After that, my mom decided to talk to the investigators to explain what Jerry had told her.
29:10And they said, well, it's just a simple overdose.
29:13And she's, like, no, there's much more to this than meets the eye.
29:17But it went nowhere.
29:22So my mom decided to take things into her own hand, and she was very persistent about trying to figure out what really happened.
29:29And she's contacting anyone that will hear her because she wants to get to the bottom of her daughter's death.
29:37She tried to contact Fred again, and he was basically gone.
29:43He would not return calls, and he would not return letters or anything like that.
29:47But she didn't know of a senator who previously lived down the street from us in Chicago and contacted his office and talked to him and explained to him about what happened.
29:58And he agreed to send information to the Cook County State's Attorney, Bernard Carey, to look into this.
30:07Well, the state's attorney's office is a political office in a lot of ways.
30:11So if a higher-ranking official or politician is asking you to look at a specific case, the answer, of course, is we'll look into it.
30:25In the 70s, drug use was rampant.
30:28Many people died from drug overdoses, and I think the government wanted to stop it.
30:36And the way of doing that was to do the war on drugs.
30:40We must wage what I have called total war against public enemy number one in the United States, the problem of dangerous drugs.
30:48The war on drugs is really a number one subject for a lot of the political campaigns.
30:53They want to get a conviction, and when you get a conviction, what happens to your political aspirations, they get more realized.
31:00And I think that Hugh Hefner basically had an X on his back.
31:06Hefner was sex, drugs, rock and roll.
31:11And he was the epitome of the evil society by the conservative politicians.
31:17So if drug trafficking was proven as linked to Hefner, it would have taken down Hefner and all of Playboy Enterprises.
31:23And that was the goal of law enforcement.
31:25When I moved into the mansion, Hef always tried to present himself as being very anti-drug.
31:32And I kind of came into the situation thinking that was the case, and on our very first night out, he offers me a Quaalude.
31:39So I think that was kind of all a facade.
31:41The assumption that law enforcement took looking at Playboy was, we know there's got to be drugs there.
31:48We just got to figure out how to make a case.
31:50That's when the investigators recontacted my mom and said that they were going to look into Adrian's death.
32:02I was personally involved as the investigator for the state's attorney's office, and they said go over the case again.
32:13But in the bigger picture, I want us to look at the whole Hefner world and the Playboy Enterprises and find out if they were trafficking drugs.
32:24We realized that 80 was a smaller part of this particular investigation, but an important part in understanding what Hefner was involved with at the time.
32:43We ran an undercover operation.
32:45We went to the Playboy Club in Chicago and tried to solicit sources to see if there was drugs running in the clubs.
32:56But we had real problems breaking through with the bunnies.
32:59Staff wouldn't talk to us, and everybody would just deny anything.
33:05We needed one witness.
33:06If one bunny had come forward, one staff member had come forward, we could have had something.
33:12But we just couldn't get it.
33:15Hefner took care of everybody.
33:17He was hiding witnesses, protecting witnesses, and luring them all up.
33:23Then things got really interesting in March of 1974.
33:28As the state's attorney office was investigating, they learned that Bobby Arnstein, the top secretary of Hugh Hefner, was arrested outside the Playboy Mansion with cocaine.
33:41She was arrested by the feds.
33:42Not by us, the locals, but by the feds.
33:45The feds were already looking at the drug involvement, so we were looking at it simultaneously.
33:52Bobby was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
33:58Bobby Arnstein was one of Hef's social secretaries back in the 60s and early 70s.
34:03She was his girl Friday.
34:04She did everything for him.
34:07She was basically probably his closest confidant.
34:10Potentially, Bobby Arnstein was a missing link.
34:12She had the knowledge.
34:13They'd get Bobby Arnstein to talk.
34:16They could get Hefner.
34:16Police thought Bobby Arnstein might be a weak link that they could exploit to bring Playboy down.
34:30She figures because she is a first-time offender, she'll be able to probably avoid any jail time and get probation.
34:40So Bobby refuses to talk.
34:42But Bobby is actually convicted and sentenced to the maximum in prison, which is 15 years.
34:50The Cook County State's Attorney's Office then decided to open a grand jury investigation into Hugh Hefner and also the death of Adrian.
35:06Ideally, in the best-case scenario for the feds would be for Bobby to cooperate with the investigation
35:12and give information about Hef and about the narcotics distribution inside the Playboy mansion.
35:18That would, in turn, lower her sentence or at least give her the possibility of not spending 15 years in prison.
35:28They figured that would be their leverage against Bobby Arnstein.
35:34I'm sure Hef was very worried about what Bobby might say.
35:38Bobby was so close to him.
35:40Bobby would have known everything he was doing, everything that was going on in the mansion.
35:46And there's so much pressure on her that anybody could crack.
35:51I mean, he must have been petrified.
35:53The feds were trying to just squeeze her in every possible way they could to try and get her to testify.
35:59In fact, they said, well, we've heard rumors that there may be a hit on your life.
36:04They said, if you don't testify against Hefner, we can't protect you.
36:08Things could get dangerous for you.
36:11The pressure was the highest at this point for Bobby.
36:18And then...
36:19January 1975, Bobby Arnstein is found dead inside the Maryland Hotel in Chicago.
36:31She died from a drug overdose.
36:33Police suspected suicide.
36:35But it was the day before she was supposed to go to the grand jury.
36:39I had turned on the news and said she was dead, and I immediately called my sister.
36:48I think we were both a little surprised and a little shocked.
36:52But we agreed immediately it was murder.
36:56We never felt it was suicide.
36:58I feel like it was so coincidental.
37:00There was definitely conspiracies about Bobby being taken out.
37:05And if you look at it, the one person that benefited from her death, whether he wanted it or not, was Hugh Hefner.
37:13Names were going to come out.
37:15Trafficking was going to come out.
37:17I just think he was going to be destroyed.
37:19I think that Bobby knew enough all these years that she could take him down.
37:27There's a lot of rumors that she was killed to prevent her from testifying.
37:32There was no information that we ever learned that there was a hit out on Bobby Arnstein's life.
37:38It was just a bluff.
37:40Bobby committed suicide, and I'm absolutely sure that that's what it was.
37:44When she was found, there was a suicide note she had left.
37:50And in her suicide letter, she never, ever said anything to implicate Hefner.
37:57Right to the very, very end.
38:00Did she know about Hefner's drug use?
38:02Of course she did.
38:03Of course she did.
38:05But she was loyal to the death.
38:07Hefner bought time on all the major television stations in Chicago after Bobby died and gave
38:20a very emotional speech, blaming the government, saying, they did this.
38:26They killed her, basically.
38:28An already emotionally troubled woman was pushed beyond endurance, and she killed herself.
38:35When Bobby passed away, that must have been incredibly devastating to Hef and scary.
38:41I know it was a big regret in his life, but he probably wouldn't admit he felt responsible
38:50for it, even in a remote way, but probably did.
38:54With Bobby Arnstein's death, the Hugh Hefner investigation almost seemed to have vanished as
39:01well as the investigation into Adrian Pollack's death.
39:07And I think a big part of it was the media blitz that occurred after Bobby's death and Hefner's
39:14appearance on all the television stations.
39:17All of a sudden, he was somewhat of a sympathetic character.
39:21So now the publicity was going against the government at that point.
39:29And the most difficult part of that, quite honestly, was going with my partner back to
39:36Adrian Pollack's house and talking to her family and saying, I'm sorry we couldn't give
39:42you closure on this.
39:43It was just like over with.
39:46It was done.
39:47That was it.
39:49It's devastating to know every one of these people got away with it all.
39:56Nobody paid, but my sister and Bobby, really, they paid with their life.
40:02I think of Adrian's family and how tragic it is that they probably will never get answers.
40:11It must be so hurtful to have a loved one just brushed off as an accidental overdose
40:15when you're so sure there's something else going on.
40:20My mom wrote to so many individuals over the years.
40:24She wrote to whoever she could to try to find answers or to open this up.
40:28And she did write to Hugh Hefner, and I do have a copy of the letter, and I'd like to
40:34read it.
40:35The truth will be made known, and perhaps not in our time, but someone will be inquisitive,
40:42and a great movie will be made with Playboy as the background with the glitter, the dazzle,
40:48disillusion, heartbreak story that a sensitive director shall bring to the screen.
40:54I do not believe Adrian died in vain.
40:56God chose this time to shake up many young women who had dreams of grandeur, only to result
41:03in tragedy.
41:11Lisa Kale went from an unknown waitress to a Playboy sensation overnight.
41:20I never thought my safety could be at risk.
41:24I saw blood everywhere.
41:25How could someone look at her and do this?
41:28How could someone look at her and do this?