He had married in January 1964 and by 1968 his two oldest children, daughters Erika and Erinn, had been born and Camille was expecting their third child, son Ennis. But good-looking girls were always welcome.Īnd Hollywood big shots such as Cosby - who was already a star after making TV history as the first African-American to star in a major drama on 'I Spy' - had no difficulty getting invitations, she added.Īt the time, Cosby was beginning to build his now-shattered reputation as a devoted family man. Hefner is accompanied by Barbi at the 1970 Academy Awardsīenton, who dated Hefner from 1968 to 1976, said it was hard for single men to get invitations to the 1920s-built Tudor-Gothic Mansion, with its famous game room and grotto. 'Everybody always got a free dinner and many people would just come for a meal and movie - Friday night was always movie night. 'It was not a place that people came necessarily to have sex,' she added. They were usually available, but not what I would call loose'. 'The girls were usually Playmates or their friends, all of them beautiful, often actresses. 'It was a place where celebrities could be with other celebrities - and lots of pretty girls,' recalled Benton. 'It was unusual for a family man to be at the Mansion - especially as regularly as Cosby was.'įor decades, dozens of A-list names descended on the Mansion off Sunset Boulevard. 'I didn't know whether he was married or not - I was 18 I wasn't about to ask him,' she added. 'Bill Cosby was one of the first people I met at the mansion, shortly after I met Hef in 1968,' said Benton, who has been married to property developer George Gradow for 35 years. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline from her home in Colorado, Benton, now 64, says Cosby would be at the notorious mansion nearly every Friday and Sunday, to meet up with his lover - whose identity, she says, has not yet been revealed.īut Benton says she did not hear any allegations that Cosby was a serial rapist as has been claimed by more than 20 women, with at least a dozen more said to be too afraid to come out publicly with their allegations. Still close: Hefner and actress Barbi Benton posing at the Playboy Playmate of the Year 2007 luncheon held at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, California.
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