It’s not surprising to hear that there was plenty of drug use happening in the famed Playboy Mansion. However, a new documentary is claiming that people weren’t the only ones abusing substances.
One of Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriends, Sondra Theodore, alleges in Secrets of Playboy that a poodle owned by a party-goer got hooked on cocaine. “John Dante was Hef’s best friend. He had a dog Louis and this tiny poodle got hooked on cocaine,” Theodore claims. Dante is famous for directing films like Gremlins and The ‘Burbs.
“There were drugs everywhere. The dog could smell it from across the room. He had to lock that dog up when people were around,” she continued. According to Theodore, Louis the poodle would dip his nose into “huge vials” of cocaine placed throughout the infamous mansion.