Did Bill Cosby discover Quaaludes from Hugh Hefner, who reputedly once called the pills ‘thigh openers”?
That’s the implication from “Bill Cosby: An American Scandal,” a documentary set for airing Monday night on Investigation Discovery.
According to US magazine, “American Media Inc.’s one-hour special about the rise and fall of the disgraced actor, explores his fascination with the Playboy Mansion and his reported use of Quaaludes.”
The story says Cosby’s former “pal” and Playboy founder Hefner allegedly expressed his fervor for the drug in the past.
“As Hef’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison wrote in her 2015 memoir, ‘Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny,’ the magazine editor, now 91, offered her a Quaalude on her first night out clubbing with him.
“When Madison, now 37, told Hefner that she didn’t do drugs, she claimed he replied, ‘Usually I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ’70s they used to call these pills ‘thigh openers.'”
Dylan Howard of the National Enquirer added: “A number of women had come forward to claim that Hefner himself has referred to them as thigh-openers, a suggestion that they would lead a woman into bed.
“So it’s not out of the realm of possibility to think that Bill Cosby could have become fascinated with the use of Quaaludes under the Playboy Mansion’s roof.”