After three days, the sisters — who she didn’t name — were found when one of them called a Bunny Mother at the Playboy Mansion and told them they’d been held at Cornelius’ house. Head of security Joe Piastro set out to collect them and found them “bloodied, battered [and] drugged.”
She alleged: ” One was locked in one room and the other was in another room. They were tied up and bound, and the sister could hear her screaming. There were wooden objects that you were sodomized with and she could hear her other sister being brutalized.”
In line with Playboy policy, police were not notified and the bunnies were advised not to speak out about their alleged ordeal.
Masten said: “The thing that was so outrageous to me, that made me so angry, was that no charges were filed and Don Cornelius’ privileges as a number one VIP were never suspended. He was back in the club the following week.
“These young girls, what they went through, nobody has any idea. My job was to pick up the pieces. I had to pick up the pieces of these kids. They were kids!
“I blame myself a lot, I have such guilt about not coming forward, but I knew that the establishment wouldn’t allow me to come forward. And who’s going to believe me? Nobody’s going to believe me.”
Cornelius’ son, Tony Cornelius, told People magazine that Masten’s account is an “unbelievable story without real proof” and “salaciousness.”
Following Monday’s episode of “Secrets of Playboy,” a disclaimer appeared on-screen, which reminded viewers that “the vast majority of the allegations” made in the docuseries “have not been the subject of criminal investigations or charges, and they do not constitute proof of guilt.”
