Finished the series.
Probably close to 900 women have appeared as Playboy Playmates, even more, when you include other models who appeared nude in "special edition" mags and online-only content and the bunnies of the various clubs, yet they find around 10 women to complain but hundreds have nothing but good words and have nothing to gain from it, Hugh Hefner is dead, the Hefner family no longer owns the magazine and current-day Playboy is ran by feminists and fags.
I won't discount that Hef was a nasty motherfucker and ran with nasty motherfuckers. He was a powerful white man and he ran with powerful white men and powerful white men take what they want. So I fully believe that some crazy and possibly illegal shit went on but at the same time I think there were women who went into Playboy with a clear head and got what they needed from Hef and the brand such as college tuition, plastic surgery, industry contacts and/or access to rich and powerful men.
Those are the women who saved their money, fulfilled their obligations and got on with their lives, and report good memories of the experience. A familiar name to BGOL would be Ashley Doris, who is an example of a woman who took a chance at a casting call and got selected on a whim and made it work for her, she's not doing OnlyFans, she's not returning constantly to Playboy to pose again or posing nude for other studios, she's living in Los Angeles and working consistently (with her clothes on)
And then there are the women who thought the party would never end.
You're only Playmate of the Month for a month and then it's the next woman up, if you can't spin the photoshoot and promotion into something that can work for you, well it's on you if you age out and end up as a drugged-out burnout.