Barbi Benton may not be a household name, but it’s definitely a name worth knowing. At just the age of 16, Benton started modeling and two years later, she was at Playboy. From there, her whirlwind romance with the one and only Hugh Hefner put her on the map, and Barbi Benton’s face was one everyone recognized. Now we’ve decided to take a look at Benton’s extraordinary life and present you with some juicy facts about the Playboy model, actress, and singer that you may not have known before. Ready?
Barbi Benton
The First Time
About five decades ago, Barbi Benton and Hugh Hefner met for the first time. Little did Benton know just how much her life was about to change. At the time, Benton was a student at UCLA and she was studying during a break on set. “He came up to ask me what I was so diligently working on,” she said. “I told him I was studying for school. He liked the fact that I was a co-ed and that I went to UCLA. We were talking about my schooling and what I was studying, and he asked me if I would go out with him.”
The First Time