Barbi Benton

Barbi was 18 and a premed coed at UCLA when she met Hef on the set of his TV show, Playboy After Dark, in 1968. Over the course of their eight-year relationship, he introduced her to fame and Hollywood while she coaxed him into parasailing, skiing and globe-trotting. Together they epitomized a swinging romance. Barbi, who later became a country-and-western singer, starred in numerous pictorials.