A biography for Barbi Bentonhasn’t been written yet.
“I do two things every single day - I go running and then I do weight lifting.”
“I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.”
“Hef is boring to cook for. He likes a total of four main dishes: fried chicken, pot roast, pork roast and pork chop sandwich!”
“Bill Cosby was one of the first people I met at the Mansion, shortly after I met Hef in 1968.”
“When I first came to Southern California I enrolled at UCLA in pre-med. My fathers a doctor. But the sight of blood turns me off, so I began doing television commercials.”
“I like low-cut clothing because I am a believer that one should emphasize their best points.”
“People recognized us together and our names were synonymous. Whenever you heard Barbi Benton, you think of Hugh Hefner. And I loved that. I was his girlfriend and he was my boyfriend.”
“I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don't care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don't care who made them.”
“I've lost a lot of fat and that's through weight lifting.”
“Most of all, I want to be known as Barbi Benton, the singer, not as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.”
“Hef was very protective of the women who went to the Mansion.”
“I want to keep my roots in Hollywood.”
“The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest, and they're playing my songs.”
“I'm very career-minded.”
“I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.”
“I'd like to play Vegas as a head-liner.”
“One never knows when the angels are coming to get you, but everybody has to go.”
“I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.”
“When I first met Hef, I didn't like him at all. I thought he was too old.”
“I was also dating someone from UCLA and also I had another suitor, Jimmy Caan. So it was between my college boyfriend, Jimmy Caan and Hef. And Hef won. Within a few months, we were exclusive.”