The bartender

"I'd never seen a house with such a spectacular layout," Robert Falls remembers of his first time passing through the gates of the Playboy mansion. It was the mid-eighties and, as an aspiring twenty-something actor in Beverley Hills, money was tight – until a friend offered him the chance to make some extra cash as a part-time bartender at Hef's Californian castle. Recruited for its 'special events' – from monthly movie nights to the annual Midsummer Night's Dream party – Falls would continue to dole out cocktails to revelers for six years, serving familiar faces from Bill Maher to Judd Nelson.

"You needed a lot of bartenders at Playboy's parties," he reminisces. "It was fun, but it was very busy, and you'd have to work hard to get all the drinks to people just as they liked them. One time, I poured out a drink for Hefner and Kimberley, his wife at the time, said she thought I'd poured too much Jack Daniels (his tipple of choice was Jack and Coke). He took a sip, looked at me and said: 'that's perfect,' and walked away."