Identical twins Sandy and Mandy Bentley were born in 1978, in Joliet, Illinois.
In 1998, the beautiful blondes were the perfect age for 72-year-old, recently divorced, Hugh Hefner. The girls attracted attention wherever they went and Hefner met them at a Los Angeles nightclub. He was particularly smitten with Sandy.
Hefner didn’t take long to start dating both girls and move them into the Playboy mansion. In May 2000 they were featured on the cover of Playboy.
Hefner demanded loyalty from the women he dated and had a staff who kept him up to date on the girls’ activities
Sandy started cheating on Hef with a hotshot investment broker named Mark Yagalla. Word of her transgression spread quickly. The girls were immediately told to pack their belongings and leave, and they were evicted from the mansion.
Mandy went her own way, but Sandy moved to Las Vegas with Mark. The wealthy investment broker showered his trophy girlfriend with extravagant gifts, especially jewelry. Much later, Mark told “48 Hours” he “just wanted to make Sandy [Bentley] happy,” and that material things made her “very, very happy.””
The only cloud on the couple’s horizon was a pesky federal investigation into twenty-three-year-old Yagalla’s…
