"[2] Bogdanovich says the book was meant to be delivered to William Morrow in August 1982 "but new facts kept coming to light and so it was delayed.

A review in People magazine called the book: [A] sometimes provocative but relentlessly self-serving version of Stratten's life and death ... blames Hefner's hedonistic philosophy for Dorothy's death and just about all of society's ills except the size of the federal deficit ... Hefner is portrayed as an insensitive, petty sexmonger and egomaniac.

Bogdanovich insists that a postmidnight interlude in a hot tub between Hef and a reluctant Dorothy irreparably damaged her psyche.

Don’t tell me about you banging her in the hot tub!”"[7] Private eye Marc Goldstein later sued Bogdanovich for $10 million for being libeled in the book.

[9][10] In 1985, Hugh Hefner suffered a stroke and blamed it in part on stress caused by Bogdanovich's allegations against him in the book.