Paige Young. Who is CiCi Huston’s brother David Shane? Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion. Part #3. 1974
In 1974:
Paige Young’s home in Westwood is only 10 minutes by car to the Holmby Hills location of the Playboy Mansion.
The police assigned to the area were on good terms with Hef and were welcomed at the mansion, say several former employees of Playboy in the Secrets of Playboy documentary by A&E network.
Former police were employed by Hefner as security guards on many occasions.
Police in the this same area would have attended Paige’s suicide scene and written the report. Word of this would no doubt have made it to the mansion in short order.
Possibly to the “female fixer,” previously mentioned, even before boss Hef himself.
I obtained a copy of Paige Young’s cremation documents, shown below.
Math figures show Paige’s age on mortuary paperwork. 1974–1944 =30.
Melanie Myers from the Daily Mail article told me 8 years ago that the “brother of Cici Huston,” had Paige’s “sex tape” in his possession and would not hand it over to Paige, despite her repeated requests.
And that Paige frequently expressed the serious mental anguish this was causing her.
…..fearful of a “sex tape” that “a relative of a major celebrity had made of her,” is how the Daily Mail phrased it.
The Daily Mail didn’t mention him, “he wasn’t a big enough name,” said Melanie to me.
David Shane, is highly likely the “CiCi Huston’s brother,” in question: the one who is holding on to Paige’s sex tape.
Shane was very active on the Sunset Strip social scene at the time, owning businesses there and being considered attractive to women, during the 1950s-1960–1970s eras.
Bob Shane, the oldest brother was originally Myron Shane, Jr. I can’t find anything else about him but he adopted the name Bob at some point. He is listed in Beverly Hills High School yearbooks as Myron Shane Jr. in the 1940s.
The youngest Shane brother Stephan, not mentioned in the obituary below, moved out of Beverly Hills and lived further north in California. He married, divorced and died young in the 1970s.
Obituary of apparent ladies man David Lawrence Shane.
He started a popular car rental agency, Hav -A -Kar, in the heart of the Sunset Strip. Hav-A-Kar was later sold to Thrifty, and David, as the property owner, saw the space become a Kenneth Cole store for many years before its current iteration, the Eveleigh restaurant. In the early 1960s David, who loved to cook, opened a burger joint called Alfie’s. It was a colorful fixture on the Strip and a veritable celebrity magnet. David decided to eventually lease the space in 1971 to the new owners who created Mirabelle, which remained steadfast on the Strip for over 40 years…… David was a jet setter and an avid outdoorsman. He attended USC for two years before transferring to the University of Mexico, in Mexico City, where he befriended painter Diego Rivera.
LAT obituary Oct. 2016
Myron Shane Sr. started Hav-A-Kar in 1959 per newspaper articles and apparently signed it over to his son David L. Shane. Below shows a public record easily found online.
The car leasing business he owned was closer to his Dad’s success in the car rental business.
The Shane brothers and a sister Celeste, came from a family of money and social standing. Celeste would go on to marry director John Huston as I have written about in other published chapters.
The Shane father was Myron, Sr. a wealthy business owner from Kansas City, he moved his young family to Beverly Hills in the 1940s.
Myron Shane owned a yacht named the “Celeste.” He rented it out to wealthy celebrities including Frank Sinatra.
Myron Shane also used his yacht ownership for charitable purposes:
Melanie told the Daily Mail in 2014, and me personally, that Paige “went out with several men.”
I guess that David Shane is one of those men. And apparently a guest at Playboy Mansion West.
Celeste Huston in a message to me several years ago, said Paige was “acquainted” with her brother David AND he was involved with friend of Paige, later Cosby accuser and attorney: Tamara Green.
Paige told Melanie that some of her boyfriends paid her living expenses like kitchen appliances and a dog run for her Akitas that she was trying to breed for an income source.
( Don’t know what happened to Joshua the Weimaraner or Hamish the horse)
However much Paige expressed her distress over David Shane and his refusal to hand over the “sex tape,” ultimately she made a mural about hatred and blame, towards Hugh Hefner.
From the Daily Mail 2014 :
“It was covered floor to ceiling with photos of Hugh Hefner, there were news clippings, magazine articles, everything you could think of. Written across it was something like ‘Hugh Hefner is the devil.” The whole wall was a shrine saying, ‘I hate Hugh Hefner,’ the crux of her anger was against him. That was the message she wanted to get across to me. She was pointing up at things, showing me around it. She’s put a lot of work into this, it must have taken her days.”
According to Melanie, Hefner and John Huston were mentioned in the suicide note as well.
“The cops had Paige’s suicide note and read some of it to me…the whole thing was about her anger towards the men who she believed had chewed her up and spat her out. The two men who got the most attention were Hugh Hefner and the director John Huston. I know she dated Huston for a while and had just gotten back from a trip to Ireland with him.” Daily Mail Dec. 2014
“Paige also vented against other Hollywood stars who had used her, says Myers.” END
Cover of People magazine from the end of 1974. 8 months after Paige’s suicide in LA and one month before Chicago secretary Bobbie Arnstein’s suicide in January of 1975.
