The last wife of the Playboy mogul has written a memoir, detailing the hardships of their 10 years together.
Almost six years ago, at the end of September 2017, Hugh Hefner, the man who built a multi-million dollar empire around sex, the female body, parties and orgies has died at his home, surrounded by Playboy bunnies, fans and relatives. Just two weeks later, a movement was born that would revolutionize feminism and our views of actresses and models: MeToo. For Hefner it was too late to experience it. But as his third and last wife, 60 years his junior, notes, “he lost it just in time.”
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Crystal Hefner, now 37 years old, he has spent a lot of time in reflection and healing. Hefner’s widow has given several interviews (with US Weekly, the New York Post and the UK’s Daily Mail) in which she described how she lived those six years without her husband and previewed her memoir, which will be released in January and they will have a title “Only Say Good Things”.
And while he admits he was on “Team Hef,” he can no longer talk about the good stuff. Because there was also a lot of bad, he explains. So much so that if she succeeds in getting her doctorate in psychology, she has vowed to drop the last name Hefner and return to her maiden name: she will be Dr. Crystal Harris. “If I achieve this, it’s all over. Goodbye”.
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Crystal Hefner admits she had her happy moments during her relationship with the mogul, who also left her in a comfortable financial situation. She also realized that her breast implants were too large and had them removed. “That chest was too big. I looked like an inflatable sex doll from China. I felt like I was wearing a suit,” she points out. She also confessed that she hated having to dye her hair blonde, that she didn’t like wearing heels or sexy clothes (the only thing she keeps from those days is her “bunny” outfit) and that she was, literally , “locked” psychologically.
Her husband did not allow her to leave the house. He was never able to travel, not even to the beach or Disneyland, as he wished. At the Los Angeles mansion, there was a six o’clock curfew. For dinner: chicken soup and cheese. Afterwards, either a classic movie session or an orgy. “It was embarrassing,” he told the Daily Mail. “I don’t know how many people were in our bedroom at the same time, but it was a lot. “No one really wanted to be there, but I think Hefner still thought he was 40.”
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On Sundays there were always orgies, with up to 200 women in the mansion, where its owner took Viagra pills, one after the other, so much so that he went deaf in one ear! “Hef always said he’d rather be deaf and still be able to have sex. Weird,” he reveals.
The couple met when she was just 21 and invited to a Halloween party at the famous house. Born in Arizona, Crystal moved with her parents to Birmingham, UK when she was very young, where they lived in a house above the family pub. Her father was a singer and opened for some of the stars of the day, but he died when she was 12, leaving her and her mother in a precarious situation. He studied psychology in San Diego, California, and when he managed to get into this party, he found something to talk about with Hefner: he had studied for the same degree 40 years before he was born. That night they became lovers, a moment he remembers as “nothing of note.” They married on New Year’s Eve 2012, when she was 26 and he was 86, after signing a prenuptial agreement. They were going to do it six months earlier, but she had backed out five days before the wedding.
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When Crystal entered the Playboy mansion, she was dazzled. And he moved right away. She gave up her studies and focused her life on Hugh Hefner. The age difference fascinated everyone. “Everybody had questions. Mainly anatomical”, she says today with some sarcasm. Although “the hardest part of trying to be in a relationship with Hefner was being judged harshly. Rightfully so,” he admits.
She devoted herself to his care, especially at the end of his life, and cultivated a cordial relationship with Hefner’s four children, born from two previous marriages. Between all these, they have shared an inheritance estimated at around 40 million euros.
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Hef, as she affectionately calls him, made her think she “belonged” to him, coming from a broken family. “You depend on the kindness of others and you make yourself small to try to fit in. You have no power. Then I met Chief. At first, the Playboy mansion looked like a retreat. It was not. But then it’s either you stick with it or you leave, and I didn’t feel like I had anywhere else to go or that I could make something of myself.” That’s why she moved in with twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, 18, who were also handpicked by Hugh Hefner to be part of his ‘team’, which was ‘devastating for us girls but game for him’, according to the tycoon’s widow.
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In a documentary released a year ago, Karissa accused the tycoon of rape and confessed to having an abortion after becoming pregnant at the age of 19. Crystal explained that during a house search, she found several pictures of nude women and decided to destroy them. It’s what she would like them to do with her own images, she argues.
After Hefner’s death, his widow went so far as to refer to him as “an American hero.” “It changed my life, it saved my life. He made me feel loved every day,” she said after burying him in a grave next to Marilyn Monroe.
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Today, it doesn’t feel quite the same way. “All I can say is that if you come from a happy, perfect, loving family, you don’t usually end up with someone who was already 60 when you were born,” she said in interviews. “I look back and feel sorry for myself. Unfortunately, whoever has the money makes the rules. Right?” he adds.
Crystal kept her promise to only say good things for five years. “The book is about healing from a toxic environment,” he told the NY Post. In interviews she describes her husband as “a narcissist and a misogynist…he was a very complicated man. But it also did a lot of good. It helped many. At the same time, he hurt a lot of people, in ways he didn’t realize,” she concludes.
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