Hugh Hefner’s widow reveals what he was like between the sheets

Crystal Hefner has written about her life inside the Playboy mansion and surviving the “trauma” of her marriage to the notorious libertine.

Pippa Bailey

Feb 8, 2024 – 4.58pm

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Crystal Hefner’s favourite film is The Little Mermaid. When her late husband, Hugh Hefner, the Playboy tycoon and notorious libertine, proposed in 2010, he presented her with a music box. Inside was a miniature Ariel, who twirled to Part of Your World, and a ring. “I hope it fits,” was all Hefner said; he never asked her to marry him, and she never said yes. “It wasn’t a question. It wasn’t a choice,” Crystal writes in her new memoir, Only Say Good Things. “Like all things with Hef, it was a transaction.”