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Former Playboy Bunny explained what being intimate with Hugh Hefner was really like

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Published 13:55 22 Nov 2025 GMT

Former Playboy Bunny explained what being intimate with Hugh Hefner was really like

Crystal Harris, who was Hefner's third and final wife, said she even had a curfew

Joe Harker

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A former Playboy Bunny has explained what it was really like to be intimate with Hugh Hefner, as she painted a grim picture of what actually went on inside the infamous mansion.

Hefner died at the Playboy Mansion in 2017 at the age of 91, and since then, a number of women have described what it was really like living there with him.

Several of them explained that the elderly Hefner laid down a series of rules for those living in his mansion, including stipulations on hair colour, nail colour and how they should keep their rooms.

They also spoke of how he kept records of all the women in his 'little black book', where he'd keep track of how often each woman was having sex with him and when they collected their 'allowance' from him.

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One of these women is Crystal Harris, who was Hefner's third and final wife, with them being married from 2012 until his death five years later.

Crystal Harris, Hefner's widow, explained how bad it really was at the Playboy Mansion (Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for GBK Brand Bar)
Crystal Harris, Hefner's widow, explained how bad it really was at the Playboy Mansion (Tiffany Rose/Getty Images for GBK Brand Bar)

She released a book, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, in which she dived into the details of what life in the Playboy Mansion was really like, and she made it clear it was anything but glamorous.

Crystal described how sex with Hefner was 'odd and robotic', and she found the old man 'less sex-savvy' than some teenage boys, explaining that she would always put on the same song to avoid other music being 'contaminated'.

She said that she had a 6.00pm curfew and each evening she'd have to sit with Hefner for dinner, which was always the same dish of chicken soup and crackers, after which they'd watch his favourite movies and then he'd demand group sex.

Hefner's widow said it was 'embarrassing' with all the girls having to wait for 'your turn' with a man in his 80s who 'still thought he was in his 40s'.

Crystal is not the only one of Hefner's former partners to explain what went on inside Hefner's bedroom, with Holly Madison saying that when it was the two of them, things were 'a lot more normal than you would think', but she absolutely hated the group sex.

Several former Playboy Bunnies have described the unpleasant experiences that went on in the elderly man's bedroom (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy)
Several former Playboy Bunnies have described the unpleasant experiences that went on in the elderly man's bedroom (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy)

“Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it," she said.

Madison, who was with Hefner when she was 22 and he was 75, wrote her own book Down the Rabbit Hole that the women in the mansion would try to 'get it over with as quickly as possible' and other women there advised her to ‘fake the f**k’.

She said that the elderly Playboy boss would watch porn, smoke weed and masturbate while the women in the room had to pretend to enjoy the experience.

Also, they would be dressed in identical pyjamas.

"No one was actually in the mood," she wrote, and that when she had sex with him for the first time she 'never had a more disconnected experience'.

Featured Image Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI

Topics: Hugh Hefner, Celebrity, Playboy

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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