Hef's Widow Destroys His Precious Legacy

Crystal Harris

Wow, it's been a while since we had a piece about the deathless love of Crystal Hefner, née Harris, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. HuffPo, Hugh Hefner’s Widow Says She Destroyed His Stash Of Nonconsensual Photos Of Playmates

Hugh Hefner’s widow, Crystal Hefner, has confirmed an unsettling claim made by Holly Madison in the new A&E documentary series “Secrets of Playboy.”

In the series, Madison — who dated Hugh Hefner from 2001 to 2008 and co-starred in his 2005 reality show, “The Girls Next Door” — expressed fear about breaking up with the magazine mogul and moving out of his mansion because he had nude photos of her he had taken on disposable cameras without her consent. Madison has also said in the past that Hefner had a large collection of these photos that he had taken of other Playboy Playmates as well.

“I found thousands of those disposable camera photos you are talking about,” Crystal Hefner tweeted Monday at Madison. “I immediately ripped them up and destroyed every single one of them for you and the countless other women in them. They’re gone.” 

Holly Madison

Madison expressed appreciation for Crystal Hefner’s decision.

Madison has been speaking about her experiences as Hugh Hefner’s “main girlfriend” for years (Hefner famously dated multiple women at once). In her 2015 memoir, ”Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny,” Madison said that living with Hefner at his infamous Playboy Mansion was full of “misery” that resulted in depression and thoughts of suicide.

“Everyone thinks that the infamous metal gate was meant to keep people out,” she wrote in her book. “But I grew to feel it was meant to lock me in.”

In “Secrets of Playboy,” which premiered its first two episodes Monday, Madison said one of the reasons why she stayed so long is because she was scared Hefner would use the nonconsensual photos as blackmail.

I'm kind of impressed that Crystal didn't use them for blackmail. 

Previous posts on Hef and Crystal:

Hefner first gets engaged to Crystal
They didn't need a pre-nup
An epidemic of Legionnaires Disease at the Playboy Mansion
Crystal pawned Hef's ring for a cool $90k
Their respective rebound partners
Initial reconciliation in June
And finally, their re-engagement
Their wedding

Her Widowing

Crystal Left Out in the Cold?

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