When her late husband, Hugh Hefner, the Playboy tycoon and notorious libertine, proposed in , he presented her with a music box. The parallels between the life of the Disney princess who trades her voice for love and the Playboy centrefold who lost her twenties to Hefner are clear.
I thought, wow, I want to be part of this powerful, beautiful worldโฆ This finally could be a place where I feel like I belong. Today, she divides her time between LA and Hawaii, where she owns a small farm.
At the time of his death, Hefner no longer owned the mansion, but leased it from the billionaire he had sold it to, and their prenuptial agreement gave Crystal no claim to his fortune.
Instead, she inherited a house nearby she never moved in as the paparazzi had staked it out and his retirement fund.
She works in property, and sits on the board of the charitable Hugh M Hefner Foundation. The Playboy trademark bleached hair is gone, as are the breast implants. The ideal Hefner women were slim โ Crystal had liposuction, and a nose job โ and their hair white-blonde with no roots showing. Also banned was birth control; if anyone caught an STI, Hefner had a private doctor on hand to treat them. Time at the mansion was regimented: Tuesday was game night dominoes and Uno ; on Thursdays they went out.
