Get a taste of New Zealand’s very best journalism and access all Herald Premium stories free for 24 hours. To give readers a sneak peek of the benefits of subscribing we’re bringing back some of our most popular Premium stories. This story was first published in January In a tell-all memoir, Crystal Hefner recounts her former days as a Playboy model and the third (and last) wife of Hugh Hefner.
The visible vestiges of Crystal Hefner’s days as a Playboy Playmate are mostly gone. The snowy blonde hair that once characterised the third and last wife of Playboy’s founder, Hugh Hefner, has become more dirty blonde. Revealing costumes have been traded for sensible clothes like beige cardigans.
But a closer look reveals a woman who is still acclimatising to life outside the infamous Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, which she left about seven years ago, not long after the magazine publisher died in 2017. On a recent afternoon, Hefner leaned against a pink banquette in an Italian restaurant in Manhattan. She appeared pensive: It had been less than an hour since she had read an excerpt from her new memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself , to a group of strangers for the first time.
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