HUGH Hefner’s widow has admitted she cheated on him when they stopped having sex years before he died.
Former Playmate Crystal Hefner, 37, opened up about her intimate life with the late Playboy tycoon in her new memoir, Only Say Good Things.
The blonde beauty said that Hef– who was 60 years her senior – almost always preferred group sex with other women, even after they married on New Year’s Eve 2012.
But as he got older and more frail, Crystal explained that she became more of a caretaker and nurse than a wife or lover to him before his death at 91 from a superbug infection in September 2017.
Crystal wrote that when the sex “stopped altogether” in 2014 she felt “relieved.”
After years of keeping up what she describes as “the Playboy charade” for Hef, “there was no more going out, no more bringing girls home, no more performances.”
It was at around this time that Crystal said she was introduced to a “struggling jazz musician” she referred to only as Diego.
“We became friends quickly. And then… we became more than friends,” she wrote.
Crystal – who first started dating Hefner when she was 21 – said that being with Diego “felt like oxygen after being underwater for a million years.”
But after spending time with him, she still had to return to the Playboy mansion, where Hef would be looking at the clock and shouting at staff if she was late.
By this stage, the only intimacy between the couple was when she kissed his cheek or held his hand.
Towards the end, Hef needed help eating meals and going to the bathroom, with Crystal describing him as “wobbly on his feet” and “visibly frail.”
At the end of one of the Playboy mansion’s regular movie nights, Crystal says Hef fell “hard” on the stairs as he was going up to bed.
When she suggested he try using a walker, Hef replied, “Thanks for thinking of me, but no. It’s not for me.”
‘ROMANTIC, SEXY, AND ADVENTUROUS’
Crystal bought one for him anyway and later found him testing it out and cruising around the mansion with it.
She also noticed that he had started talking about death more often.
Although he had expressed a wish to be buried in a crypt he had bought next to Marilyn Monroe’s grave at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles, Crystal claimed he had no opinions about how the funeral should go.
She said that when he told her, “Do whatever you want, I won’t be there,” she realized he didn’t care because he wouldn’t be there to see which celebrities showed up, who cried, or how he was eulogized.
In August 2017, Crystal informed Hef she was going on what she described as her first real vacation in 10 years without him.
She said that he didn’t want her to go but she told him she would be back in one week.
She flew to the Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific with Diego, describing it as “romantic, and sexy, and fun, and adventurous,” and adding that “Diego made me feel young again.”
When she returned from the vacation, it quickly became apparent that something was wrong with Hef.
For the first time, he missed movie night at the mansion and refused to get out of bed.
A doctor ran a panel and discovered he had been infected with a highly aggressive strain of E.coli.
FINAL WORDS
Crystal said that before he lost consciousness while receiving treatment at home, the publishing magnate’s last words were, “I’m OK.”
She was informed that Hef’s best chance of surviving was if he was taken to a hospital, but he had not left a clear health directive on what to do if he was infected with a bug.
While Crystal was outside the bedroom debating whether to get him to a hospital, a nurse came out and said quietly, “He’s gone.”
Following his death, Crystal said she was “consumed with doubt and regret” and kept pondering every decision that had been made.
After the funeral, Crystal said things with her lover Diego quickly fell apart, in part due to her guilt over Hef’s death and because it carried “the stain of a secret.”
Last week, Crystal claimed in the book that Hef had a serious addiction to opiates and his staff worried he would die of an overdose, The U.S. Sun revealed.
The U.S. Sun also told how Crystal described Hef as a “narcissist” who “only ever thought of himself.”
And yesterday The U.S. Sun exclusively reported that Crystal blasted Dr. Phil McGraw as “sinister” and a “bad actor” for advising her to leave the Playboy mansion.
Only Say Good Things is out today.
