• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Hugh Hefner's widow reveals 'disgusting aspect' of sex life with the Playboy mogul that still sticks with her

Home> Celebrity> News

Published 08:54 26 Nov 2025 GMT

Hugh Hefner's widow reveals 'disgusting aspect' of sex life with the Playboy mogul that still sticks with her

She played the same Madonna track every time they got intimate for one key reason

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

Hugh Hefner’s widow Crystal Hefner has opened up about her sex life with the Playboy mogul and some issues she encountered.

While Hugh Hefner built up a reputation of having a glamorous and enviable lifestyle living in the Playboy Mansion, his former wife has said that was far from the truth.

Crystal Hefner met Hugh when she was 21 and the mogul was 60 years old. The pair would go on to get married at the end of 2012 and remained married till Hugh’s death at the age of 91 in 2017, following a heart attack, with respiratory failure, septicemia and E. coli also listed on his death certificate.

After her husband’s death, Crystal wrote a memoir that gave up intimate details about their relationship, saying she felt 'imprisoned' in the Playboy Mansion.

Advert

Many of her points have been supported by former girlfriend’s of Hugh as well as other Playboy Playmates.

In her book, Crystal had a pretty damning evaluation of Hefner’s prowess in the bedroom.

Hugh and Crystal Hefner in 2014 (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy)
Hugh and Crystal Hefner in 2014 (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy)

She described the Playboy mogul of as 'less sex-savvy than some of the teenage boys I'd been with years ago'. She added that intimacy with him was ‘odd and robotic’.

Advert

She also said that when it came to get down to it she would play the same Madonna track so that ‘no other music [would] be contaminated’ for her.

Beyond this, she also added that there the mansion itself was disgusting and not nearly as glamorous as it was conveyed in pop culture.

Crystal alleged that the mansion was a state and said: “Everything was moldy and dusty and it was just hoarder central in the mansion.”

Former girlfriend of Hefner, Holly Madison, has also complained the intimacy aspect with Hefner when the pair were together.

Advert

Speaking on an episode of the In Your Dreams podcast in May, she said that she ‘hated’ having group sex Hefner and other people.

Crystal Hefner had issues with her sex life and the mansion when with Hugh (John Wolfsohn/Getty Images)
Crystal Hefner had issues with her sex life and the mansion when with Hugh (John Wolfsohn/Getty Images)

She said: “It’s a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room.

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

Advert

In Madison's own memoir she also claimed that Hefner was ‘controlling’ through their relationship and she was ultimately ‘miserable’.

Madison said that she noticed the other girlfriends were seemingly going through a 'similar experience' to her, as she could 'tell something was a little wrong, even though they were trying to have a great experience'.

Featured Image Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage via Getty Images

Topics: Hugh Hefner, Celebrity, News, US News

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

Advert

Advert

Advert

  • Ex Playboy Bunny opens up about the one 'disgusting' sex act with Hugh Hefner that still horrifies her
  • Hugh Hefner's ex Holly Madison makes shocking NSFW admission about sex life with the Playboy mogul
  • Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson reveals damaging impact their relationship has had on her sex life
  • Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison reveals 'disgusting' sex act she 'hated' doing with the late mogul

Choose your content:

an hour ago
2 hours ago
4 hours ago
  • Rothenberg/Getty Images
    an hour ago

    Kelly Clarkson shares rare update on her two children five months after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock's death

    The singer made a candid admission about her kids

    Celebrity
  • Instagram/@jesynelson
    an hour ago

    Little Mix star Jesy Nelson shares glimpse of her daughter after twins diagnosed with heartbreaking condition

    Jesy recently revealed the news that her twin daughters had been diagnosed with SMA Type 1

    Celebrity
  • Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Burberry
    2 hours ago

    Nicola Peltz removes all traces of Beckham family from social media as Brooklyn ‘told David and Victoria to only contact him via lawyers’

    The actor appears to have scrubbed the Beckhams from her social media

    Celebrity
  • Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
    4 hours ago

    Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir dead at 78

    The musician passed away 'peacefully, surrounded by loved ones'

    Celebrity