Crystal Hefner bashes Hugh’s hefty ‘Girls Next Door’ salary — claims she made nothing
Crystal Hefner is not playing around and revealing the pay disparity between herself and her former beau.
Hugh Hefner’s widow disclosed the insane amount of money he made while filming his television shows “Girls Next Door” and “Marrying Hef.”
According to the former playmate’s brand-new book “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” Hefner made a whopping $400,000 an episode while Crystal — who made her first appearance on the show’s sixth and final season — made nothing.
The book, which hit shelves on Tuesday, also claims that Hefner walked away with an incredible $800,000 paycheck for the canceled Lifetime docu-special “Marrying Hef” when Crystal was only paid $2,500.
The Post reached out to Crystal for additional comment.
Hefner’s payday discrepancy is not the only bombshell set to explode in Crystal’s memoir.
In one part of the book, Crystal divulged the final words that her millionaire hubby said while on his deathbed on Sept. 27, 2017.
According to Crystal, Hefner’s final words to her came as he was being injected with antibiotics through an IV.
“I’m OK,” the millionaire reportedly told her before dying at the age of 91.
Hefner’s death, which was initially labeled as “natural causes,” was actually caused by an “aggressive” E. coli infection that was “highly resistant to antibiotics and difficult to treat.”
Crystal also revealed that she was actually never “in love” with the Playboy publisher.
“At the time I thought I was on top,” she said. “I thought, ‘Wow, if I just like everything that he likes and do all the things that he wants me to do, then I’m the favorite.’ And I was, but I just lost myself in the process,” Crystal told People prior to the release of the book.
Crystal — who moved into the Playboy mansion to be with Hefner and his female entourage in 2008— later revealed that he proposed to her on Christmas Eve.
Despite feeling conflicted over the idea of marrying a much older man, Crystal said yes to Hefner only to back out five days before the couple tied the knot in June 2011.
Crystal told the outlet that after leaving the mansion, she resumed her relationship with Dr. Phil’s son Jordan McGraw.
After a while, Crystal ultimately returned to Hugh at the Playboy Mansion.
“I realized I was dealing with a really big power imbalance,” Crystal said. “It seemed like a world of success and fantasy, but everyone’s having to sleep with an 80-year-old. There’s a price. Everything has a price.”
Hefner and Crystal later said “I do” on New Year’s Eve 2012.
The bombshell-riddled memoir also details the intense regimen that was imposed by Hefner on Crystal and his other “girlfriends.”
“Our nail polish couldn’t be anything but some neutral color, no French manicure,” said Crystal adding that Hefner would often mandate each of the other Bunnies to come to him in order to collect their allowance.
Hefner’s widow also recalled a moment when the man made a sneering comment about how he could see the roots of her natural brown hair.
“So I’d have to go bleach it and it would burn my scalp and I’d have blisters,” she recounted. “But for some reason, I thought this was all normal and that’s what it meant to be seen as beautiful in Hef’s eyes.”
Crystal exclusively revealed to The Post the meaning behind the title of her book in July 2023.
The name allegedly came to her when she recalled “a conversation with Hef and he let me know: ‘Once I go, when I’m gone, please only say good things about me.’”
“I kept that promise for the last five years. After going through a lot of therapy and healing, I realized that I needed to be honest about my time there,” she said at the time. “The book is about healing from a toxic environment.”
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