Life at the Playboy Mansion simply wasn’t all fun, games, glitz, glam — and bunny ears.
Hugh Hefner’s widow, Crystal Hefner, will release her bombshell memoir “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself” on Tuesday, and she gets candid about her past life as the infamous magazine publisher’s wife.
Her tell-all is full of tales about being the late Playboy founder’s partner, as well as the tough rules his girlfriends had to follow.
Ahead of the book’s release, the 37-year-old spoke to People and gave a glimpse of the no-nos she was scolded for by Hefner.
The CEO — who died in 2017 at the age of 91 — would often point out to her when her natural brown hair would become dark at the roots.
This signaled to Crystal that it was time for her to go back to the salon to turn it back to blond.
“So I’d have to go bleach it and it would burn my scalp and I’d have blisters,” she told the outlet.
“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,” she continued.
The former Playmate added how restrictive the lifestyle was for herself and other Playboy Bunnies in the infamous mansion.
Crystal explained that Hefner would give each of his “girlfriends” an allowance that he handed to them in neat, crisp bills.
Even her nails couldn’t be anything but perfect, and she had to have a “neutral color, no French manicure.”
Crystal moved into Hefner’s residence in October 2008 when she was 21. They’d go on to marry in 2012.
Another one of his former lovers, Izabella St. James, appeared in the 2022 A&E docuseries titled “Secrets of Playboy.”
St. James, 48, became one of his official girlfriends in 2002 when she was 26, and they were together for two years.
She moved into the abode after she finished law school and recalled the tight rules she had to obey if she wanted to live there.
“We had to be home by 9 p.m., so we had a curfew,” she said in the documentary. “Hef didn’t want girls to go out and party without him.”
“I suppose he didn’t want us to have the opportunity to be unfaithful, which leads to the second rule. You don’t cheat on Hef. He’s your boyfriend regardless of the level of intimacy. He took that very seriously. You had to be respectful.”
“There was no mingling with the staff. You weren’t supposed to be hanging out with the butlers,” the native of Poland claimed.
According to the doc, the women also couldn’t wear red lipstick, and Hefner would give $1,000 allowances weekly so his roommates could buy new clothes.
Even more, every woman had to have blond hair regardless of their natural locks and NDAs had to be signed once they entered the mansion.
