{"id":135919,"date":"2024-02-15T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/crystal-hefner-on-her-marriage-to-hugh-and-being-trapped-in-the-playboy-mansion\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:00:03","slug":"crystal-hefner-on-her-marriage-to-hugh-and-being-trapped-in-the-playboy-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/crystal-hefner-on-her-marriage-to-hugh-and-being-trapped-in-the-playboy-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Hefner on her marriage to Hugh and being \u2018trapped\u2019 in the Playboy Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/v2o1dxErYZE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Hefner on her marriage to Hugh and being \u2018trapped\u2019 in the Playboy Mansion\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2o1dxErYZE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Crystal Hefner was 21 when she first entered the infamous Playboy Mansion in October 2008. Within months, she ascended its hierarchy to become the top girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, who was 60 years her senior, and went on to marry him in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>(Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe)<\/p>\n<p>But she quickly discovered the house was not the glittering sanctuary she had believed, nor Mr Hefner\u2019s Playboy was the place of freedom, expression and empowerment it professed itself to be. Crystal only left the mansion when Hefner died, aged 91, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Having made a promise to the Playboy tycoon to \u2018only say good things\u2019 about him, for years Crystal suppressed the truth of what really happened behind closed doors at the Mansion, and the lasting trauma it caused her.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Ways to Change the World, she tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about life at the Playboy Mansion as one of Hugh\u2019s three live-in girlfriends, how he made her \u2018feel small and afraid for so long\u2019, and why she\u2019s finally decided to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Silvia Maresca.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Watch more of our explainer series here &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXjqQf1xYLQ6bu-iixvoFTVsiXQVlVniX<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Hefner was 21 when she first entered the infamous Playboy Mansion in October 2008. Within months, she ascended its hierarchy to become the top girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, who was 60 years her senior, and went on to marry him in 2012. (Subscribe: https:\/\/bit.ly\/C4_News_Subscribe) But she quickly discovered the house was not the glittering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":135920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[139137,139138,129085],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-135919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-crystal","tag-hefner","tag-when"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Crystal Hefner on her marriage to Hugh and being \u2018trapped\u2019 in the Playboy Mansion | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Crystal Hefner on her marriage to Hugh and being \u2018trapped\u2019 in the Playboy Mansion for free, here on News ISC. 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