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Hugh Hefner’s Ex-Wife Shares The Most Shocking Truth About Life Inside The Playboy Mansion

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Crystal Hefner opened up about what living inside the famous mansion was actually like, and the reality was far from glamorous

 

 

Hugh Hefner’s ex-wife has opened up about the part of the Playboy Mansion that she found the most disgusting, and the real answer is even more unsettling than what many people might expect.Crystal Hefner, who started dating the Playboy founder in 2009 before marrying him a few years later, moved into the sprawling estate long before she became his wife. She said her excitement faded as she settled into daily life inside the home and started to notice how neglected it really was.She later described the mansion as a place filled with dust, mold, and a lingering smell that made her feel sick over time.

 

 

The mansion itself covers nearly 22,000 square feet and dates back to 1927. Hefner bought the property in 1971 for $1.1 million, which would be roughly $7.45 million today. The estate came with a long list of features, including a games room, home theater, wine cellar, sports courts, a massive pool, waterfalls, the iconic grotto, and even a small three-building zoo.On paper, the mansion sounded like a dream, especially for someone stepping into such a well-known home. But not everyone who lived there or visited felt it lived up to the glamorous reputation it had in the media.

Crystal was married to Hugh Hefner between 2012 and 2017Jerod Harris/Getty Images
Sharing her own memories of the property, Crystal said: “This was a beautiful English Tudor home – and my family is from England – on five acres in the middle of LA.”“But over time, I saw that this place doesn’t really get cleaned that well and there’s mould. It just felt rundown and gross after a while.”“The whole time the mansion was breaking me down, one way or another. Now it was breaking down my health. The house was literally making me sick.”

 

 

“Everything was mouldy and dusty and it was just hoarder central in the mansion.”Crystal wasn’t the only person who felt the mansion’s condition was far from luxurious. Over the years, others close to Hefner have said the home needed major updates and basic upkeep that never seemed to happen.His former partner Izabella St. James also shared her thoughts, describing the mansion as a place that desperately needed a deep clean and complete redesign.

 

 

“Everything in the mansion felt old and stale,” she wrote in her memoir, Bunny Tales.“And Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.”

The couple in 2010Denise Truscello/WireImage

 

 

She continued by describing just how chaotic and mismatched the rooms inside the mansion were: “Each bedroom had mismatched, random pieces of furniture. It was as if someone had gone to a charity shop and bought the basics for each room.”“The mattresses on our beds were disgusting – old, worn and stained. The sheets were past their best, too.”In the docuseries Secrets of a Playboy, former valet Stefon Tetelbaum shared her own experience working inside the home, explaining that she often had to sterilize sex toys left scattered on the floor.

 

 

“I had to put on rubber gloves and pick up the dildos from the floor and put them in a special bucket,” she said.“The maids would take them downstairs, spray them with a steam cleaner to sterilize them and then put them in plastic bags. I would carry them back upstairs and put them back in the headboard.”A few years after St. James’ memoir came out, more than one hundred people who attended a mansion event developed respiratory issues, leading to suspicion that something inside the home was making people sick.

People have said the Playboy Mansion was in need of an overhaulFrazer Harrison/Getty Images

 

 

An investigation conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health eventually traced the outbreak to a contaminated hot tub on the property, where they found bacteria responsible for Legionnaires’ disease.

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