Hugh Hefner Secretly Filmed A-List Celebrities Having Sex at Playboy Mansion, Claims Widow Crystal

Crystal Hefner reveals some intimate details about her late husband Hugh Hefner's past.

According to an excerpt from her memoir Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, Crystal – who was married to Hugh for almost five years when he died in 2017 – claims he admitted to A-list celebrities having sex without theirs Consent to having filmed through “small spy holes” in his bed frame.

“When I asked him about it, he just shrugged,” she wrote, according to The New York Post.

“'But what are they for?' I asked. “I used to film a lot,” he said proudly. “VHS. I had hours of videos, hundreds of sexy tapes,” the excerpt reads.

Crystal claimed that when she asked Hugh if these people knew they were being filmed, he replied: “It's my bedroom. My house.”

Hugh allegedly told Crystal that he filmed “A-list stars” and made videos of “wild orgies, including with celebrities, politicians and business leaders, some of whom were married.”

“I find [the cameras] When I got there they were out of commission, but there…were these carved wooden plaques. And one of the panels on the right had a circular cutout,” Crytal told The Post.

In an exclusive interview with The Messenger in December, Crystal opened up about the good, the bad and the ugly in her life with Hugh.

“Hef is not a hero or a villain, he is a very complex person,” Crystal told The Messenger while discussing her new podcast, “Beneath the Surface,” which focuses on discussing a range of topics with her circle of friends, from relationships and mental health to gender rights.

Speaking about the “dark side” of life in the villa, Sahe said: “I feel like the book really shows how complicated it was, you know, like showing all your love and then controlling yourself feel, and it’s just confusing.”

She went on to say that although she has met people who relate to her experience, it may be difficult for most people to understand what that life was like. “I know this situation is very different than other situations,” Crystal continued. “But you know, I've talked to different women I know and they can relate to being controlled or being in difficult relationships. I hope that by speaking out I can help more people.”

Crystal also said that she was expected to participate in orgies.

She noted that she entered into these scenarios “without really knowing who I was. And I feel like if you don’t know who you are, it can be dictated to you.”

“I just adapted,” she said. “I was like the perfect person for Hef because I just went along with what he said. And I think that's because you don't know who you are. Once you find your own voice, you don't tolerate a lot of that stuff.