Hugh Hefner‘s ex-wife Kimberly is defending the Playboy founder in opposition to an onslaught from his widow Crystal … ‘trigger Kim suggests Crystal’s simply bashing Hef to make a buck.
Kimberly — who was married to Hef from 1989 to 2010 and had two youngsters with him — tells TMZ … Crystal, in her thoughts, has no credibility and goes on to assert it was truly her who was exploiting Hef whereas he was nonetheless alive, not the opposite manner round.
As we have reported … Crystal has a brand new memoir out about her marriage to Hef and their life on the Playboy Mansion, and he or she’s taken a ton of pictures at each … ripping his bed room abilities, calling their relationship toxic and backward and saying she felt trapped/hypnotized.
However Kimberly’s firing again on behalf of her ex-hubby, saying … “As a few people speak their version of their idea of events in hopes of riding a wave of headline relevance, and making a quick buck, we should all ask ourselves whether we want to live in an environment where people refuse to take accountability and use words loosely like ‘force’ and ‘survive’ to describe choices they made willingly at a certain point in their own lives.” Oof, speak about harsh!
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The best way Kimberly sees it … Crystal wasn’t compelled into marrying Hef or dwelling on the Playboy Mansion Crystal now despises. Kimberly tells us Crystal made selections that gave her “notoriety, opportunity, and money.”
Now that Crystal appears to have turned on Hef, who has been lifeless since 2017, Kimberly provides … “We should be wary of those who try to destroy things because they are no longer benefiting from them.”
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Keep in mind … Crystal’s additionally instructed us she felt like she lost herself in her marriage with Hugh, and he or she’s mentioned she needs to drop his famous last name as a result of it is not clear if it is serving to or hurting her today.
Kimberly says it is not truthful Hef’s not right here to defend himself … praising him as a “pioneer of free thought and expression” and a “leading voice behind some of the most significant social and cultural movements of our time, advocating for free speech, integrity, sexual freedoms, and civil rights.”
Backside line for Kimberly … she would not admire Crystal’s about-face, ending by saying … “If you want to talk about exploitation, this is exactly what these women have done with Hef in his later years and at the end of his life.”
