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Crystal Hefner Reveals She Was Never 'In Love' with Hugh — and Details Playboy Mansion Life in Book

Crystal Hefner writes about life in the Playboy Mansion and what Hugh Hefner was really like in her new memoir, 'Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself'

Now, the 37-year-old entrepreneur, advocate and widow of Hugh Hefner is throwing open the doors to the Playboy Mansion, giving those who think they knew her a look inside her former home — not to mention her relationship, and her heart. According to Crystal, the ultimate party boy had strict rules about everything, right down to making his girlfriends come to him each week to collect their “allowance” that he doled out in crisp bills. Even though it looked decadent onscreen, Playboy Mansion was more frat house than fancy, Crystal tells PEOPLE: “This place doesn't really get cleaned that well and there's mold, and it just felt just kind of run down and gross after a while.

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