Speaker 1: We've been talking about the incredible story of Krystal Hefner.
Speaker 1: So Crystal Hefner, she was Hugh Hefner's wife, sixty years
Speaker 1: younger than her. And if you're not play yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with who Hugh Hefner is, he was
Speaker 1: the Playboy tycoon. He started and he organized and he
Speaker 1: ran everything to do with the Playboy, the cigar.
Speaker 2: He had those silk gowns and the sailor's hat, captain's.
Speaker 1: Hat, and all the little bunny is and the little
Speaker 1: bunny tails.
Speaker 3: It graces me out now that I think about it,
Speaker 3: isn't it? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, we had the most incredible chat this week
Speaker 1: on my fun Cut podcast with Crystal Hefner, who is
Speaker 1: Hugh's widow, and she really lifted the curtain behind some
Speaker 1: of the I mean, I don't even know how you
Speaker 1: just like the trauma, the atrocities, like some of the
Speaker 1: things that she experienced while she was married to him
Speaker 1: and part of the Playboy mansion. But one thing that
Speaker 1: she shared with us I think was so interesting and
Speaker 1: so many people would not know this about how Hugh Hefner,
Speaker 1: how he actually got into and how he became famous,
Speaker 1: how playboy mansion started and it has to do with
Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe. So have a listen to this.
Speaker 3: Speaking of financial abuse, talk to us about what heif
Speaker 3: did to Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 4: Oh, that is hard for me because his whole empire
Speaker 4: was started with the calendar photos of Marilyn Monroe. He
Speaker 4: bought calendar photos that people heard of, but they had
Speaker 4: never seen of Marilyn Monroe. She was nude, she had
Speaker 4: no say, she made no money, and that created Heff's
Speaker 4: entire empire, and he paid her nothing. When he was
Speaker 4: getting old and he was not far from the end
Speaker 4: of his life, he said, I don't care about my funeral.
Speaker 4: You know where I want to be buried, And where
Speaker 4: he wanted to be buried was Westwood Memorial, right next
Speaker 4: to Marilyn Monroe. He had bought the plot in the
Speaker 4: nineties and this woman that he exploited, created this whole
Speaker 4: empire off of this woman, and now she has absolutely
Speaker 4: no say and whose bones will be lying next to her?
Speaker 3: So he literally just bought photos of her off the internet.
Speaker 3: Just that already exists the rights, the rights to them,
Speaker 3: well not even right, So I don't think there's rights
Speaker 3: back then. You could just purchase a photo, so anyone
Speaker 3: could have used it. But he turned that into nude
Speaker 3: calendar then made his empire, and she A couldn't approve it,
Speaker 3: couldn't fight it, and B didn't get a cent.
Speaker 4: Is that correct? Yeah, he collected enough money from wherever
Speaker 4: to buy her photos from a calendar company. I think
Speaker 4: you bought them for seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean, no things are changing in this world. But
Speaker 1: if anyone's familiar with em Rata's story around the photographer
Speaker 1: who released nude photos of her, it's really farrowing. For
Speaker 1: a lot of young models who do nude photos as
Speaker 1: part of their you know, when they're getting their books
Speaker 1: together or they're trying they just want to get seen
Speaker 1: and noticed in the industry, and so they do what
Speaker 1: they might think are artistic photos, but they're probably more
Speaker 1: nude than what they thought they were going to be.
Speaker 1: And then the person who owns the royalties to those photos,
Speaker 1: the rights to those photos, is the photographer. It's never
Speaker 1: the model. They signed release forms that sign those things away,
Speaker 1: and that's what's happened in this instance with Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: She has no rights to the images, even though the
Speaker 1: images of her. The person who took those images has
Speaker 1: full rights and you can purchase the licensing to distribute
Speaker 1: it as you would, which just sounds crazy, but it's
Speaker 1: something that still happens to models today, and it's only
Speaker 1: if they're educated enough to know otherwise that they can
Speaker 1: protect themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I think of Marilyn Monroe. She you know,
Speaker 4: pin up was really big then, and she probably just
Speaker 4: went and did the shoot for this pin up company
Speaker 4: and then maybe the photographer convinced her to like take
Speaker 4: off a little bit. You know, that's happened to me before,
Speaker 4: where the photographers are like, oh hot, moved the strap
Speaker 4: down a little bit, and you know, I've called all
Speaker 4: them outs since because I'm like, you guys are disgusting.
Speaker 4: But yeah, her shoe probably went a little bit further
Speaker 4: than she wanted to. Or you know, she was obviously
Speaker 4: from a broken home and she was you know, in
Speaker 4: an orphanage and she like had to get married out
Speaker 4: of it to get out of it. And you know,
Speaker 4: this is obviously a girl who was vulnerable and people
Speaker 4: took advantage of that. And it's sad.
Speaker 2: God, that's wild.
Speaker 1: Isn't it insane?
Speaker 3: That you can completely like take someone's photo, build an empire, basically,
Speaker 3: steal their life, make so much money, not give them
Speaker 3: a cent, and then demand be buried next to them.
Speaker 2: Was the product of the times, right, you can't get
Speaker 2: away with that now. That just it's such a shame
Speaker 2: that we let that happen in front of it. We
Speaker 2: all celebrated him. Meanwhile he was abusing all these women to.
Speaker 1: Be profited off them. You know, it's interesting, you guys
Speaker 1: remember em Rada. A similar thing happened to her with
Speaker 1: her new model, stim Rodokowski. So she had a photographer
Speaker 1: taken nude photos of her when she was really young,
Speaker 1: only like eighteen years old, seventeen years old, first getting
Speaker 1: into modeling, and then when she became famous, he sold
Speaker 1: those nude photos and they were only meant to be
Speaker 1: test shots, and she had no right to them. She
Speaker 1: had no ownership over her digital image. And it's crazy
Speaker 1: that these things you can be separated from your own
Speaker 1: photo when you're in it. It's just crazy.
Speaker 3: You know what's sad is when you think about Playboy,
Speaker 3: You associated with Marilyn Monroe, but you had no idea
Speaker 3: that she didn't choose that she was used. Growing up,
Speaker 3: you always thought that she was a part of it,
Speaker 3: and you must have assumed that was by choice, rightly.
Speaker 2: So you'd think she had new photos there. Of course
Speaker 2: she approved this.
Speaker 3: And to learn that that was completely out of anything
Speaker 3: that she ever agreed to or had any capacity to
Speaker 3: do anything about is absolutely deserted.
Speaker 2: And what a slap in the face to go, you
Speaker 2: know what, Put me where she's buried. Yeah, put me
Speaker 2: on top of it where she.
Speaker 1: Shows what a narcissity is.
Speaker 3: Hey, if you want to hear more to that chat,
Speaker 3: it's so interesting and Crystal lifts the veil on a
Speaker 3: lot of different things that happened in that mansion. You
Speaker 3: can head over to Life Uncut Podcasts and you can
Speaker 3: just search for Playboy mansion or Crystal Hefner and the
Speaker 3: whole chat is there all right.
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