WEBVTT - MINI: Crystal Hefner chats ex-husband Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe 🐰

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<v Speaker 1>We've been talking about the incredible story of Krystal Hefner.

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<v Speaker 1>So Crystal Hefner, she was Hugh Hefner's wife, sixty years

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<v Speaker 1>younger than her. And if you're not play yeah, if

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<v Speaker 1>you're not familiar with who Hugh Hefner is, he was

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<v Speaker 1>the Playboy tycoon. He started and he organized and he

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<v Speaker 1>ran everything to do with the Playboy, the cigar.

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<v Speaker 2>He had those silk gowns and the sailor's hat, captain's.

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<v Speaker 1>Hat, and all the little bunny is and the little

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<v Speaker 1>bunny tails.

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<v Speaker 3>It graces me out now that I think about it,

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<v Speaker 3>isn't it? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, we had the most incredible chat this week

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<v Speaker 1>on my fun Cut podcast with Crystal Hefner, who is

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<v Speaker 1>Hugh's widow, and she really lifted the curtain behind some

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<v Speaker 1>of the I mean, I don't even know how you

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<v Speaker 1>just like the trauma, the atrocities, like some of the

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<v Speaker 1>things that she experienced while she was married to him

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<v Speaker 1>and part of the Playboy mansion. But one thing that

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<v Speaker 1>she shared with us I think was so interesting and

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<v Speaker 1>so many people would not know this about how Hugh Hefner,

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<v Speaker 1>how he actually got into and how he became famous,

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<v Speaker 1>how playboy mansion started and it has to do with

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<v Speaker 1>Marilyn Monroe. So have a listen to this.

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<v Speaker 3>Speaking of financial abuse, talk to us about what heif

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<v Speaker 3>did to Marilyn Monroe.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, that is hard for me because his whole empire

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<v Speaker 4>was started with the calendar photos of Marilyn Monroe. He

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<v Speaker 4>bought calendar photos that people heard of, but they had

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<v Speaker 4>never seen of Marilyn Monroe. She was nude, she had

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<v Speaker 4>no say, she made no money, and that created Heff's

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<v Speaker 4>entire empire, and he paid her nothing. When he was

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<v Speaker 4>getting old and he was not far from the end

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<v Speaker 4>of his life, he said, I don't care about my funeral.

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<v Speaker 4>You know where I want to be buried, And where

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<v Speaker 4>he wanted to be buried was Westwood Memorial, right next

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<v Speaker 4>to Marilyn Monroe. He had bought the plot in the

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<v Speaker 4>nineties and this woman that he exploited, created this whole

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<v Speaker 4>empire off of this woman, and now she has absolutely

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<v Speaker 4>no say and whose bones will be lying next to her?

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<v Speaker 3>So he literally just bought photos of her off the internet.

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<v Speaker 3>Just that already exists the rights, the rights to them,

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<v Speaker 3>well not even right, So I don't think there's rights

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<v Speaker 3>back then. You could just purchase a photo, so anyone

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<v Speaker 3>could have used it. But he turned that into nude

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<v Speaker 3>calendar then made his empire, and she A couldn't approve it,

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<v Speaker 3>couldn't fight it, and B didn't get a cent.

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<v Speaker 4>Is that correct? Yeah, he collected enough money from wherever

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<v Speaker 4>to buy her photos from a calendar company. I think

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<v Speaker 4>you bought them for seven hundred dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, no things are changing in this world. But

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<v Speaker 1>if anyone's familiar with em Rata's story around the photographer

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<v Speaker 1>who released nude photos of her, it's really farrowing. For

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of young models who do nude photos as

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<v Speaker 1>part of their you know, when they're getting their books

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<v Speaker 1>together or they're trying they just want to get seen

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<v Speaker 1>and noticed in the industry, and so they do what

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<v Speaker 1>they might think are artistic photos, but they're probably more

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<v Speaker 1>nude than what they thought they were going to be.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the person who owns the royalties to those photos,

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<v Speaker 1>the rights to those photos, is the photographer. It's never

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<v Speaker 1>the model. They signed release forms that sign those things away,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's what's happened in this instance with Marilyn Monroe.

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<v Speaker 1>She has no rights to the images, even though the

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<v Speaker 1>images of her. The person who took those images has

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<v Speaker 1>full rights and you can purchase the licensing to distribute

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<v Speaker 1>it as you would, which just sounds crazy, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>something that still happens to models today, and it's only

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<v Speaker 1>if they're educated enough to know otherwise that they can

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<v Speaker 1>protect themselves.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I just I think of Marilyn Monroe. She you know,

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<v Speaker 4>pin up was really big then, and she probably just

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<v Speaker 4>went and did the shoot for this pin up company

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<v Speaker 4>and then maybe the photographer convinced her to like take

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<v Speaker 4>off a little bit. You know, that's happened to me before,

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<v Speaker 4>where the photographers are like, oh hot, moved the strap

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<v Speaker 4>down a little bit, and you know, I've called all

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<v Speaker 4>them outs since because I'm like, you guys are disgusting.

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<v Speaker 4>But yeah, her shoe probably went a little bit further

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<v Speaker 4>than she wanted to. Or you know, she was obviously

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<v Speaker 4>from a broken home and she was you know, in

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<v Speaker 4>an orphanage and she like had to get married out

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<v Speaker 4>of it to get out of it. And you know,

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<v Speaker 4>this is obviously a girl who was vulnerable and people

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<v Speaker 4>took advantage of that. And it's sad.

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<v Speaker 2>God, that's wild.

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't it insane?

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<v Speaker 3>That you can completely like take someone's photo, build an empire, basically,

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<v Speaker 3>steal their life, make so much money, not give them

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<v Speaker 3>a cent, and then demand be buried next to them.

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<v Speaker 2>Was the product of the times, right, you can't get

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<v Speaker 2>away with that now. That just it's such a shame

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<v Speaker 2>that we let that happen in front of it. We

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<v Speaker 2>all celebrated him. Meanwhile he was abusing all these women to.

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<v Speaker 1>Be profited off them. You know, it's interesting, you guys

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<v Speaker 1>remember em Rada. A similar thing happened to her with

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<v Speaker 1>her new model, stim Rodokowski. So she had a photographer

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<v Speaker 1>taken nude photos of her when she was really young,

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<v Speaker 1>only like eighteen years old, seventeen years old, first getting

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<v Speaker 1>into modeling, and then when she became famous, he sold

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<v Speaker 1>those nude photos and they were only meant to be

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<v Speaker 1>test shots, and she had no right to them. She

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<v Speaker 1>had no ownership over her digital image. And it's crazy

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<v Speaker 1>that these things you can be separated from your own

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<v Speaker 1>photo when you're in it. It's just crazy.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what's sad is when you think about Playboy,

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<v Speaker 3>You associated with Marilyn Monroe, but you had no idea

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<v Speaker 3>that she didn't choose that she was used. Growing up,

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<v Speaker 3>you always thought that she was a part of it,

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<v Speaker 3>and you must have assumed that was by choice, rightly.

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<v Speaker 2>So you'd think she had new photos there. Of course

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<v Speaker 2>she approved this.

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<v Speaker 3>And to learn that that was completely out of anything

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<v Speaker 3>that she ever agreed to or had any capacity to

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<v Speaker 3>do anything about is absolutely deserted.

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<v Speaker 2>And what a slap in the face to go, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what, Put me where she's buried. Yeah, put me

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<v Speaker 2>on top of it where she.

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<v Speaker 1>Shows what a narcissity is.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, if you want to hear more to that chat,

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<v Speaker 3>it's so interesting and Crystal lifts the veil on a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of different things that happened in that mansion. You

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<v Speaker 3>can head over to Life Uncut Podcasts and you can

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<v Speaker 3>just search for Playboy mansion or Crystal Hefner and the

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<v Speaker 3>whole chat is there all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Next the show, It is Friday. We do it every week.

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<v Speaker 2>We want you to share your little win of the week.

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<v Speaker 2>We're talking like when you go through drive through at

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<v Speaker 2>Machas and they give you ten nuggets instead of six.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a little win. Oh it could be a bit

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<v Speaker 1>bigger than that. That feels like a really little week

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<v Speaker 1>that was actually my win? Like, was it really dugin

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<v Speaker 1>getting an extra nuggy.

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<v Speaker 2>Extra It's what happened. We need your little wins. Thirteen

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