Former Playboy Mansion resident Jennifer Saginor has criticized Crystal Hefner for claiming she was “trapped” in her marriage to Hugh Hefner in her new tell-all memoir, while accusing the model of “playing the victim.”
Crystal’s explosive book, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, was released earlier this week, and in it the 37-year-old made a number of bombshell claims, including that she never loved the late magazine queen.
The blonde beauty also shockingly admitted several times that she felt trapped in their four-year marriage, which ended when he died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 91.
However, Crystal’s claims have been strongly refuted by Jennifer, the daughter of Hugh’s personal physician and best friend, Dr. Mark Saginor, who believes the former bunny “chose” to stay with him.
Former Playboy Mansion resident Jennifer Saginor has criticized Crystal Hefner’s claims, accusing her of ‘playing the victim’
Crystal and Hugh, pictured together in 2014, were husband and wife for just under five years
Jennifer took direct aim at Crystal, telling DailyMail.com exclusively: “Take off your bunny ears. Stop promoting a brand and image that you claim to be a victim of. It’s inconsistent.’
She continued, “She chose to be there and she chose to go back. She plays the victim card, and this takes away from the actual victims of sexual abuse.
“I was there for four decades, and she was there for seven years. Crystal knew what she was getting into. She got paid for her services.
“She promoted the brand and continues to promote the brand. After making millions of dollars, she came out saying she was being held against her will.”
Jennifer, who grew up calling Hugh her ‘uncle’, spent her childhood at the infamous LA party venue and had her own room in the 29-bedroom mansion from the age of 12.
She has alleged that Crystal published several untruths in her memoir.
Crystal revealed that during their marriage she “looked for girls” for sex orgies with herself and the late magazine mogul.
She described how Hugh liked to have “at least five girls” at a time when they would get intimate in the bedroom.
Crystal’s explosive book Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself was released earlier this week
Jennifer’s father Dr. Mark Saginor (pictured left) served as Hugh’s personal physician. She has spoken candidly about how she believes they were “lovers.”
The pin-up, who married the magazine publisher when she was 26 and he was 86 in 2012, wrote: ‘After the twins (Kristina and Karissa Shannon) were gone, it became my job to help find girls who wanted to come into the bedroom . at parties in the country house, or during an increasingly rare night out.
“It was a big part of the reason we even went out: for Hef to find new girls.”
She continued, “Sometimes Hef would point to someone. Other times I chose. He liked having at least five girls, and I knew what he liked. It was actually a relief to have other women in the bedroom with me, to not have to be all alone sexually with him. If these other girls did it, I didn’t have to.
‘And there were always so many girls eager to get into Hugh Hefner’s bed, standing next to me at every party, desperate to be chosen. I felt torn; part of me wanted to reject them for their own good. But I also knew someone was coming, so it might as well be someone who really wanted to go.
‘I trusted them to make their own decisions about their bodies as adults, but I also felt a responsibility to make the whole experience exciting for them. Or if it’s not exciting, then at least not that uncomfortable.’
In response to the candid recollection, Jennifer said: “To admit that she recruited women to bring to Hef… she is admitting that she put girls in harm’s way and then profited from it.
The 37-year-old made a number of bombshells in her memoir, including saying she never loved the late magazine kingpin
Jennifer, who grew up calling Hefner her “uncle,” alleged that Crystal told several untruths in her memoir
“Crystal is trying to monopolize and make money off a dead man who gave her everything she wanted until he couldn’t give it any longer – and now she keeps taking.”
Jennifer previously spoke candidly about her father’s close relationship with Hefner and how she viewed them as lovers.
In the documentary Secrets of Playboy, she said, “My father and Hef had a spiritual bond that I don’t think any of these wives or girlfriends could ever compete with.
“Their friendship was like, next level. They were like soulmates.”
Jennifer continued in the film, “They went really far. They became more than best friends. They became (lovers).”
In her memoir, Crystal said she felt trapped in her marriage to Hugh.
Crystal wrote in her memoir that it was “hard to imagine life without” Hugh, despite feeling trapped by him
“I felt trapped in the mansion, trapped in my role as caregiver, but I also didn’t want to lose him,” she wrote.
“He had been a huge, extraordinary presence in my life. He loomed over everything. It was hard to imagine life without him.”
In a recent interview with DailyMail.com, she revealed that she never had sex alone with her late husband during their marriage, which lasted from 2012 until his death.
The model also made it clear that she did not enjoy the group sex encounters with her husband and the other women.
Jennifer isn’t the only former associate of the late mogul who Crystal has called out for her memoir.
Kimberley Conrad, 61, who was married to Hugh from 1989 to 2010, also accused her of “making a quick buck” from the book.
In a statement to TMZshe said, “While a few people spout their version of their idea of events in the hopes of riding a wave of headline relevance and making a quick buck, we all have to ask ourselves if we want to live in an environment where people refuse to live. taking responsibility and using words like ‘coerce’ and ‘survival’ to describe choices they voluntarily made at some point in their own lives.”