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Only Say Good Things Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Crystal Hefner

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At just twenty-one years old, Crystal Harris’ life changed forever when she attended a party at the notorious Playboy mansion. Picked out of the crowd by Hugh Hefner, she became one of his infamous “girlfriends,” attending glamorous Hollywood parties and traveli...

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Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Nosrat's new cookbook, Good Things, Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love, was said to have emerged after many revisions and to focus on recipes and rituals for sharing meals with loved ones.

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Still, she was trying to write a new book, one that went through many versions and finally ended up as this one, Good Things, Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love.

— Episode: Samin Nosrat Is Embracing 'Good Things'

Episode: Samin Nosrat Is Embracing 'Good Things'

Nosrat's new cookbook, Good Things, Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love, was said to have emerged after many revisions and to focus on recipes and rituals for sharing meals with loved ones.

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Still, she was trying to write a new book, one that went through many versions and finally ended up as this one, Good Things, Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

The episode featured Crystal Harris Hefner discussing the book, which detailed her experience of financial control and abuse while living in the Playboy Mansion and her efforts to achieve independence. Nicole Lapin highlighted the author's revelations about how Hugh Hefner profited from the women and disclosed her modest advances, illustrating the broader issues of manipulation. The conversation framed the title as an eye‑opening account of financial exploitation rather than a promotional endorsement.

Episode: Hugh Hefner's Widow Crystal Harris Hefner on the F...

In her book, Crystal Harris Hefner details her experiences with financial control and abuse during her time at the Playboy Mansion and subsequent marriage to Hugh Hefner. She describes the psychological and financial manipulation she experienced and how she gained her financial independence.

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In her new book, Only Say Good Things, Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, Crystal opens up about the financial control she was subject to during her time in the Playboy Mansion.

I would say look at all the ways Hef profited off of us and not just us, all the women before us, and all the women before that, all the way to Marilyn Monroe, who was the very first playmate in the magazine that got paid nothing for creating an entire empire for Hef.

In my books, I talked about how much I made for my advances, because I talk about money, and I just assume somebody would wonder, you don't have to tell me, but it's not in the millions of dollars I assume.

For my advance, no. It was less than $100,000, and I split that with my book agent.

I remember getting $29,000 into my bank account, and I'm like, "Oh, my credit card's more than that at this point, because I'm building a place in Hawaii, so that money just went away in one day."

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