The son of the late Playboy writer goes deep on his dad’s girlfriends and life as a child rising up within the Mansion — in addition to his fondest reminiscences with Holly, Bridget and Kendra
Hugh Hefner‘s son, Marston Hefner, is opening up about life on the Playboy Mansion.
In an interview with former playmates, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, Marston mentioned rising up at one of many world’s most well-known properties, being round his dad’s girlfriends and extra.
“The employees have been actually imply to me at a sure level,” Marston informed The Ladies Subsequent Door alums. “They have been actually f–ked as much as me.”
He continued, “It was form of like, I used to be the son who was residing off my father’s success is my guess of what it was. Jealously, or they thought I used to be entitled. They felt like I actually did not belong.”
Whereas Marston, the 33-year-old son of Hefner and his second spouse Kimberley Conrad, stated all through his childhood the employees have been very nice to him, that modified as he grew to become a teen and later a younger grownup.
“At that age, I didn’t really feel welcome,” Marston added, earlier than sharing that there are some members of the employees he nonetheless considers household, nonetheless.
It was a dynamic Holly and Bridget skilled as nicely, telling Marston that there have been some employees members who did not look after them — one particularly that accused Holly of being an opportunist.
“This man hated me and stated I used to be the largest caught up b–h and I clearly have an agenda,” Holly recalled.
Whereas Holly stated she wasn’t positive what the employees stated behind her again, Marston assured her that it was solely variety issues and thanked the pair for all the time being good to him throughout their time residing beside one another on the Los Angeles-area abode.
Bridget, in the meantime, relied on the employees for companionship when Holly was the primary girlfriend, calling her friendship with those that labored on the mansion one thing she regarded again on fondly.
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The trio additionally mentioned the late Playboy writer’s quirks, together with having to have the identical dinner virtually nightly — lamb chops made particularly by the mansion employees — with Marston speculating that it might have been a type of Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction or Autism that led his father to be the best way he was.
“He wanted it, and would get offended if it wasn’t there. If what he anticipated wasn’t there. If the lambchops weren’t there, he would get upset,” Marston stated. “That a part of my father actually makes me marvel. What’s it that he wanted that routine.”
Holly shared, “I thought of perhaps being on the spectrum or perhaps OCD, and even simply the best way at a younger age, his life exploded, perhaps there’s simply sure stuff you cling onto that like, ‘Wow, I’ve all this occurring round me. Possibly I simply want these touchstone issues.'”
“I really feel prefer it was a technique to keep in management too, and that was essential to him,” Bridget added.
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That theme of management was current all through the mansion and along with his relationships along with his girlfriends, typically setting curfews for them and dictating who they may and couldn’t discuss to throughout the mansion.
“Possibly simply doing these little issues made him really feel like, ‘I am secure. My life is nice. I’ve what I want,” Marston provided.
So far as Marston’s favourite moments within the mansion, that got here on household nights, the place he’d play chess along with his dad on Tuesdays.
“It was a second in our lives the place he took like, a very particular concentrate on me, and he was simply actually loving, actually supportive,” the artist and collector shared. “He would play chess with me each Tuesday for household night time, and in some unspecified time in the future I beat him. I believe I beat him legitimately and he was so completely satisfied.”
Marston continued, “The enjoyment that he had as an alternative of being like, ‘You should not of.’ He was simply actually pleased with me, and I believe that second of time was my favourite.”
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So far as his emotions on the E! TV present that made Holly and Bridget well-known, Marston agreed that they — together with former playmate Kendra Wilkinson — have been an enormous a part of what made it so successful.
Whereas they admitted they benefited from being on The Ladies Subsequent Door, the present was additionally a product of laborious work and years poured into their relationship with Hugh.
“So far as I am involved, sure, we would not have been on the present if we weren’t residing with Hef,” Bridget started. “However I really feel like the majority of the present was about us and we made the present common.”
She continued, “And we did put seven years of our life into that relationship and we put 4 years or nonetheless lengthy it was, into that present, and we labored laborious for all of that. So, it is equally ours too. You’ll be able to say that we would not have it with out Hef, however we helped construct it and we helped create it and it would not have been what it was with out us.”
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It was a sentiment Marston agreed with, including, “You guys are the cultural icons — my dad is a cultural icon, however you guys are too. That was an enormous a part of that point interval, that present.”
All-in-all, Marston stated there was a large number of his girlfriends that he liked, together with Wilkinson, and recounted a number of touching reminiscences with the women, together with going to take a look at Christmas lights as a bunch.
“We drove within the limo and we — God, that is such a particular reminiscence for me. And the gingerbread cookies. That makes me emotional,” Marston stated, choking again tears. “I like these reminiscences a lot.”
“It felt like a household,” he added.