Crystal Harris

Hugh Hefner's Wife Crystal Hefner Files to Legally Change Her Name 8 Years After His Death

Crystal Hefner has filed to legally change her last name after years of trying to distance herself from simply being the Playboy founder's wife following his death in 2017.

July 18, 2025

Crystal Hefner Is Engaged to James Ward Following One Year of Dating

Former Playboy model Crystal Hefner, who was married to Hugh Hefner from 2012 until his death in 2017, got engaged in Hawaii to marine biologist James Ward on April 25 following a year of dating.

May 3, 2025

Crystal Hefner Says Hugh Hefner Wanted Her to "Stay Skinny and Have Big Fake Boobs"

Hugh Hefner's widow Crystal Hefner detailed feeling so "small" during her marriage to the Playboy founder, saying that he used to call her out for gaining weight and having grown out roots.

February 2, 2024

Why Crystal Hefner Is Changing Her Last Name

Six years after Hugh Hefner's death, his widow Crystal Hefner exclusively shared with E! News her plans to revert to her maiden name and change her moniker back to Crystal Harris. Find out why.

January 27, 2024

Crystal Hefner Admits She Never Was in Love With Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner's widow Crystal Hefner looked back at her "traumatic" marriage to the Playboy founder, telling E! News it was "hard to be in love with someone who wants multiple people in the bedroom."

January 26, 2024

Crystal Hefner Details "Traumatic" and "Emotionally Abusive" Marriage to Hugh Hefner

Crystal Hefner, Hugh Hefner's third wife, tells E! News that therapy helped her unpack what she experienced behind the walls of the Playboy Mansion—and why writing a book about it was so freeing.

January 25, 2024

Bombshells From Crystal Hefner's Memoir

January 25, 2024

Crystal Hefner Through the Years

January 12, 2022

Why Crystal Hefner Still Has Difficulty Dating 4 Years After Hugh Hefner's Death

Four years after Hugh Hefner’s death, wife Crystal doesn’t think she’ll ever experience something like their “surreal” romance ever again. She remembered the Playboy titan on Daily Pop.

September 27, 2021

Inside Hugh and Crystal Hefner's Unlikely Yet Ultimately Loving Marriage

Sixty years separated Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his third wife, Crystal Harris, and their relationship wasn't exactly taken seriously at first.

April 29, 2021

Crystal Hefner Picks Sides in Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison Drama

Crystal Hefner, wife of the late Hugh Hefner, has weighed in on the drama between the Playboy founder's ex-girlfriends and former Girls Next Door stars Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson.

April 9, 2021

Crystal Hefner Breaks Her Silence After Hugh Hefner Is Laid to Rest

Playboy founder died at age 91 on September 27

October 2, 2017

Crystal Hefner Shares Photo After Having Her Breast Implants Removed: ''The New Me''

Hugh Hefner's wife talks about her improving health after having her implants removed

July 20, 2016