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Whereas displaying on Monday’s episode of Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt’s Ladies Subsequent Degree podcast, the 34-year-old — who’s the son of Hugh and his second spouse Kimberly Conrad — shared his concepts on Crystal’s connection and marriage to Hugh inside the wake of the discharge of her e book, Solely Say Excellent Concerns: Surviving Playboy and Discovering Myself, earlier this yr.

Crystal began connection Hugh, who was 60 years her senior, in 2009. The couple tied the knot in 2012, and stayed married till Hugh’s dying in 2017.

In the course of the interview, Marston urged that Crystal “could be a grasp manipulator,” and stated she required to be Hugh’s “solely girlfriend.”

“When Crystal got right here in, there started to be tribes. There have been people that had been on Crystal’s crew,” he stated, claiming Crystal loved “the idea of management and power.”

“She favored getting in that spot the spot you required to undergo her otherwise you required to ask her for concerns. … She favored controlling the visitor listing,” Marston continued. “She favored taking ladies on and off the visitor listing relying on regardless of the whims had been on the time.”

He later claimed that Crystal would take longtime guests off the lists, even men and women who had been there for “10 years, 15 years.”

“You knew to be somewhat scared commonly, to not get on her unhealthy aspect,” Marston stated.

He on top of that claimed he “heard” Crystal “managed” the visitor listing for Hugh’s funeral.

“I do not know if that is correct. On the other hand whoever was answerable for the visitor listing for my father’s funeral, disgrace on you. There have been men and women there who I’ve by no suggests noticed in my entire life,” he defined. “There have been men and women filming us on their iPhones documenting our grief.”

In her e book, Crystal stated the funeral was “tiny” and consisted of just her, her mom, in addition to Hef’s secretary, head of security, doctor and kids.

Marston on top of that claimed Crystal created men and women signal NDAs inside the years when Hugh was “actually sick” preceding to his dying.

“In maintaining with her, she did not want men and women to see him not in a position to stroll, not in a position to go over,” he stated, earlier than which includes that his father suffered from “actually unhealthy once again ache” and was “dosed with f–king remedy.”

“Folks can’t say no to these men and women,” he defined. “They did not say no, in order that they f–kin’ doped him up each and every time he required to get doped up. He wasn’t ideal right here. He was so doped up he did not know what was taking place.”

Crystal on top of that wrote about Hef’s alleged “dependancy to capsules” in her e book. She added that, lastly, “individuals round him purchased additional cautious” soon after different film star ODs, and his capsules had been doled out “in managed doses.

Marston later claimed that his father “modified” his will the yr he handed away, with the brand new doc leaving him, “one other distinct person” and Crystal “extra funds.” Marston on top of that recalled his shock that his father was permitted to make adjustments to his will regardless of his alleged psychological state on the time.

“I applied to be like, ‘Why, when he wasn’t ideal right here, when he did not know what the f–k was up or down half the time, why would he adjust his will?’” he stated, to which Holly stated that she found that to be “very creepy” and “suspect.”

Marston claimed he despatched an e mail saying that he did not take into consideration his dad was “competent” on the time, and no one required to “handle” the “elephant inside the area.”

“In case you are attempting to guard your husband, would you let him drastically adjust his funds when he is not there?” he requested.

In her e book, Crystal stated the couple’s prenup “stripped me of any declare to his tens of millions, which could go to his children.” She did add, nonetheless, that Hefner “managed to place aside undoubtedly one particular of his smaller sized accounts for me, his Playboy retirement fund,” in addition to home. She wrote that possibly he “fought so arduous on the incredibly finish of his life to go away me one particular thing” as a outcome of she “did not ask for it,” whereas “everybody else was all the time asking him for stuff.”

TooFab has reached out to Crystal for remark.

Marson admitted that Crystal is somebody who he “trusted” and did “actually like,” stating that he had a “very good time” when he appeared on Crystal’s podcast, Beneath The Floor With Crystal Hefner in December.

On the time, Marston applauded his father’s generosity, noting that he left a big sum of funds for each and every Crystal and his children, with each other with Marston’s siblings, Cooper, Christie and David. “I get it utterly,” Marston stated. “We had been so fortunate. What he left us, the inheritance, he did not have to attempt this. That claims one particular factor about his character as well.”

“Yeah, he required to guarantee everybody was superior,” Crystal agreed.

Marston added, “He essentially did. Specifically you. He essentially required to be positive to had been gonna be pleased and safe, and also you had been gonna have a terrific life.”

Whereas Crystal has but to touch upon Marston’s claims from the Ladies Subsequent Degree podcast, she did manage remarks Holly created about Crystal’s engagement to Hugh.

Crystal and Hefner purchased engaged in December 2010, having said that the former referred to as off the engagement five days earlier than their deliberate marriage ceremony in June 2011. They later reconciled and married the subsequent yr. On the podcast, Holly claimed Crystal ended her engagement to Hugh final minute “as a outcome of she was sad with the prenup.”

Crystal shut down Holly’s declare in a press release to Us Weekly.

“This is not even correct,” she stated. “Once I got right here once again I signed the incredibly very same issue. I do not have an understanding of how she will be in a position to credibly touch upon one particular factor she wasn’t round for and has no idea about. I want she would cease picking on me.”