“No individual’s allowed to talk nevertheless her. Apparently, the First Modification is only for her,” said Bridget, whereas Holly well-known that it “blows [her] ideas” that Crystal is “the head of a free speech foundation.”
Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are speaking out after Crystal Hefner despatched them a cease and desist letter regarding suggestions they made about her on their podcast.
On the newest episode of their Ladies Subsequent Stage podcast, the earlier actuality stars hit once more at Crystal’s approved letter, with Holly accusing Hugh Hefner’s widow of “hypocrisy.”
Crystal — who was married to Hugh from 2012 until his lack of life in 2017 — despatched the cease and desist earlier this month, per TMZ, after Holly, Bridget, and Hugh’s son, Marston Hefner, slammed Crystal on a May episode of Ladies Subsequent Stage. On the episode, Marston immediate his stepmom “could also be a grasp manipulator.”
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Holly and Bridget shared their concepts on Crystal’s letter, nevertheless didn’t verify together with her by title, as an alternative calling her “Cease and Desist Woman.”
“The issue that truly blows my ideas about that’s she’s attempting to ship a cease and desist, principally threatening a lawsuit for us airing our opinions, and this woman is on the top of a free speech foundation,” Holly said of Crystal, who’s the president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, which “helps and funds presently’s pioneers defending civil rights and liberties, with specific emphasis on First Modification rights and rational intercourse and drug insurance coverage insurance policies,” in response to its web page.
“I cannot address the hypocrisy correct now,” she added.
“‘First it was NDAs, now it’s cease and desists,” Bridget said. “No individual’s allowed to talk nevertheless her. Apparently, the First Modification is only for her.”
Holly careworn that she’s “not backing down,” labeling Crystal’s actions as “approved bullying.”
“There’s a issue I favor to call ‘approved bullying,’ when people who assume they’re richer than everybody else pay their attorneys to ship cease and desists to people to shut them up,” she said.
She added that she thinks Crystal should “step down” as a result of the president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. “That could be a joke!”
Holly and Bridget moreover addressed Crystal’s declare inside the cease and desist letter, by which she alleged that the two podcast hosts and Marston accused her of “popping up” Hugh within the route of the highest of his life for her private financial purchase.
Nonetheless, Holly alluded that Marston’s phrases have been misinterpreted, claiming that Hugh’s son was “just a bit bit disturbed [by] the amount of drugs his father was receiving.”
“Nevertheless he said that after you’re that rich and extremely efficient, there’s always going to be anybody who can write you a prescription,” she added, noting that she’s “paraphrasing” Marston’s suggestions. “I took that to indicate as he merely felt like when you could possibly have that type of entry there’s always going to be a well being care supplier someplace who’s going to maybe give you just a bit an extreme quantity of to ensure that you it.”
Whereas Holly said she didn’t assume that had “one thing to do with Cease and Desist Woman,” Bridget added that Crystal “took it very personally,” with the pair referencing that Crystal first launched this up in an Us Weekly interview.

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Responding to Marston’s claims that Hugh was “dosed with f–king drugs,” Crystal said she “wished him to be on as least as potential of any of that type of issue” as she tries to not take prescription drugs herself.
“She’s precise defensive about that topic for some trigger,” Holly said on Sunday’s podcast, to which Bridget reacted to Crystal’s suggestions in Us Weekly, saying, “I assumed, ‘We under no circumstances say that!’”
“After which, now it’s inside the cease and desist so I’m like, ‘No, she truly thinks that we said that,’” she continued, together with that she wonders why Crystal’s lawyer didn’t merely be all ears to the podcast to see that they “actually didn’t say that.”
Holly well-known that “any lawyer value their salt may be like, ‘Don’t try this, you wouldn’t have a case proper right here.’”
TooFab has reached out to Crystal’s rep for comment.
Inside the cease and desist letter, which was obtained by TMZ, Crystal, by the use of her approved group, claimed that the remarks Holly, Bridget, and Marston made on the May 12 episode of the Ladies Subsequent Stage introduced on her “crucial harm,” and labeled their suggestions as “malicious and intentionally misleading.”
Referring to her claims that the three immediate she was involved with “doping” Hugh earlier to his lack of life, Crystal’s lawyer said, “Nothing might probably be farther from the fact. As we understand it, Ms. Hefner was steadfast in her dedication to Mr. Hefner by his final days, making sure that he was cared for and obtained the most effective medical consideration on the market.”
TMZ well-known that the letter moreover mentioned that they could take approved movement if Holly continued to make “false” claims about Crystal.
“Ms. Hefner will not be going to have her title and fame tarnished by opportunists,” Crystal’s lawyer suggested the outlet. “We stand by the contents of the letter and might implement Ms. Hefner’s rights to the fullest.”
Within the meantime, Holly took to social media to react to receiving the letter, and poked satisfying on the whole factor,
“Take into consideration working a free speech foundation after which sending any individual a cease and desist for talking,” she wrote on X, beforehand Twitter, on June 10, together with a handful of laughing crying emojis.
In a follow-up put up, Holly claimed, “Your lawyer can’t even uncover my applicable e mail deal with.”
Take into consideration working a free speech foundation after which sending any individual a cease and desist for talking 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Holly Madison (@hollymadison) June 10, 2024
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Your lawyer can’t even uncover my applicable e mail deal with 🤡
— Holly Madison (@hollymadison) June 11, 2024
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