Crystal Hefner Gives Us a Taste of Paradise in Her Hawaiian Home Tour

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Crystal Hefner decided to make a fresh start after the loss of her husband, Hugh Hefner, in 2017. And she chose a pretty good state for it.“I fell in love with [Hawaii],” Crystal, 37, says exclusively in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “The waterfalls, the scenery, everything.”Crystal began house hunting on the Big Island in 2021, a few years after Hugh — the legendary founder of the Playboy magazine empire whom she wed in 2012 — died at 91.

The former model confessed she “needed a change” after living in the Playboy Mansion for 10 years. She told Us that she will open up about her experiences living in the infamous home in her upcoming memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, which will drop in 2024.“I was in that bubble for a decade,” she tells Us. “Building in Hawaii was a process of finding out what I like and what I want and who I am.

It’s been a healing journey.”During her search for her dream home, she came across an abandoned 6.5-acre lychee orchard that she saw a lot of potential in.

Crystal restored the sprawling orchard and transformed the land into her tropical dream property.She partnered with Paradise Tiny Homes, a company that builds small, eco-friendly houses, to create a place that wouldn’t disrupt the beautiful natural surroundings.