Christmas at Playboy Mansion – panty chandelier to ‘orgasming’ over saucy gifts

The Playboy Mansion is a place of dreams – so it’s definitely extra special during the festive season.

Home to business mogul Hugh Hefner until his death in September 2017 and his wife Crystal, the mansion has seen numerous sex parties, orgies and plenty more X-rated activities in its heyday. Now it has been purchased by entrepreneur Daren Metropoulos for $100million, and renovations are still underway.

He first bought the house in 2016, allowing Hefner to remain in the home until his death. Since then, he’s been remodelling the property to give it the equivalent floor space of eight average US homes – and it likely won’t be finished by Christmas.

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Plans include the partial demolition of a 650 square foot staff house, with a new 4,400 sq. ft. addition set to be built, including a gym and garage. A separate 1,200 sq. ft. guest house is also being built.

It’s a dramatic change to Crystal Hefner’s usual Christmas plans when her husband was still alive, when she’d regularly give tours online of her various decorations. Daily Star takes a peek behind the curtain at the ghosts of Playboy Christmas past.

Panty chandelier

In one video tour of the mansion, Crystal showed off the master bedroom – which includes a chandelier draped with used panties. A small Christmas tree was established right underneath every year.

Explaining the chandelier, Crystal said: “Hef asked if I wanted to take them down, but we just leave them up there because that’s what this place is known for, right? Good times and panty-less people.”

The used undies were left by various female visitors to the mansion, who all opted to leave them behind after one of Hef’s infamous parties.

Saucy gifts

As expected, Christmas yielded some pretty interesting gifts for the Playboy mogul and his bunnies. Hef was once gifted four identical throws which featured huge images of Holly, Crystal and Bridget cuddling fully naked.

In one video, Crystal documented ordering him a personalised globe, with scenes from his favourite movie Casablanca added in, as well as bunny logos in every country Playboy established a magazine.

In one episode of Playboy reality show The Girls Next Door, one Playmate admitted: “The amount of presents that we get is just infinite. We open presents for hours.” Someone else said they get “millions” of presents each year. Playmates were handed crystals upon crystals, pink laptops, and faux fur coats, with one gushing: “I’m going to orgasm!”

Crystal’s additions

A giant inflatable Rudolph on the front lawn, a Christmas tree boasting “35 boxes of LED lights”, personalised Disney ornaments… when it comes to pulling out all the stops for Christmas, Crystal Hefner had it covered.

She gushed in a YouTube video: “You can see the lights on the tree all the way through to the other side.” Showing off the huge tree in the home’s in-built cinema room, Crystal admitted she keeps a second Christmas tree upstairs in the bedroom for the more “personal” ornaments.

“We’re spoiled, very spoiled here,” she admitted. She continued to show off a Marilyn Monroe bauble – with her skirt whooshing up – while explaining: “Some of the festivities here include having guests over for the holidays.

“We have a big Christmas dinner which is so cool, they decorate it so pretty. All of our friends come and we have wonderful chefs that cook all the food, which is great because I can’t cook at all.”

She went on: “We watch a lot of Christmas movies. My favourite is Elf, it’s the best, but I love all of them. Hef’s favourite Christmas movie, I think, is Miracle on 34th Street, or possibly It’s A Wonderful Life. He also loves Christmas Story.

“For gifts, Hef and I will open gifts on Christmas Eve. It’s nice to do that, because it’s a day early and you get Christmas to just hang out and relax and not have to worry about gifts. So it works out, I like that tradition.”

Pooch prezzies

Of course, Crystal never left out her dogs when it came to Christmas day. In one 2014 video, she showed the stockings hanging on the fireplace, including one for each pet.

“This is for Charlie, our dog. This is mine, Hef’s stocking, and this is for Lady, our newest puppy addition. She’s one now but she’s still a puppy in my eyes!”

Both dogs’ faces were even put on a Santa Claus ornament on the tree, which Crystal proudly showed off in the master suite. She gushed: “This tree is a collection of all of our favourite, personalised ornaments, all in one place.”

Winter sports

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In a more extravagant display, the Mansion’s massive lawn was annually turned into a tobogganing slope, with a team hired to coat the garden in artificial snow. Plenty of snowball fights ensued, with Bridget explaining: “You always hear about white Christmases and how pretty and neat that is, and we actually got to have one even though it was like 70 degrees.”

In one video, Hef quipped: “Remember, the good little girls get gifts, but the bad little girls get lots of gifts.” He went racing down the hill with the girls, while Kendra admitted: “It definitely felt more Christmassy with the snow being there.”

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