“No one is allowed to speak other than her. Apparently First Change is just for her,” Bridget said, while Holly noted that “it’s surprising” that Crystal is “the pinnacle of free speech.”
holly madison It is Bridget Marquardt are talking afterwards Cristal Hefner sent them a cease and desist letter regarding opinion they did about her on their podcast.
In the most recent episode of your Female Subsequent Phase podcast, the former reality stars hit back at Crystal’s legal letter, with Holly accusing Hugh Hefner widow of “hypocrisy”.
Crystal – who was married to Hugh from 2012 until his death in 2017 – submitted the cease and desist request earlier this month, per TMZafter Holly, Bridget and Hugh’s son, Marston Hefner, beat Crystal in an episode of Could Female Subsequent Phase. In the episode, Marston said his stepmother “can be a manipulator.”
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Holly and Bridget shared their thoughts about Crystal’s letter, but didn’t address her by name, instead calling her the “Cease and Desist Girl.”
“What really surprises me about this is that she’s trying to cease and desist, basically threatening a lawsuit to get our opinions out there, and this woman is at the forefront of free speech,” Holly said of Crystal, who is the president of Hugh M. Hefner Basewhich “helps and funds today’s pioneers in defending civil rights and liberties, with special emphasis on First Modification rights and rational sex and drug policy,” according to its website.
“I can’t deal with the hypocrisy right now,” she added.
“’First it was the NDAs, now it’s cease and desist,” Bridget said. “No one is allowed to speak other than her. Apparently, the First Mod is just for her.”
Holly worries that she’s “not backing down,” labeling Crystal’s actions as “legal bullying.”
“There’s a thing I prefer to call ‘legal bullying,’ when people who presume themselves richer than everyone else pay their lawyers to stop ships and quit people to shut them down,” she said.
She added that she thinks Crystal should “resign” as president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. “This is a joke!”
Holly and Bridget also addressed Crystal’s statement in the cease and desist letter, in which she alleged that the two podcast hosts and Marston accused her of “stoning” Hugh until the end of his life for her own financial gain.
However, Holly alluded that Marston’s words were misconstrued, claiming that Hugh’s son was “a little disturbed (by) the amount of medication his father was receiving.”
“But he said when you are so rich and powerful, there will always be someone who can write you a prescription,” she added, noting that she is “paraphrasing” Marston’s comments. “I took that to mean that he just felt that when you have that kind of access, there’s always going to be a doctor somewhere who maybe offers you a little too much so that you can do that. ”
Although Holly stated that she didn’t assume it had “anything to do with Stop and Desist Girl,” Bridget added that Crystal “took it very personally,” with the pair referencing that Crystal first brought it up in a Us weekly interview.
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Responding to Marston’s claims that Hugh was “dosed on shitty medications,” Crystal said she “wished he would take as little of that kind of stuff as possible,” while she herself tries not to take prescription medications.
“She’s very defensive about this issue for some reason,” Holly said on Sunday’s podcast, in which Bridget reacted to Crystal’s comments in Us weeklysaying, “I thought, ‘We never say that!’”
“And so, now it’s cease and desist, so I’m like, ‘No, she really thinks we said that,’” she continued, adding that she wonders why Crystal’s lawyer didn’t just listen to the podcast to see that themselves. They didn’t really say that.”
Holly noted that “any lawyer worth his salt can say, ‘Don’t do that, you don’t have a case here.’”
TooFab has reached out to Crystal’s rep for comment.
In the cease and desist letter, obtained by TMZ, Crystal, through her legal team, stated that the comments Holly, Bridget and Marston made on the May 12 episode of Female Subsequent Phase caused him “critical harm” and labeled their feedback as “malicious and deliberately misleading.”
Regarding her claims that the three suggested she was worried about “drugging” Hugh before his death, Crystal’s lawyer said: “Nothing could be further from the truth. In our view, Ms. Hefner was steadfast in her commitment to Mr. Hefner in his final days, ensuring that he was cared for and received the best medical care available.
TMZ noted that the letter also said they could take legal action if Holly continued to make “false” claims about Crystal.
“EM. Hefner will not have his title and fame tarnished by opportunists,” Crystal’s lawyer told the media outlet. “We stand by the contents of the letter and can fully implement Ms. Hefner’s rights.”
In the meantime, Holly took to social media to react to receiving the letter and poked fun at the whole thing,
“Think about implementing a free speech foundation and then telling someone to cease and desist,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on June 10, adding a handful of laughing and crying emojis.
In a follow-up post, Holly stated, “Your lawyer can’t even find my correct email address.”
Think about operating a freedom of expression base and then telling someone to stop and desist from talking 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
– Holly Madison (@hollymadison) June 10, 2024
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Your lawyer can’t even figure out my proper email address 🤡
– Holly Madison (@hollymadison) June 11, 2024
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