Was Betty Conklin Hugh Hefner’s Inspiration for Playboy? ‘Secrets of Playboy’ Explains

Regardless of his remedy of the opposite women, evidently Hugh saved Betty up on a pedestal for his total life. He even reminisced about her throughout an interview with The Day by day Beast in 2017, the yr of his dying.

“You don’t know while you’re going to die. The primary lady I had a crush on in highschool, who remains to be a detailed good friend, Betty Conklin, married the guy she liked and throughout the subsequent handful of years he was killed in a automotive accident. You don’t actually know — and what number of marriages final various years?” (For context, Hugh was defending his Might-December romance with a girl in her 20s who he needed to marry.)