Hugh Hefner, the notorious and irrepressible 85-year-old founder of “Playboy” magazine, self-admitted harbinger of the sexual revolution in America, famous for his wild parties and a mansion full of ‘Playmates’, who has dated multiple women together (three – including a pair of identical twins – and even seven at one time) is ready for his third, and according to him, his last, marriage, to 24-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris

Piers: There’s not a man alive who hasn’t wished he could be Hugh Hugh for just a single day.

Piers: You’re settling down for the third time, and you say, the last time.

Piers: You could have had any woman in the world – you have had most of them – so how did you narrow it down to Crystal?

Piers: And the date of the wedding is?

Piers: There’ll be people watching who say, ‘Crystal, come on, what are you doing marrying a guy in his 80s?’ What’s the magic of Hugh Hefner

Piers: Groucho Marx, I think, said, ‘You’re only as old as the woman you feel!’ Is that true, Hef? Do you feel young ladies keep you feeling young?

Piers: Fidelity has never been your strong point. When you say your vows to Crystal, are you actually going to mean them?

Piers: Could you imagine being faithful to her?

Piers: So you actually are going to be genuinely faithful to Crystal?

Piers: So what happens to all the other women in the mansion?

Piers: But they’re not allowed anymore to...?

Piers: So you’ve hung up your sword?

Piers: That’s what I mean. Crystal, do you trust him?

Piers: But you honestly believe Hef will not have sex with any other woman ever again other than you?

PIERS: So as long as she goes along with it, it’s fine?

PIERS: There’ll be people who look at you, thinking, ‘How did you get so lucky’? You’re rich, you’ve got your health, you’ve got Crystal.’

PIERS: You look in great shape. I know you’re a little bit deaf in one ear. What other war wounds do you have?

PIERS: Someone wrote about you once that you’d slept with thousands of women, but you’d unbelievably managed to never fall out with any of them. Is that true?

PIERS: So you always try and stay friends with them all?

PIERS: What about your recent exes, have they all taken news of the engagement well, or has there been a little bit of tension?

PIERS: Do you ever keep score of how many women you’ve managed to...

PIERS: At what point did you stop? What was the tally then?

PIERS: Is there? Is there anything more important to your life than sex?

PIERS: Like what?

PIERS: And how much is your ability to continue having a good sex life down to Viagra?

PIERS: What do you guys talk about?

PIERS: Well, actually, that’s a damned good question. Did you know Marilyn Monroe?

PIERS: How much of “Playboy”, do you think, is down to you, personally?

PIERS: Your early life was quite puritanical. You didn’t even lose your virginity until you were in your 20s?

PIERS: What would they have made of the empire you’ve built?

PIERS: “Playboy” was a real trailblazer at the time in terms of the sexual liberation it represented. You were doing stuff that people just didn’t even dare to do at the time. What was your real intent?

PIERS: He’s always been a bit of a naughty boy, hasn’t he?

PIERS: Is that the idea? Is that the point of these parties?

PIERS: Can people go there and have sex non grata and things?

PIERS: Hef, do you want to grow up?

PIERS: Of course you have.

PIERS: You said that with a straight face. We’re going to ask somebody who can perhaps testify to this – your son. Cooper, you’re 19. So your stepmom is going to be five years older than you. How do you feel about that?

PIERS: What’s it like being Hugh Hefner’s son?

PIERS: What kind of dad is he?

PIERS: Hef, how’s Cooper dealt with the pressures of – so many kids of famous people deal with it badly – how’s he done?

PIERS: You must be very popular with your band mates?

PIERS: When the Midsummer Night’s Dream party comes around, it’s like, ‘lads, good news, I’ve got some tickets’...

PIERS: It must have been sometimes embarrassing to be a Hefner, when you were a young lad?

PIERS: What do you make of his choice of brides? Obviously, he’s had a lot to choose from.

PIERS: Hef, you’re in your mid 80s now. Do you ever think about death?

PIERS: Good to be alive if you’re Hugh Hefner. Life’s pretty good right now?

PIERS: Of all the pin-ups you’ve ever had the history of “Playboy”, what’s been your personal favorite?

PIERS: Would that be your favorite?

PIERS: And you bought that picture for 500 dollars and it became a business that’s worth – what are you worth now?

PIERS: Do you get offended if people call you sleazy? Or do you understand why some people would find this kind of thing...

PIERS: How would you like to be remembered?

PIERS: How do you think you will be remembered?

Hef, as he likes to be called, and Crystal Harris, joined by his son Cooper, tell Piers Morgan what life is like when lived in the Playboy Mansion.Hugh: A lot of people think they know everything about me, but they don’t.Hugh: It’s just a very, very good time to be alive.Hugh: Well, literally, it’s fate. Obviously, I didn’t see it coming. To some extent, it was Woody Allen who said in a movie, ‘Marriage is the death of hope,’ and I had not had a lot of luck in my first couple of marriages. But, you know, I found myself in a relationship. We’ve been together for about two-and-a-half years now, where I just could not imagine spending the rest of my years with anyone else. And it just doesn’t get any better than this. I mean, we laugh a lot, and that is what it’s all about.CRYSTAL: It is June 18.Hugh: And my brother will be my best man. The groomsmen will be my two youngest sons, Markston and Cooper.Crystal: I love Hef. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met. I have so much fun with him. And it’s hard for me to keep up with him. I mean, for my birthday, I wanted to go bowling, and for his birthday, he wanted to go to two different nightclubs at the Palms in Las Vegas. We laugh, we have so much fun together.Hugh: I’ve said it more than once before, age really is just a number. You really don’t know how long you’ve got. How long does the average marriage last?Hugh: Yes, without question, a relationship with somebody younger does keep you alive.Hugh: Yes.Hugh: I was faithful – my last marriage, which was not successful – I was faithful to it.Hugh: Yes. Absolutely.Crystal: They still come around, every weekend. Everyone’s there.Crystal: They’re not allowed upstairs. No. (laughter)Hugh: Unless she invites them!Hugh: Well, you never know. I mean, you know.Crystal: Yes. I trust him.CRYSTAL: I don’t know what to say. I’m like, what? (laughter) We don’t have a traditional anything, so it’s...Hugh: I will never do anything behind her back. Let me put it that way!Hugh: Yes. Yes.Hugh: I’m a guy who dreamed impossible dreams and made them come true. You know, from my own perspective, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet.Hugh: I have a lower back problem which I got in the wars. I got it back in the early 80s with one too many Playmates in bed, but...CRYSTAL: I thought that was just a story you told me!Hugh: It’s the truth.Hugh: Essentially, yes. And it’s something I’ve tried to make a point of. I think it’s something very sad, if one winds up at odds with a former wife or a love, because I think you give up a part of yourself.Hugh: Yes.Hugh: Some have been kind, some angry and some not quite so kind.Hugh: I’ve stopped doing that a long time ago.Hugh: I don’t know what the number was. But I think there’s something more in important in relationships than quantity.Hugh: Oh, yes, absolutely.Hugh: Well, I think that perhaps love, friendship.CRYSTAL: Everything. Yes. It’s not as important.Hugh: It’s easy, of course, it’s like saying, ‘is money important?’, you know, only if you don’t have any. If I wasn’t having a good sex life, I would probably put that at the top of the list.Hugh:Well, I wouldn’t want to try it without. I mean, that’s what it’s there for. It breaks down the... you know, it eliminates the problem in terms of age.PIERS: I guess women imagine that Hugh Hefner must be one of the greatest lovers of all time.CRYSTAL: We have the best time together no matter what we’re doing. I mean, we love just putting on our PJs and curling up and watching murder mysteries and fun stuff.CRYSTAL: Everything. I ask him... I want to know everything about Hef. I ask him all these questions. I’m not a jealous person. I want to know, like, ‘Did you know Marilyn Monroe? Did you sleep with her? Did you do this?’Hugh: She was actually in my brother’s acting class in New York. But the reality is that I never met her. I talked to her once on the phone, but I never met her. She was gone, sadly, before I came out here.Hugh: Well, I certainly didn’t do it alone. But it is certainly very personal. The whole notion of “Playboy” came from my own dreams, my childhood, adolescent dreams.Hugh: My parents were very puritan – Nebraska farm people. They gave me good ideals, but they were also very repressed.Hugh: Well, they were around long enough to see what it was all about. My dad actually came to work for me, as my treasurer. And my mother, when I was starting the magazine in 1952 with nothing, I went to anybody to – you know, a dollar here, a dollar there – and she gave me 1,000 dollars.Hugh: I wanted to create a lifestyle magazine. Most men’s magazines after World War II were outdoor adventure magazines. And I was not interested in hunting and fishing etc. I liked the, you know, the more urban life. So I wanted to create a magazine that created a sense of a bachelor’s existence with some style. And in that time frame, that was very revolutionary, because you have to remember, 1952, 1953 was a very conservative decade.CRYSTAL: Yeah!PIERS: I went to your Midsummer Night’s Dreams party three years ago. I was nearly arrested for trying to go in wearing too many clothes. I had to take my clothes off. I walked in and there were 800-1000 people, most of whom were young ladies who had very little clothing on. You were in this weird tent in the middle of the whole thing, presiding over about 35 women. And I remember thinking, ‘This is like a modern day version of Caligula’s Rome.’ This was a sort of orgy in front of me.CRYSTAL: It’s beautiful.HUGH: I think that’s the idea.CRYSTAL: Yeah. I don’t know if it’s literally an orgy, but it’s like free. Inhibitions are gone. Pillows everywhere...CRYSTAL: I’ve walked in on a couple of people in the game house. People can sneak away if they wanted to. There’s rooms. There’s everything.HUGH: I think that’s the key. When people say, they want to be me when they grow up, I say the key to that is don’t grow up.CRYSTAL: I don’t want to grow up either.HUGH: I mean it in a very positive way. There are too many rules and restrictions. At the same time, from my perspective, I have lived continually a very moral life.HUGH: Of course I have.Cooper: It is what it is. I like Crystal a lot. I’m used to it. I’ve grown up with dad dating younger women. So it’s not out of the ordinary. I’ve never known anything different.CRYSTAL: We don’t think of it like that, either. We just have fun.Cooper: I don’t have anything else to base it on. So it’s, I guess it’s a little surreal when you compare it to other people’s lives. But I mean, he’s just dad to me.Cooper: He’s a good dad, very good. I look up to him. He’s incredible.PIERS: When you bring girlfriends back, do you get a bit worried when the old man pops his head in?Cooper: No. No, I don’t think so.HUGH: He’s a fantastic son.CRYSTAL: He’s great. He’s going to college. He’s a filmmaker. He’s awesome.HUGH: Got his own band.Cooper: Yeah.Cooper: That’s right. But to tell you the truth, everybody who I consider a close friend, I’ve grown up with...I’m very selective about who my friends are, just because of my last name. And I think I have incredible friends.Cooper: Yeah, when I was growing up, I used to lie about who I was. Not because I was embarrassed of what my dad did, but just because I didn’t want the attention. And the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve learned about the company and the more time I spend with my dad, there’s nothing to be ashamed of. I look up to dad.Cooper: I like Crystal very much. And she’s nice to me and nice to him. I mean, what else do you ask for besides wanting your parents to be happy?CRYSTAL: We have fun. We go on trips together. We all just went to Chicago to see the house Hef grew up in. We bond. I hang out with Sam all the time, Cooper’s girlfriend. She’s one of my closest friends.HUGH: No. I think about being alive.HUGH: Never been better.HUGH: Well, it all began with Marilyn Monroe.HUGH: It would have to be. I think she’s the major sex star of the 20th century. You know, without Marilyn, I wouldn’t be here.HUGH: I stopped counting a while back. The company is worth two, three, 400 million. You know, the magazine supplied the torch for the beginning of the sexual revolution. But I think the reason we survived is because we’ve always been more than just a sex magazine. It is a lifestyle magazine and done with class.HUGH: Because I think that “Playboy” and my life are a Rorschach test. They project their own dreams, fantasies and prejudices on to my life. It says as much about them as it does about me. That’s the kind of world we live in. America remains essentially a very puritan people.HUGH: As somebody who had some positive impact on changing thesocial sexual values of his time. I’m pretty secure in that.CRYSTAL: The same. He is an icon. He has changed the world. And he keeps continuing to change the world.