"It's a little sanctuary, my slice of paradise," the 37-year-old model tells HELLO!. "Seeing the views, looking out to the ocean and the cliffs, it's very resetting. Those years feel like a lifetime ago now."
Crystal bought the six-and-a-halfacre estate in 2021, but deliberately built a small property.
"I didn't want a big house because I didn't want to disrupt the land," she says. "I looked into different options, found a tiny house company and started designing a tiny house - it's 290sq ft, but is set in acres."
Although her home is on Hawaii island, the largest in the archipelago, Crystal's thoughts are on the wildfires that raged on neighbouring Maui. She says: "Hawaii really needs help right now. Please donate to Maui organisations and the people affected. If you've ever vacationed and experienced the beauty here, please give back and help."
Her life now could not be more different from those years as a Playboy cover model and the third wife of the tycoon, whom she married in 2012, almost five years before his death from heart failure and sepsis at the age of 91.
Of the years of parties at the "mysterious and alluring" Playboy Mansion, where she lived with Hugh - "Hef", as she and his friends called him and around 70 members of staff, she says: "It's taken me until now to process what happened. Hef was a very charming and powerful man. He came across as very gentle and kind when I first met him."
Despite the charm, she admits she had concerns about the 60-year age gap, saying: "We'd do interviews and I'd say: 'Oh, the age gap doesn't matter,' and of course it matters.
Who am I fooling? People say: 'What about kids?' I'm like: 'It's not gonna work - this child will be a certain age with no father.' But all of those real thoughts, you push them down.
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THROWING IT BACK TO THE 1990S 'VOGUE' ERA OF THE SUPERMODEL
KATE MOSS LEADS FAMOUS FACES REFLECTING ON FASHION HEYDAY
FORMER 'MADE IN CHELSEA' STAR FRAN NEWMAN-YOUNG
DAZZLES IN BESPOKE WEDDING GOWN AS SHE TIES THE KNOT IN STYLE IN MAJORCA
LENDING SUPPORT TO CHILDREN'S HOSPICE PRINCESSES BEATRICE AND EUGENIE
BRING LIGHT INTO LITTLE ONES' LIVES AS THEY PLANT A SYMBOL OF HOPE
ON BUOYANT FORM AFTER HIS WIFE'S GOOD NEWS THE PRINCE OF WALES
DISHES OUT THE HUGS ON VISIT FROM THE HEART
WITH AN INCREDIBLE GLIMPSE INTO FAMILY LIFE THE PRINCESS OF WALES
SHARES MESSAGE OF HOPE AS SHE LOOKS TO THE FUTURE AND BALANCING HER ROLE
IN HIGH SPIRITS AT THE BRAEMAR HIGHLAND GAMES THE KING AND QUEEN
ENJOY LAUGHS APLENTY AT A FAVOURITE EVENT BEFORE MONARCH QUIETLY MARKS TWO YEARS ON THE THRONE
AS HOLLY WILLOUGHBY RETURNS NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS
STARS DAZZLE ON NIGHT OF GLAMOUR AND GONGS
CREATING A NEW SISTER ACT ELIZABETH OLSEN
ON CO-STARRING WITH NATASHA LYONNE AND CARRIE COON
MAKING HISTORY AT STARSTUDDED EVENT IN NEW YORK TAYLOR SWIFT
SMASHES IT WITH SEVEN OF THE BEST AT THE V.M.As
KIM KARDASHIAN AND DAKOTA JOHNSONS
FASHION AND COMPASSION AT A-LIST CHARITY EVENT