Former Playboy model claims Hugh Hefner tried to 'force' incestuous relationship with her twin sister
Former Playboy model Karissa Shannon has spoken out about her alleged experiences at the Playboy Mansion, claiming Hugh Hefner pressured her and her twin sister, Kristina, to engage in sexual activity with one another.
Karissa, now 37, made the bombshell claims in a new interview with Page Six. The sisters lived at the notorious Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles between 2008 and 2010, having moved into the property when they were 18 as two of Hefner's girlfriends.
Speaking about the alleged incidents, Karissa claimed Hefner repeatedly tried to encourage the twins to engage in sexual activity in front of him.
"He would try and force me and my sister to have sex with each other," she claimed. "He wanted to see it and wanted us to fool around with each other and said that if we really loved each other, we would do it together."
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However, Karissa was keen to clarify that she and Kristina never actually had sex with one another, explaining that they agreed to pretend to comply with what was allegedly being asked of them.
"Me and my sister never actually did it together," she explained. "So that's a statement I want to say. Like, really, we never, never had incestuous sex. Like, we never did that. We faked it. We faked it every time.
"And it was horrible. Like, we faked it completely."
The ex-model explained that she and her twin sister had discussed how to handle the uncomfortable situations at the time, and decided pretending was the best way to get through them.
"Me and my sister spoke about it. We were like, 'Let's just fake it,'" she recalled, adding that Hefner had no idea the pair were pretending.
She alleged that the idea of the twins being intimate with one another made him happy because he considered it 'beautiful'.
The shocking allegations echo comments previously made by Crystal Harris, who was married to the former Playboy founder from 2012 until his death in September 2017, aged 91.
During an appearance on Lisa Guerrero Unleashed, Harris described witnessing disturbing behaviour involving the Shannon sisters in the bedroom.
"In the bedroom, things would happen that ended up just not being okay," she said, alleging Hefner attempted to push the twins' heads towards each other's groins to encourage sexual contact.
"That is incest and that is disgusting," Harris added, also recalling relieved when the sisters were able to get away from the situation.
"In my mind, I'd be like 'Thank God. Get out of here, girls. We got this,'" she said. "I didn't want them to have to do something like that with each other.
"So that was very, very hard."
Karissa also previously spoke about her experiences with Hefner in the 2022 documentary Secrets of Playboy, in which she described sexual encounters with the late publisher as assault.
"Every time I've done it with him, it's assault," she said in the documentary. "To me, it's like rape."
Tyla contacted Kristina's representatives for comment.
Topics: Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Celebrity, US News, Real Life
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