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Despite his treatment of the other ladies, it seems that Hugh kept Betty up on a pedestal for his entire life. He even reminisced about her during an interview with The Daily Beast in 2017, the year of his death.
“You don’t know when you’re going to die. The first girl I had a crush on in high school, who is still a close friend, Betty Conklin, married the fellow she loved and within the next handful of years he was killed in a car accident. You don’t really know — and how many marriages last more than a few years?” (For context, Hugh was defending his May-December romance with a woman in her 20s who he wanted to marry.)
Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-with-betty-conklin-and-hugh-hefner-secrets-of-playboy
