Hugh Hefner Takes Control From Beyond The Grave

Hugh Hefner is keeping his kids under his control-freak thumb — even though he’s dead — with legal papers saying they’ll be cut off from what's left of his $43 million estate if they’re caught drugging and boozing!

The bizarre conditions are a final hypocrisy by the 91-year-old founder of the Playboy empire, who wrote pro-feminist essays in his skin mag, but kept a harem in his mansion and passed beauties around like party favors to Bill Cosby and other celeb guests at his bashes.

According to the documents, Hefner’s children — Cooper and Marston (shown flanking Hugh in 2011), Christie and David — and his widow, Crystal Harris, must stay sober and “spend responsibly” if they want to inherit his legacy.

“This is just the height of hypocrisy on Hefner’s part,” The National ENQUIRER learned from a source close to the late publishing legend. “Back in the day, the Playboy Mansion was awash in booze and drugs. Hef was well aware of it and encouraged it.”

Jennifer Saginor, author of "Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside Playboy Mansion," : “I find it hard to believe the man who built an empire on hedonism, drugs and excess wants to regulate recklessness from the grave.”

Despite his party animal image, Hefner died from cancer as “a typical senior citizen from his generation — eating early bird specials, pinching pennies and going to bed early,” an insider says. And the source adds: “I hear his kids are steaming mad” about the restrictions on their lives.