Sounds complicated to me, I'm wonder how men in Arab can practice polygamy without problems there. I think a man can't be really fair to his wives in love, financial, etc.
Whether he can be fair to all his wives or not is his problem, not ours. If 90-year old Hugh Hefner is allowed to have a dozen teenage girlfriends at the same time in the United States, then why can't a 30-year old Arab living in Saudi Arabia have two wives who are in their 20s? And believe it or not, polygamy is rare in the Middle East. Only a small part of the population practices it (mostly Bedouins).
I think the polygamist marriage by an Arab guy is not related to Hugh Hefner, that's a weird opinion. Do you think Middle East countries government legalized polygamy just because they were jealous to Hefner? Although its rare (below 5%) in Middle East, they have given inspiration by US men to get their "right" too in US.