Crystal Hefner said she filed regulatory complaints alleging the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation possesses thousands of pages of the Playboy founder's journals and scrapbooks that may include pictures of nu...
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Hugh Hefner's widow alleged Tuesday that a foundation set up by the Playboy founder may be in possession of a decades-old collection of sexual images, including some of underage girls that were taken without consent.
Flanked by attorney Gloria Allred, Crystal Hefner said she filed regulatory complaints with the California and Illinois attorney general's offices in an attempt to prevent any potential distribution of the images, which she said were contained in her late husband's scrapbooks and personal journals.
The two women said the documents are in possession of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, a Santa Monica-based organization that claims to advance progressive causes, including "rational sex and drug policies,"
according to its website. The foundation was first incorporated in Illinois, records show; Hefner, who died at 91 in 2017, was born in Chicago.
Allred alleged the foundation is in possession of "3,000 personal scrapbooks containing thousands of nude images of women and Hefner's diary, which contains highly personal information regarding his sexual exploits including names of women he slept with, notes describing the sex acts that they performed ... and in some instances even information tracking women's menstrual cycles."
Crystal Hefner, 39, said the images were taken during sexual encounters between the Playboy founder and the women, some of whom could not make informed consent at the time because they were under the influence after wild parties at the Playboy Mansion. She also expressed concern that some of the encounters involved minors.
"The materials span decades, including in the 1960s, and may include images of girls who were underage at the time," she said.
The Hefner Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
