Crystal Hefner, the widow of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has alleged that his scrapbooks and journals include photographs of nude ladies taken with out their consent and pictures of underage women.
At a information convention Tuesday with lawyer Gloria Allred, Crystal Hefner mentioned she is “deeply apprehensive” concerning the photographs getting out.
“There are severe and unresolved considerations concerning the scope of what these books include,” she mentioned.
Crystal Hefner mentioned there are greater than 3,000 scrapbooks and journals that span many years, courting again to the Nineteen Sixties.
Allred mentioned she filed regulatory complaints, asking for California’s and Illinois’s attorneys common to launch an investigation into the Hugh M. Hefner Basis relating to Hugh Hefner’s scrapbook and journal assortment. (The muse’s deal with is listed as in California, and Hugh Hefner was born and raised in Illinois.) The workplace of California’s lawyer common didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The press secretary for the Illinois lawyer common’s workplace mentioned they acquired the grievance and are reviewing it.
Allred mentioned the journals describe Hugh Hefner’s sexual exploits, together with names, descriptions of the intercourse acts, and even typically monitoring ladies’s menstrual cycles. Allred mentioned the inspiration has plans to digitize the images.
The muse didn’t instantly reply to JHB’s request for remark.
Allred additionally mentioned that when Crystal Hefner spoke up about her considerations over the journals, she was fired as the inspiration’s chief government.
The Hugh M. Hefner Basis was based in 1964 and, in accordance with its web site, it “helps and funds as we speak’s pioneers defending civil rights and liberties, with particular emphasis on First Modification rights and rational intercourse and drug insurance policies.”
Crystal Hefner mentioned that the “hypocrisy” is as “disturbing as it’s apparent.”
“Ladies have the correct to bodily autonomy, we now have the correct to manage our personal likeness. We now have the correct to say that intimate photographs created below unequal situations don’t get to comply with us for the remainder of our lives,” Crystal Hefner mentioned.
Crystal and Hugh Hefner married in 2012 when she was 26 and he was 86 years previous. They remained married till Hugh Hefner’s dying in 2017. Since his dying, Crystal Hefner has given a number of interviews during which she mentioned Hugh Hefner was emotionally abusive and that she made a number of makes an attempt to flee the Playboy Mansion whereas she was dwelling there.