Hugh Hefner’s widow raised racy alarm bells Tuesday that thousands of women’s naked images — and, perhaps, even more intimate moments — could be exposed if the Playboy founder’s sex diary and personal scrapbooks are ever made public.
A grim Crystal Hefner, 39, sat alongside feminist superlawyer Gloria Allred to reveal they’re requesting the attorney generals of California and Illinois investigate the vast trove of highly personal files allegedly held by the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation.
The still-hidden materials go back to the 1960s and include 3,000 of Hugh Hefner’s personal scrapbooks containing nude images, pictures of sexual activity and, potentially, underage girls, Crystal Hefner warned.
“Thousands of women may be affected,” the widow said in Allred’s Los Angeles office. “This is a civil rights issue. Women’s bodies are not property, not history and not collectibles.
“No organization should be allowed to claim the language of civil rights while denying women their most basic one: the right to control their own bodies and images.”
Allred said she filed regulatory complaints with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as well as his Illinois counterpart Kwame Raoul, calling for probes and potential remedial legal action.
The dramatic demand came after Crystal Hefner claimed she was unilaterally kicked off the foundation’s board Monday as she raised privacy and consent concerns for the women depicted in the files.
The former Playboy Playmate of the Month married Hefner in 2012, becoming his third wife. She was at his bedside when hedied five years later, at age 91.
After Hefner’s death, she has increasingly been vocal about her allegedly “toxic” life in the Playboy Mansion, eventually penning a blistering tell-all in 2023 titled “Only Say Good Things.”
Last year, she gotengaged to a marine biologistand announced she’d return to her maiden name Crystal Harris — although she was identified by Allred on Tuesday as “Crystal Hefner.”
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