Crystal Hefner, the widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, has serious concerns about journals and scrapbooks that are too graphic. The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation has these papers, and they may soon be made public.
Crystal Hefner says she was fired as CEO after showing Hefner’s personal collection of thousands of pages. She told the attorneys general in California and Illinois about possible nude pictures of underage girls and filed complaints with them.
At a press conference in Los Angeles, attorney Gloria Allred backed Hefner by showing copies of the complaints but not letting the public see them. The foundation, which is focused on progressive issues like rational sex policies, hasn’t said anything.
Hefner says that the leaders of the foundation are not in any danger, unlike the women in the pictures. The materials have private pictures from Hefner’s life, which raises concerns about safety and privacy.
Hugh Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91. Crystal married him in 2012 after they had broken up. Her book “Only Say Good Things,” which came out in 2023, talked about her troubled marriage and claimed that she was controlled and traumatized.
The foundation, which is based in Illinois, keeps Hefner’s archives in Santa Monica. Hefner turned Playboy into a cultural empire, but a 2022 documentary later accused him of sexual abuse.
