On Tuesday, the widow of the late Hugh Hefner called for an investigation into the Hugh Hefner Foundation, which is reportedly digitizing photos of women engaged in sex acts.
There are reportedly 300,000 scrapbooks that are allegedly with photos of thousands of women that were private and not used for Playboy.
Crystal Hefner said during the press conference that the photos date back to the 1960s, and that many women may not know their images are even in the scrapbooks.
“It is critical for the public to understand that I'm not referring to images that appeared in magazines,” she said. “My focus is on how Hugh Hefner's personal scrapbooks chronicle private moments that took place behind closed doors. There are serious and unresolved concerns about the scope of what these books contain.”
Hefner and her attorney, Gloria Allred are asking the attorneys general of California and Illinois to investigate the Hugh Hefner Foundation over the private photos and Hefner's personal sex diary.
“Crystal is especially concerned that these scrapbooks could contain images of minor girls,” Allred said. “Minors cannot legally or morally give their consent to be photographed naked or in sexual positions, and the law is unequivocal. That the possession, digitization, and or distribution of naked and or sexual images of minors is illegal. Moreover, Crystal is also concerned about some of the images in the scrapbooks. Have been taken without the informed consent of the adult women depicted, such as while they were intoxicated.”
Hefner said she would like to see the photos destroyed.
Hefner married the Playboy founder in 2012 and was with him until his death in 2017.
KNX News reached out to the Hugh Hefner Foundation for a response.
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