Hugh Hefner's widow warns images of underage girls are in late husband's scrapbooks, journals
Source: LA Times
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."
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-17/crystal-hefner-playboy-hugh-hefner-foundation-photos
This Vanity Fair piece is from 2017:
Is the presidency of Donald Trump the price America paid for Hugh Hefner's sins? Did Playboy magazine's gospel of monogrammed hedonism ultimately produce the tufted warlock in the White House, much as Charles Manson rattlesnaked out of the hippie ethos of free love? "The current president of the United States may be Hefner's most sterling achievement," wrote Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker in September, shortly after the founder of Playboy magazine and its once fluffy bunny empire evacuated his waxen envelope of flesh at the age of 91. "Hefner may have . . . promoted the kind of persona that helped carry Donald Trump to the White House," the historian Gyorgy Toth speculated on the website "The Conversation." "[Some] male voters may have felt 'oppressed' by political correctness as much as Hefner's followers felt trampled by the imperative to marry." Even partial responsibility for Trump's election is a heavy rap to lay on Hef's mottled reputation, but affinities between the two glazed oglers are indisputable, as was their mutual-admiration society. Along with lording about like har-em masters (Hefner with the pneumatic Playmates and centerfolds at his Los Angeles mansion, Trump with the tiara-pursuing contestants in the cheesy beauty pageants he produced), both moguls promoted their brands as aspirational models, running their companies as patriarchal fiefdoms, extensions of their biorhythms and fidgets. (The Hefner described in Tom Wolfe's 60s-era profile "King of the Status Dropouts," poking at the headboard dials of his round bed, trying to get the damned thing to revolve, is an innocuous precursor to Trump orchestrating chaos from his Twitter app.) In 1990, Playboy featured Trump on the cover, an editorial honor that Trump still cherishes but that Hefner's son and editorial heir, Cooper, rues as "a personal embarrassment" and a pigeon stain on the brand (my metaphor, not his). Trump was also an occasional visitor at the Playboy Mansion, and, in a bi-coastal salute, "a complete run of Playboy, bound in luxe leather," resides in the lounge of Manhattan's Trump Soho, according to The Nation's architecture critic, Michael Sorkin.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/donald-trump-hugh-hefner-playboy-persona?srsltidAfmBOopgIEFi4Y9AvxrYsV2Ni6E3sRpH-ZKqfhOa5QMk0dX3dU1Nxsdx
"Toward the end of the evening, I found myself in a small circle, conversing with Trump, Hefner and another contestant. With a wry smile, Trump looked at Hefner and said, 'It's hard for me to tell which of these girls are yours and which ones are mine.'"
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Hefner celebrated that Trump's chief rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, and his "Christian crusade to eliminate all sexual activity that doesn't lead to procreation" were beaten by a man with a reputation for licentiousness.
"Instead, voters nominated Donald Trump, a thrice-married New York entrepreneur who once owned the Miss USA pageant, over Cruz, the son of a pastor," Hefner wrote. "It's a sign of the massive changes in the 'family values party' and proof of…a sexual revolution in the Republican Party."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hugh-hefner-friends-decades-relationship-soured-673205
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