Speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles with attorney Gloria Allred on Tuesday, February 17, Crystal Hefner called on the attorneys general of California and Illinois to investigate Hefner’s diaries and the possibility of them being digitized by the Hugh Hefner Foundation.
Crystal Hefner said the diaries “chronize private moments that took place behind closed doors.
“There are serious and unresolved concerns about the extent of what these books contain,” he said.
According to Crystal Hefner, the newspaper photographs were private images, never intended to be published in Playboy or any other format.
Allred told reporters that the diaries contain images of thousands of women, mostly naked and often engaging in sexual activity.
“Crystal is especially concerned that these scrapbooks may contain images of underage girls,” Allred said. “Minors cannot legally or morally give consent to be photographed naked or in sexual positions. The law is unequivocal that the possession, digitization or distribution of nude or sexual images of minors is illegal.
“In addition, Crystal is also concerned that some of the scrapbook images may have been taken without the informed consent of the adult women depicted, for example, while they were intoxicated.”
Hefner said the photographs should be destroyed. She said she was recently removed as president of the Hefner Foundation, a move she said was motivated by her concerns about the handling of materials in diaries and scrapbooks.
Crystal Hefner was married to the Playboy founder from 2012 until his death in September 2017 at age 91.