Crystal Hefner has entered a dispute with the Hugh M. Hefner Basis over the potential launch of the late Playboy editor-in-chief’s sexually express scrapbooks.
Crystal, 39, filed regulatory complaints with the legal professional generals of California and Illinois over her considerations that Hugh Hefner’s basis is mishandling his non-public paperwork, together with scrapbooks that allegedly characteristic express photos of ladies and, as she believes, underage women. These photos didn’t seem in Playboy magazines, in keeping with Crystal.
“My focus is on how Hugh Hefner’s private scrapbooks chronicle non-public moments that happened behind closed doorways,” Crystal mentioned throughout a press convention alongside legal professional Gloria Allred on Tuesday, February 17. “There are critical and unresolved considerations concerning the scope of what these books comprise. The supplies span a long time, starting within the Nineteen Sixties, and should embrace photos of women who have been underage on the time and couldn’t consent to how their photos can be retained or managed.”
The mannequin, who was Hugh’s third and ultimate spouse, added that the scrapbooks “may additionally comprise photos of ladies who didn’t consent to their photos being taken within the first place.”
Crystal continued, “The scrapbooks embrace nude photos, photos taken earlier than and after sexual exercise, and different deeply intimate moments. They comprise intimate materials involving ladies who are actually moms, grandmothers, professionals, and personal residents who’ve spent a long time constructing their lives with no thought these photos have been nonetheless being hoarded. I consider they embrace ladies, and presumably women, who by no means agreed to lifelong non-public possession of their bare photos, and who haven’t any transparency into the place their photographs are, how they’re being saved, or what is going to occur to them subsequent.”
Crystal famous that she is “deeply fearful about these photos getting out,” citing “synthetic intelligence, deepfakes, digital scanning, on-line marketplaces, and knowledge breaches” that might result in vital hurt to these featured within the scrapbooks.
“A single safety failure might devastate hundreds of lives,” she continued.
Crystal alleged that she was faraway from her place as president of the inspiration on account of battle over her considerations concerning the scrapbooks.
Crystal concluded, This isn’t about cash. I’m searching for dignity, security, and the destruction of nonconsensual intimate supplies in order that exploitation doesn’t proceed underneath the banner of philanthropy. Hundreds of ladies could also be affected. This can be a civil rights problem. Ladies’s our bodies are usually not property, not historical past, and never collectibles. And no group needs to be allowed to say the language of
civil rights whereas denying ladies their most elementary one: the fitting to regulate their very own our bodies and pictures.”
In her personal assertion, Allred mentioned they’re asking for the attorneys common to analyze the Hugh M. Hefner Basis’s actions, noting that the paperwork in query not solely title people whom Hugh slept with, but in addition element the intercourse acts they carried out.
“Crystal is very involved that these scrapbooks might comprise photos of minor women,” Allred mentioned. “Furthermore, Crystal can be involved that among the photos within the scrapbooks might have been taken with out the knowledgeable consent of the grownup ladies depicted, similar to whereas they have been intoxicated.”
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Crystal, who now goes by her maiden titleCrystal Margaret Harris, was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 2009. She tied the knot with Hugh in December 2012 and remained his spouse till his demise at age 91 in September 2017.
In January 2024, Crystal revealed a tell-all memoir about her time on the Playboy Mansion referred to as Solely Say Good Issues: Surviving Playboy and Discovering Myself. The businesswoman claimed that residing on the mansion with Hugh was “emotionally abusive and traumatizing.”
“Life within the mansion wasn’t the fairy story I had as soon as hoped it will be,” she wrote on the time. “From the skin, certain, it had all the trimmings of a fairy story. But it surely wasn’t, and everybody who lived there knew it.”