Hugh Hefner's widow alleges his foundation stored thousands of sexual photos of women, "possibly girls"

The widow of "Playboy" mogul Hugh Hefner says she's filing 2 complaints against her precocious husband's foundation, alleging they person thousands of scrapbooks containing lewd photos of women and "possibly" underage girls.

The allegations came to airy during a quality league connected Tuesday successful the Los Angeles bureau of high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing Crystal Hefner successful the case. Allred said it's not wide however the instauration gained possession of the photos aft Hefner's 2017 death.

"Crystal [Hefner] has courageously chosen to talk retired connected this contented today, not lone connected her ain behalf, but connected behalf of thousands of different women and perchance girls who are depicted successful the scrapbooks and/or referenced successful Hugh Hefner's idiosyncratic enactment diary," Allred said.

Crystal Hefner claims she was removed arsenic president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation connected Monday aft voicing her interest implicit the astir 3,000 scrapbooks, which she alleges incorporate images of thousands of pistillate individuals taken before, during and aft intersexual encounters. She was antecedently asked to resign, but refused, she said.

"It is captious for the nationalist to recognize that I americium not referring to images that appeared successful magazines," Crystal Hefner said. "My absorption is connected however Hugh Hefner's idiosyncratic scrapbooks chronicled backstage moments that took spot down closed doors."

She said the scrapbooks day backmost to the 1960s, the 2nd decennary of Playboy's existence, and could incorporate images of young girls who were underage astatine the clip of the photos being taken. Crystal Hefner and Allred did not outright corroborate the beingness of kid pornography wrong the scrapbooks.

The existent determination of the scrapbooks is unknown, but Crystal claims she was told galore could beryllium successful retention astatine backstage facilities successful California, and added she was antecedently told by members wrong the instauration that immoderate could beryllium wrong backstage residences, wherever the photos could beryllium digitized.

Allred besides says Hugh Hefner's diary detailing backstage accusation astir intersexual encounters with women, and adjacent details arsenic graphic arsenic the tracking of menstrual cycles of intersexual partners, could besides beryllium successful the foundation's possession.

CBS LA reached retired to the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation for comment, but had yet to perceive backmost arsenic of Tuesday afternoon.

Allred says 2 complaints volition beryllium filed successful the lawsuit – 1 successful California, wherever Hugh Hefner resided, and 1 successful Illinois, wherever the instauration is headquartered. The extremity of the complaints, she said, volition beryllium to commencement investigations headed by the lawyer generals successful each state.

She added that she does not judge the images person been distributed without the consent of the individuals with photos wrong the scrapbooks, but digitizing them could permission privateness concerns successful the lawsuit of a cyberattack oregon leak.

"We are informed that they are digitizing [the photos] but determination are not plans to administer them," Allred said. "If they're digitizing them, which whitethorn not beryllium against the law, what are they readying to bash with them?"

When asked if destroying the books and photos is her extremity goal, Allred said she and Crystal Hefner "aren't against" it, but said assurance that they won't beryllium distributed is the archetypal objective.