Hugh Hefner's widow warns images of underage girls are in late husband's scrapbooks, journals

[Miles Archer]

Hugh Hefner's widow warns images of underage girls are in late husband's scrapbooks, journals

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/playboy-founders-widow-warns-hugh-002615747.html

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.

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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."

Crystal Hefner, 39, said the images were taken during sexual encounters between the Playboy founder and the women, some of whom could not make informed consent at the time because they were under the influence after wild parties at the Playboy Mansion. She also expressed concern that some of the encounters involved minors.

"The materials span decades, including in the 1960s, and may include images of girls who were underage at the time," she said.

[wcmagumba]

1. If Heff was abusing/raping under age girls, that information (sans pics) should come out...

Don't need the images but the rest of the information about Heffner's crimes should be released...

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

some of whom could not make informed consent at the time because they were under the influence

Yeah. That's called rape. Didn't need all the other words. "Some of whom" were raped.

Not surprised by any of this.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. This is no surprise.

Kudos to his widow for taking responsibility for this on her late husband's behalf. This should be investigated, and I have no desire to see the photos.

[Captain Zero]

8. Amazing, the people who have never heard of

A SHREDDER

[pnwmom]

10. Amazing, the people who've never heard of a statute of limitations

that doesn't apply to crimes like rape of a minor.

[FakeNoose]

4. If her intentions are good, Mrs. Hefner will be sure to protect the women involved

Whether they were underage victims or consenting adults, there's no need to embarrass them or invade their privacy now. Their privacy should be protected no matter what. I believe Hugh Hefner did that while he was living.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. This is probably about alleged victims suing Hefner's estate, timed to coincide

with the feeding frenzy surrounding the Epstein files. America never could handle sex in general, especially when linked to scandal and hyped by the media into spectacle, so especially not now. Thus the timing may prove beneficial to the plaintiffs. While child porn did not become illegal in the USA until 1978 (hence, I think, the reference to "the sixties" above), statutory rape was a thing for pretty much all Hef's life, in most states anyway.

Now me, I wonder whether releasing Epstein's files will be seen by some judges as "unfairly prejudicial" to defendants in future Epstein-related lawsuits, and perhaps even have a spill-over effect into other, unrelated matters. My suspicious mind also wonders if that IS the purpose of the current Khanna/Massie push. I also wonder: what the Biden Justice Department was doing for four years? Did they gather some/most/all of this stuff, or does some/most/all of it predate them, since Epstein died during Trump 1.0? No idea, me. But I wonder what the backstory is here; while at the same time doubting we'll ever get it.

[usonian]

6. "Privilege" ... unearned privilege is the curse of humanity .

Claiming some power over others because of your skin color, religion, nationality, ANYTHING that you fell into and did not earn, is called "Fundamental Darkness" by Buddhists.

I won't go philosophical, but this is all so wrong.

We are all different but equally human and gifted with the potential for divinity, or Buddhism, depending on your beliefs, including those young people, and ESPECIALLY those young people.

There's a certain peace in knowing that you (or I) have never harmed, taken advantage of or robbed anyone.

The Hugh Heffners, Musks, Trumps, Putins, Bibi's and Putins of the world will never know that.

Just look at any 5 average Joe's in the street. Any 5.



that fell into their positions by the evil machinations of others, lies and deceit.

[valleyrogue]

7. Hef was the scum of the earth, nothing but a glorified pimp.

He wasn't an icon of anything, not anybody people should ever admire.

Nothing about him surprises me. He was beneath contempt.

[Skittles]

9. I always thought he was a sick POS

I have been proven correct

[bmichaelh]

11. Secrets of Playboy

There was a documentary a couple of years back that showed first on A&E.

It detailed experiences from mostly first hand accounts.

Members of Hefner family dismissed it.

[SocialDemocrat61]

12. This Hugh Hefner?

[themaguffin]

13. hmm

[malaise]

14. THIS - What Donald Trump Learned from Hugh Hefner

I read this on DU years ago
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/donald-trump-hugh-hefner-playboy-persona?srsltid=AfmBOorVO1SeMjitjufkFS75JH11bxsHZCfL0Tdzm8Bcooc1TA2mUeoT

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.

“If Donald Trump has a maestro in matters of taste,” observed Sorkin, “it’s surely his fellow teetotaler and sex fan Hugh Hefner, the pajama-clad, Pepsi-swilling progenitor of the lifestyle that so intoxicated boys of The Donald’s generation.” Trump picked up his cues for public indoctrination from Pajama Man. “Trump’s politics are, like Hefner’s ‘Playboy Philosophy,’ an impossible combination of liberalism, hedonism, bloviation, and misogyny.” What makes this combo platter menacing to civic health is when you add Fascism to the menu. Sorkin posits a third bro looming in the background of these two stylish schlockmeisters: the glowering specter of Adolf Hitler. It is no secret that Trump kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside, not exactly lullaby reading, and all three men were arch-merchandisers. “Hitler, Hefner, and Trump—the real rat pack—share a logo fetish (the swastika, the bunny, and the big T are among the most ubiquitous signifiers of their times) and a powerful fascination with building and design. Hefner in the Playboy Mansion, Hitler in the Berghof, and The Donald in his Trump Tower triplex are obsessed with self-corroboration by decorative context and the dramatic possibilities involved in the public marketing of a ‘private’ lifestyle.”

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