Hefners Secret Diaries Leak Sparks Panic

Hugh Hefner's widow Crystal Harris has filed a legal complaint to track down the whereabouts of her late husband's scrapbooks, which she believes may contain images of underage girls.   

In a bombshell press conference on Tuesday, Harris and her attorney Gloria Allred said that there were approximately 3,000 scrapbooks belonging to the Playboy founder that contain 'naked and sexually explicit images' of women. 

Harris also fears that some of the women in the images may have been intoxicated at the time and therefore could not properly consent to having their photo taken, and that some females may have been underage.

'It is critical for the public to understand that I am not referring to images that appeared in magazines. My focus is on how Hugh Hefner’s personal scrapbooks chronicle private moments that took place behind closed doors,' Harris said in a statement.

'There are serious and unresolved concerns about the scope of what these books contain. The materials span decades, beginning in the 1960s, and may include images of girls who were underage at the time and could not consent to how their images would be retained or controlled,' she continued. 

'They may also contain images of women who did not consent to their images being taken in the first place. The scrapbooks include nude images, images taken before and after sexual activity, and other deeply intimate moments.' 

She added, 'This is not historical documentation. This is the cataloging and objectification of women’s most private details.'

The scrapbooks are said to be held in a storage facility in California, but Harris claims that she was told that some of the scrapbooks 'could be inside a private residence to be scanned and digitized'.

'I am deeply worried about these images getting out. Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, digital scanning, online marketplaces, and data breaches mean that once images leave secure custody, the harm is irreversible. A single security failure could devastate thousands of lives,' she said.

Harris also claims that she was 'asked to resign' from the board of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation after she raised concerns about the images.

'Though I declined to resign my position, yesterday, in direct response to my escalating concerns regarding the handling of private photos contained in the scrapbooks, I was unilaterally removed from my position as the Chief Executive Officer/President of the Foundation,' she said.

Harris has now filed complaints with the Attorney Generals of California and Illinois, requesting that they initiate an investigation into how the images are being handled and stored. 

Harris added, 'This is not about money. I am seeking dignity, safety, and the destruction of non-consensual intimate materials so that exploitation does not continue under the banner of philanthropy. Thousands of women may be affected.'

In addition to the thousands of scrapbooks, the foundation is also in possession of Hefner's personal diary, which Allred claims contains, 'highly personal information regarding his sexual exploits, including names of women he slept with, notes describing the sex acts they performed, and in some instances, even information tracking women’s menstrual cycles.'  

Harris famously wed the Playboy founder in 2012 when she was 26 and he was 86. (Pictured 2015)