Crystal Hefner Files Complaints Over Scrapbooks

Crystal Hefner filed regulatory complaints with the California and Illinois attorneys general on Tuesday, February 17, alleging that the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation is mishandling the late editor's private sexually explicit scrapbooks. She says the scrapbooks span decades, may include images of underage girls and nonconsensual material not published in Playboy, and urges an investigation and destruction of the materials due to risks from breaches, AI deepfakes, and exposure.