Crystal Hefner has entered a dispute with the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation over the potential release of the late Playboy editor-in-chief's sexually explicit scrapbooks. Crystal, 39, filed regulatory complaints with the attorney generals of California and Illinois over her concerns that Hugh Hefner's foundation is mishandling his private documents, including scrapbooks that allegedly feature explicit images of women and, as she believes, underage girls. These images did not appear in Playboy magazines, according to Crystal. "My focus is on how Hugh Hefner's personal scrapbooks chronicle private moments that took place behind closed doors," Crystal said during a press conference alongside attorney Gloria Allred on Tuesday, February 17. "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." The model, who was Hugh's third and final wife, added that the scrapbooks "may also contain images of women who did not consent to their images being taken in the first place." Marston Hefner on Dad Hugh's 'Hypocritical' Mistake, Continuing Family Legacy Crystal continued, "The scrapbooks include nude images, images taken before and after sexual activity, and other deeply intimate moments. They contain intimate material involving women who are now mothers, grandmothers, professionals, and private citizens who have spent decades building their lives with no idea these images were still being hoarded. I believe they include women, and possibly girls, who never agreed to lifelong private possession of their naked images, and who have no transparency into where their photos are, how they are being stored, or what will happen to them next." Crystal noted that she is "deeply worried about these images getting out," citing "artificial intelligence, deepfakes, digital scanning, online marketplaces, and data breaches" that could lead to significant harm to those featured in the scrapbooks. "A single security failure could devastate thousands of lives," she continued. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Playboy Crystal alleged that she was removed from her position as president of the foundation due to conflict over her concerns about the scrapbooks. Crystal concluded, This is not about money. I am seeking dignity, safety, and the destruction of nonconsensual intimate materials so that exploitation does not continue under the banner of philanthropy. Thousands of women may be affected. This is a civil rights issue. Women's bodies are not property, not history, and not collectibles. And no organization should be allowed to claim the language of civil rights while denying women their most basic one: the right to control their own bodies and images." In her own statement, Allred said they are asking for the attorneys general to investigate the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation's actions, noting that the documents in question not only name individuals whom Hugh slept with, but also detail the sex acts they performed. "Crystal is especially concerned that these scrapbooks could contain images of minor girls," Allred said. "Moreover, Crystal is also concerned that some of the images in the scrapbooks may have been taken without the informed consent of the adult women depicted, such as while they were intoxicated." Hugh Hefner's Son Marston Slams 'Double Standard' Over Joining OnlyFans Us Weekly reached out to the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation for comment. Crystal, who now goes by her maiden name, Crystal Margaret Harris, was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for December 2009. She tied the knot with Hugh in December 2012 and remained his wife until his death at age 91 in September 2017. In January 2024, Crystal published a tell-all memoir about her time at the Playboy Mansion called Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself. The businesswoman claimed that living at the mansion with Hugh was "emotionally abusive and traumatizing." "Life in the mansion wasn't the fairy tale I had once hoped it would be," she wrote at the time. "From the outside, sure, it had all the trappings of a fairy tale. But it wasn't, and everyone who lived there knew it."