She reportedly tore up Hef’s sordid insurance policy. Crystal Hefner, the widow of Playboy honcho Hugh Hefner, has revealed that she disposed of the “revenge porn” that her late husband allegedly kept around the mansion to blackmail critics with. Rumors had long been swirling regarding the pictures, but their existence hadn’t been confirmed until now. The playmate-cum-paramour’s bombshell claims followed the Monday premiere of the 10-part A&E docuseries “Secrets of Playboy,” which shines a spotlight on Hefner’s alleged predatory practices. In the damning documentary, Playboy Mansion fixture Holly Madison, a longtime “girlfriend” of Hefner’s, claimed she was “afraid to leave” her then-flame as she feared there was “a mountain of revenge porn just waiting to come out.” “He’s taking all kinds of naked pictures of these women when we were wasted out of our minds,” the 42-year-old “Girls Next Door” star laments in the show. “It was just gross.” She had explained in December that Hef would make “copies of the photos he took” and “hand them out to everyone who had gone out that night,” Toofab reported. “So if you were messed up and if you were in his bathtub with your top off and some other girl is doing some sexually explicit pose on you and he took a picture of that on his disposable camera, he’d make a copy and give it to everyone that night and put it in a scrapbook,” she said. see also Crystal, 35, confirmed the concerns as valid, writing: “I found thousands of those disposable camera photos you are talking about @hollymadison.” “I immediately ripped them up and destroyed every single one of them for you and the countless other women in them,” assured the former Playmate of the Year, who was married to Hefner from 2012 until his death at 91 in 2017. “They’re gone.” Madison has since retweeted the message with the caption, “thank you @crystalhefner.” Reps for Madison and Crystal Hefner have yet to respond to The Post’s request for comment. Meanwhile, former members of the nudie mag magnate’s inner circle claim that Hefner outfitted his mansion with hidden cameras, which recorded everyone from Playmates to police officers engaging in sexually explicit and depraved acts. Hef would then allegedly threaten to leak the damaging clips if and when anyone attempted to air his dirty laundry — of which there were allegedly mountains. Per “Secrets of Playboy,” the skin merchant has been accused of everything from orgies and drug use to sexual assault and even bestiality. In one of the more appalling incidents, former Playboy Bunny mother PJ Masten claimed she witnessed Hef force porn actress and “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace to perform a sex act on a dog. “All the guys were laughing when Linda got out of the limousine,” Masten said. “She was drunk and drugged … They got her so messed up that they made her give the German shepherd oral sex. You wanna talk about depravity? This is despicable.” Madison compared Hefner’s organization to a cult, claiming, “The reason I think the mansion was very cultlike, looking back on it, is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as, like, this really good guy. “You started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media — he’s just a nice man,’” she added. “He was a predator,” Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Sondra Theodore, 65, told The Post. “I watched him, I watched his game. And I watched a lot of girls go through [the Playboy Mansion] gates looking farm-fresh and leave looking tired and haggard.” Before the docuseries’ release, Playboy denounced the late publisher’s “abhorrent” actions. In a statement released over the weekend, the company wrote: “First and foremost, we want to say: we trust and validate women and their stories, and we strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences. As a brand with sex positivity at its core, we believe safety, security and accountability are paramount, and anything less is inexcusable.” The nudie mag firm also insisted that the Hefner family is not involved in the company, and have pledged to build “upon the aspects of our legacy that have made a positive impact, including serving as a platform for free expression and a convener of safe conversations on sex, inclusion and freedom.”
