Playboy founder Hugh Hefner repeatedly referred to as the FBI to report Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse in 2005, after a Playboy Playmate informed him she was raped and trafficked by the disgraced financier, in accordance with new particulars in a lawsuit.
Audra Lynn Christiansen — Miss October 2003 — turned to Hef for assist when she was 23 and residing at his Beverly Hills mansion, prompting the late journal writer to name the company “a number of occasions” for help, in accordance with the go well with, filed by 32 Epstein victims in opposition to the USA.
Along with the rape allegations, Christiansen mentioned she confided in Hefner that she additionally was trafficked to one in every of his wealthy mates — Macau on line casino billionaire Stanley Ho, China’s “Godfather of playing” who died in 2020, in accordance with the submitting.
She requested Hefner to name on her behalf in 2005, as a result of she felt he had legislation enforcement connections and the “clout” to her allegations had been taken critically.
“Mr. Hefner referred to as the FBI a number of occasions on behalf of Ms. Christiansen to report Jeffrey Epstein,” the criticism states.
The revelations are a part of an amended criticism filed in Might within the US District Courtroom for the Southern District of Florida by Epstein victims who cost the FBI didn’t act on a number of studies about his sexual abuse as early as 1996.
“The truth that the FBI is attempting to make the most of procedural technicalities to attempt to avert accountability and duty for its failures to correctly examine Jeffrey Epstein for over 20 years ought to be deeply regarding to all,” Jordan Merson, lawyer for the victims, informed The Put up. “How will you study from errors if you don’t acknowledge them?”
Christiansen, 46, who was a part of the truth tv sequence “The Women Subsequent Door,” was solely contacted by the FBI in October 2020, after Epstein’s demise, to observe up on the data supplied 15 years earlier, in accordance with the lawsuit.
She informed the FBI that her brokers launched her to Epstein, who needed to fulfill her after the Playboy shoot got here out, in accordance with the 2020 FBI report of the decision included within the court docket submitting.
The Minnesota-born former mannequin wrote within the 2003 “Playmate information sheet” that accompanied her nude centerfold that her turn-on was “a safe older man who makes me giggle” and her turnoffs included “being taken as a right.”
Hefner himself was accused of rape 5 years after his 2017 demise within the damning “Secrets and techniques of Playboy” documentary, the place ladies mentioned he was a “predator” who was additionally into bestiality. The claims by no means made it to court docket and Hefner wasn’t accused of rape whereas he was alive.
Within the information launched final yr by the Division of Justice, Ho is known as “the richest man in Hong Kong” in a 2011 electronic mail from Epstein to his pal Boris Nikolic, including “owns most of Macau . . . the chief of the Chinese language mob.”
The FBI tried to get the lawsuit thrown out in June, saying it was “not required to analyze each criticism” it obtained. The case remains to be earlier than the courts. The company by no means publicly addressed Hefner’s tip.
The amended submitting was first reported by Julie Brown on Substack.
— Extra reporting by Sonya Gugliara
