Hugh Hefner Called the FBI on Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 After Model Was Attacked
Late magazine mogul Hugh Hefner made multiple calls to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein back in 2005, a lawsuit reveals.
According to the New York Post, model Audra Lynn Christiansen was living at Hefner’s infamous Beverly Hills mansion when she told the publisher that she had been sexually assaulted and trafficked to Macau casino billionaire Stanley Ho by Epstein. Christiansen, who was 23 years old at the time, asked Hef to call the authorities on her behalf, hoping that his “clout” would lead to the accusations being taken seriously.
Hefner, who died in 2017 at the age of 91, called the FBI “multiple times on behalf of Ms. Christiansen to report Jeffrey Epstein,” according to an amended complaint filed in the lawsuit brought by a cohort of 32 of Epstein’s alleged victims against the United States. The group alleges that the FBI failed to investigate numerous complaints against the disgraced financier, who ultimately did face numerous charges of solicitation of prostitution and eventually was found dead in his jail cell while facing one charge of sex trafficking of minors and one charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors in 2019.