Hugh Hefner made multiple calls to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein back in 2005, a lawsuit reveals. However, the FBI killed the investigation to protect his “powerful friends.”
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 asked Hef to call the authorities on her behalf, hoping that his “clout” would lead to the accusations being taken seriously.
Yahoo report: 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.
According to the lawsuit, the FBI did not respond to Hefner’s tips until October 2020, when the agency contacted Christiansen. The FBI has tried to get the lawsuit dismissed by saying the bureau is “not required to investigate every complaint.”
“The fact that the FBI is trying to utilize procedural technicalities to try to avert accountability and responsibility for its failures to properly investigate Jeffrey Epstein for over 20 years should be deeply concerning to all,” the victims’ lawyer Jordan Merson told the Post. “How can you learn from errors if you do not acknowledge them?”