Hugh Hefner's widow reveals he filmed celebrities and politicians in orgies without their consent

Crystal Hefner, widow of Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, revealed in her memoir that her husband hid small cameras in his bedroom which he used to record "A-list celebrities" without their knowledge. In addition, Hefner said that he kept "videos of wild orgies, also with celebrities and politicians and business leaders, some of whom were married." Crystal Hefner's book is set to be released Jan. 23.

'It's my bedroom, my house'

Crystal said so in an interview with The New York Post to promote her book "Only Said the Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself," in which she recounts her experiences with the Hefner. According to the former Playboy bunny, Hefner merely shrugged his shoulders when she asked him what the cameras were for and confessed to her that "I used to do a lot of filming. VHS. I had hours of video, hundreds of sexy tapes." When she questioned him whether the people being recorded had been warned, his answer was blunt: "It's my bedroom, my house."

Crystal Hefner realized there was something odd when she noticed that one of the wooden panels in the room had a circular cutout: "I think [the cameras] were out of commission by the time I got there, but there ... were these carved wood panels. And one of the panels on the right had a circular cutout."

The book also delves into Hefner's obsession with recording and photographing the young women who accompanied him naked at all times. Crystal notes that he found thousands of such photos stored in shoeboxes in the attic of the mansion, theoretically accessible to any of the 70 people who worked in the building, and proceeded to tear them up manually. "I just thought, ‘If this was me in these photos, what would I want done with them?’ So I just ripped them up by hand, all of them," she said.