“Hugh [Hefner] was terrified of the world finding out everything about his past. He had kept a treasure chest of memories of his life with all these beautiful women dating back from the 1950s to the mid-1990s,” an insider revealed about the late Playboy founder to The Sun Friday.
The insider continued, “Some famous male movie stars, too, were in those videos and, had that come out, it would have been a huge scandal. Hef also had thousands of photographs taken at photo shoots or given to him by the girls over the years.”
“Marilyn [Monroe] was definitely in them, as well as many superstars who graced the pages of his magazine,” the source claimed. “Some of the women were in relationships and others never even made the magazine but simply were partying with him.”
“He got so upset and paranoid that he decided it was best to have them disappear,” the source explained. “He didn’t trust people to burn them in case they got stolen, so he charged Joe [Piastro] with getting rid of them in the ocean. Joe had been his trusted head of security for years and had saved Hugh from many embarrassing situations in the past.” – READ MORE