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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner repeatedly called the FBI to report Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse in 2005, after a Playboy Playmate told him she was raped and trafficked by the disgraced financier, according to new details in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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Audra Lynn Christiansen \u2014 Miss October 2003 \u2014 turned to Hef for help when she was 23 and living at his Beverly Hills mansion, prompting the late magazine publisher to call the agency \u201cmultiple times\u201d for assistance, according to the suit, filed by 32 Epstein victims against the United States.<\/p>\n

In addition to the rape allegations, Christiansen said she confided in Hefner that she also was trafficked to one of his rich friends \u2014 Macau casino billionaire Stanley Ho, China\u2019s \u201cGodfather of gambling\u201d who died in 2020, according to the filing.<\/p>\n

She asked Hefner to call on her behalf in 2005, because she felt he had law enforcement connections and the \u201cclout\u201d to her allegations were taken seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Hefner called the FBI multiple times on behalf of Ms. Christiansen to report Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n

The revelations are part of an amended complaint filed in May in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida by Epstein victims who charge the FBI failed to act on multiple reports about his sexual abuse as early as 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the FBI is trying to utilize procedural technicalities to try to avert accountability and responsibility\u00a0for its failures to properly investigate Jeffrey Epstein for over 20 years should be deeply concerning to all,\u201d Jordan Merson, lawyer for the victims, told The Post. \u201cHow can you learn from errors if you do not acknowledge them?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Christiansen, 46, who was part of the reality television\u00a0series\u00a0\u201cThe Girls Next Door,\u201d\u00a0was only contacted by the FBI in October 2020, after Epstein\u2019s death, to follow up on the information provided 15 years earlier, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

She told the FBI that her agents introduced her to Epstein, who wanted to meet her after the Playboy shoot came out, according to the 2020 FBI report of the call included in the court filing.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota-born former model wrote in the 2003 \u201cPlaymate data sheet\u201d that accompanied her nude centerfold that her turn-on was \u201ca secure older man who makes me laugh\u201d and her turnoffs included \u201cbeing taken for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hefner himself was accused of rape five years after his 2017 death in the damning \u201cSecrets of Playboy\u201d documentary, where women said he was a \u201cpredator\u201d who was also into bestiality. The claims never made it to court and Hefner wasn\u2019t accused of rape while he was alive.<\/p>\n

In the files released last year by the Department of Justice, Ho is referred to as \u201cthe richest man in Hong Kong\u201d in a 2011 email from Epstein to his friend Boris Nikolic, adding \u201cowns most of Macau . . . the leader of the Chinese mob.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The FBI tried to get the lawsuit thrown out in June, saying it was \u201cnot required to investigate every complaint\u201d it received. The case is still before the courts. The agency never publicly addressed Hefner\u2019s tip.<\/p>\n

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The amended filing was first reported by Julie Brown on Substack.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional reporting by Sonya Gugliara<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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