New court documents are shedding light on a surprising chapter in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, revealing that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner reportedly reached out to the FBI multiple times in 2005 after a Playboy Playmate confided in him about being raped and trafficked.
Audra Lynn Christiansen, who was Miss October 2003, was just 23 and living at Hefner’s Beverly Hills mansion when she turned to him for help, according to a lawsuit filed by 32 Epstein victims against the United States.
The former model allegedly told Hefner that she had been trafficked to one of his wealthy acquaintances, Macau casino billionaire Stanley Ho, who passed away in 2020 and was once called China’s “Godfather of gambling.”
Christiansen reportedly asked Hefner to contact the FBI on her behalf because she believed his connections and influence would ensure her allegations were taken seriously.
“Mr. Hefner called the FBI multiple times on behalf of Ms. Christiansen to report Jeffrey Epstein,” the complaint states, as quoted by the New York Post.
These claims are part of an amended complaint filed in May in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Epstein victims argue the FBI failed to act on reports of his sexual 𝓪𝓫𝓾𝓼𝓮 dating back to 1996.
Jordan Merson, the attorney representing the victims, expressed frustration over the FBI’s attempts to dismiss the case on procedural grounds.
“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,” Merson told the Post.
According to the lawsuit, Christiansen, now 46 and known for appearing on the reality series “The Girls Next Door,” was only contacted by the FBI in October 2020, after Epstein’s death, to follow up on the information she had provided 15 years earlier.
During that 2020 call, she reportedly told the FBI that her agents had introduced her to Epstein, who wanted to meet her after her Playboy shoot was published, according to the FBI report included in the court filing.
The Minnesota-born former model had written in her 2003 “Playmate data sheet” that her turn-on was “a secure older man who makes me laugh” and her turnoffs included “being taken for granted.”
Hefner himself faced allegations of rape after his 2017 death in the “Secrets of Playboy” documentary, where women described him as a “predator,” though those claims never made it to court and he was not accused of rape while alive.
In files released by the Department of Justice last year, Ho was referred to as “the richest man in Hong Kong” in a 2011 email from Epstein to his friend Boris Nikolic, with Epstein adding that Ho “owns most of Macau . . .
the leader of the Chinese mob.”
The FBI has attempted to have the lawsuit thrown out, arguing it was “not required to investigate every complaint” it received, and the case remains pending in court, with the agency never publicly addressing He
