Hugh Hefner dumped personal sex tapes into the sea before death fearing his secret sexual trysts with A-list stars could be exposed

Hugh Hefner was prompted to dump the tapes after longtime friend Pamela Anderson had two sex tapes leaked, one with Tommy Lee and one with Bret Michaels
UPDATED NOV 25, 2018

Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner dumped a casket full of his personal sex tapes in the ocean ensuring that no one would see them, decades before he died at the age of 91 in 2017.

Hef entrusted Playboy Mansion head of security Joe Piastro with overseeing the sealing of video and audio recordings of his most secret affairs in a casket lined with cement and tossing it into the Pacific Ocean in the 1990s, The Sun reported.

"Hugh explained that he didn’t want anyone’s lives, marriages or careers to be destroyed by what he had In his library," the source told the publication, adding "Joe did it and never told anyone."

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