I don't believe that it actually was how it looks. He was a Clown asset, but not by choice. He had a brilliant idea about how to monetize sex legally and stylishly. The Clowns saw Playboy as the perfect opportunity for a honeypot and the coopted him. Everybody who was anybody wanted to be seen in the Playboy nightclubs. And long after the clubs were gone, invites to those lavish parties that Heff used to throw at the Playboy mansion were sought after by everyone.
What the celebrities and the politicians didn't know was that there were hidden cameras everywhere recording everything. A lot of people were blackmailed by the Clowns with that shit.
Enty posted a huge blind about this months ago. Heff wasn't all bad. He was just a dude who liked pretty young blonds and lots of sex.
Getting old is a real bitch. You get all wrinkly and fug and the dick don't work no more, so all you can do with the pretty girls is pose. Heff didn't destroy everything. According to Enty, after he died, a lot of the photos and videos were still in an underground room beneath the mansion. Many of the people in those images are long retired, no longer care, old, or dead. The mansion had become rundown. The Playboy brand was long in decline and wasn't making much money anymore. Heff didn't have the money to keep it up. He was also old and his health was declining.
The son was trying to prepare the house for sale so all of the shit that was in that underground room was likely permanently archived or destroyed.
End of an era.