The comedian reportedly scared the women at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.
Model Crystal Harris, the widow of Hugh Hefner, calls MAGA-coded comedian Jon Lovitz one of Hollywood’s “biggest perverts.”
Harris, 40, was 21 when she met Playboy Magazine founder Hefner, who was 60 years older than her. She became his third wife in 2012, when Hefner was 86 and Harris was 26. Harris lived in the Playboy mansion from 2009 until 2017, when Hefner died at age 91.
Harris has since called her time at the Playboy Mansion “traumatic” and her marriage “emotionally abusive.” In an episode of the podcast Lisa Guerrero unleashedHarris revealed that Hefner was far from the only toxic man in her life at the time.
Karissa Shannon, Kristina Shannon, Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris in 2009 in Culver City, California.
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Saturday evening liveLovitz was “Playboy Mansion’s number one customer,” Harris claimed. She added that the Merry Gilmore The star “was up there all the time, and his eyes were going back and forth (looking at) every woman that came through the door, and at parties he was like the prowler.”
Lovitz, who defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Effectiveness and expressed support for the president, was a close friend of Hefner. In July, more than a decade after Lovitz attended Harris and Hefner’s New Year’s Eve wedding, Harris and Lovitz clashed online after Harris said in an Instagram video that she regretted marrying Hefner. She also said she regretted “learning to stay silent when I could have spoken.”
Lovitz pushed back in the comments. He questioned Harris’ regrets, alluding to the $5 million lump sum she received upon his death and the four-bedroom Hollywood Hills home that Hefner bought from her in 2013 and which she later resold for another $5 million.
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“Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in after he died? Lovitz wrote. “And keeping the money after you sold it? And all the times your mother was at the mansion? And do you regret everything he did for you? And do you regret leaving him and then coming back to marry him?”
Jon Lovitz poses with a dog after a panel for “The New Celebrity Apprentice.” REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Harris responded to Lovitz’s questions in a statement to Daily Mail.
“People often reduce my marriage to assumptions about financial benefits, but that ignores the reality of what I went through,” she said at the time. “It’s disappointing to see someone who has spent time enjoying this environment criticize a woman for speaking honestly about her own life. For years, women have been expected to stay silent to protect powerful men or maintain a certain image. I’m just not willing to do that anymore.”
Harris further humiliated Lovitz by telling Guerrero that his dog, Jerry, had “urinated repeatedly” on the curtains inside the Playboy mansion.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Lovitz for comment.
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