Hugh Hefner’s widow, Crystal Harris, name-dropped a comedian she claimed was a frequent visitor at the Playboy Mansion.
“Jon Lovitz, you were Playboy Mansion’s No. 1 customer,” Harris, 40, said during the Tuesday, October 27, episode of Lisa Guerrero’s “Unleashed” podcast. “You were, like, one of the biggest pervs there.”
Harris (formerly known as Crystal Hefner) claimed that Lovitz, 69, was “up there” at the famed Los Angeles mansion “all the time.”
“And his eyes would go front to back, all the women that walked through the door,” she added. “And at the parties, he’d be the lurker. And I remember him every time, every party.”
Lovitz responded to Harris’ claims while out in L.A. on Tuesday evening, as seen in a video obtained by Page Six.
“Anytime someone tells me I’m No. 1, it’s a compliment,” the Saturday Night Live alum said before shrugging off the claim that he “lurked” around the Playboy Mansion.
“Hugh Hefner was one of the nicest, most generous people I’ve ever met, and all of his friends know it,” he concluded. “That’s all I have to say about that.”
Harris’ comments about Lovitz come after he left a negative comment on a July Instagram post where she shared her regrets about marrying Hefner, who died of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure at age 91 in 2017.
“Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death? And keeping the money, after you sold it? And all the times your mother was at the mansion? And do you regret all he did for you? And do you regret leaving him and then coming back to marry him?” Lovitz, who attended the pair’s wedding in 2012, wrote at the time.
Looking back on his response, Harris said on Tuesday, “He got completely attacked in my comments because women were like, ‘Oh, just because someone buys you something, your own husband, then it means that they can assault you or hurt you?’”
In her Instagram post at the time, Harris — who has repeatedly claimed that Hefner sexually abused and isolated her — admitted that she regretted tying the knot with the Playboy founder at such a young age.
“I regret being in my mid-20s and thinking that marrying one of the most famous men in the world meant I had finally made it, that I finally mattered or had value,” she wrote. “I regret the years I spent making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger. I regret learning to stay quiet when I could have spoken. I regret the version of myself that I had to abandon just to survive in that environment. I regret that it took me as long as it did to understand what was actually happening — like, years.”
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