Hugh Hefner’s widow BLASTED by Friends star for comments on marriage

Hugh Hefner’s widow Crystal has been fiercely denounced by comedian Jon Lovitz for expressing ‘regret’ over her marriage to the Playboy founder.

Crystal exchanged vows with Hefner at the Playboy Mansion on New Year’s Eve 2012, becoming his third and final wife when she was 26 and he 86.

They remained together until his death in 2017 at the age of 91, and two years ago she released a tell-all memoir about her life in his orbit, recalling that she used to ‘find girls’ for orgies involving the two of them.

Now, the 40-year-old former Playmate has posted a candid Instagram video saying she felt remorse for ‘making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger’ and ‘learning to stay quiet when I could have spoken.’

Lovitz, 68, a habitué of the Playboy Mansion who attended Hefner’s wedding to Crystal, was distinctly unimpressed by her disclosure.

‘Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death?’ the Friends guest star sneered in the comments. ‘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?’

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Crystal for comment.

Hugh Hefner’s widow Crystal has been denounced by comedian Jon Lovitz for expressing ‘regret’ over her marriage to the Playboy founder; Hefner and Crystal pictured in 2014 

Crystal exchanged vows with Hefner at the Playboy Mansion on New Year’s Eve 2012, becoming his third and final wife when she was 26 and he 86; pictured in 2009 on his birthday 

Although Hefner and Crystal signed a prenuptial agreement, she reportedly received a $5 million lump sum upon his death, along with a four-bedroom Hollywood Hills house he had bought her in 2013 that she later sold for a further $5 million.

Crystal was a Playmate of the Month in 2009 and featured as one of Hefner’s extravagant array of lovers on his smash hit E! series The Girls Next Door.

Playboy vet Holly Madison, 46, proves she looks just as good as she did almost 20 years ago when she exited Hefner’s mansion

She became engaged to Hefner for the first time in 2010, only to dump him the following year, five days before their scheduled wedding.

‘Hef’s lifestyle isn’t the most normal lifestyle,’ she explained at the time in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest. ‘This isn’t the lifestyle for me, multiple girls around all the time, the Playboy lifestyle. I don’t know. I just wanted to be true to myself.’

She and Hefner reunited shortly thereafter and finally tied the knot at the end of 2012, to a blare of headlines about his finally having pinned down his ‘runaway bride.’ 

Among the attendees was Lovitz – a close friend of the groom – as well as Gene Simmons of KISS and baseball player Evan Longoria, no relation to Eva. 

‘Do I regret marrying Hugh Hefner? Of course I do,’ Crystal said in the Instagram video she posted this Wednesday that attracted Lovitz’s derision.

‘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 said.

Now, the 40-year-old former Playmate has posted a candid Instagram video saying she felt remorse for ‘making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger’; pictured February

Lovitz, 68, a habitué of the Playboy Mansion who attended Hefner’s wedding to Crystal, was distinctly unimpressed by her disclosure

‘Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death?’ he sneered in the comments: ‘And keeping the money, after you sold it?’

(from left) Krista and Karissa Shannon, Kendra Wilkinson, Bridget Marquardt, Hefner, Holly Madison and – as she then was – Crystal Harris are pictured in 2009 

‘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.’

She acknowledged that ‘a lot of people’ had anticipated she would ‘stay in the story that was written for me – the grateful young wife, the lucky girl,’ rather than express a more negative view of her ᴀssociation with Hefner.

‘But I’m done living in that story. Yes, I regret it, and saying that out loud is one of the most honest things I’ve done,’ said the blonde bombshell.

In her memoir Only Say Good Things, Crystal confessed that she felt ‘relief’ at the task of procuring other women for orgies with Hefner because she was thus spared the ordeal of having to be ‘Sєxual with him all alone.’

She recalled an ‘endless stream of women desperate to get into the mansion,’ which for her ‘solidified the feeling even more that I couldn’t possibly walk away. The more other people wanted what I had, the тιԍнтer I clung to it.’

They remained together until his death in 2017 at the age of 91, and two years ago she released a tell-all memoir about her life in his orbit; the couple are pictured in 2015 

After Hefner’s death, Crystal found love with a dashing Hawaii tour company owner called James Ward, whom she eloped with to the Cook Islands this April

However the group Sєx itself was not ‘about making love,’ Crystal argued in the book. ‘It was about power and control and leverage. It was a performance. I was auditioning for a part. I thought it was about my power.’

She painted a vivid picture of one orgy at the end of which Hefner ‘waved us off of him, almost pushing us to the side’ in order to ‘finish the job’ by himself.

At the moment of climax, his face ‘contorted as if he was in pain’ and she ‘panicked,’ believing he was ‘having some kind of eighty-one-year-old-man attack.’

While promoting the book, she remarked that ‘Hef was on the extreme side of narcissism, so I truly believe that he thought everybody really wanted to be there.’ 

In her view, Hefner imagined the women in his life ‘really enjoyed the Sєx, really enjoyed the old movies, loved literally everything he enjoyed,’ via the Guardian.

After Hefner’s death, Crystal found love with a dashing Hawaii tour company owner called James Ward, whom she eloped with to the Cook Islands this April.