Jon Lovitz fires back at Crystal Hefner’s ‘perv’ claims

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The Saturday Night Live alum who Crystal Hefner identified as the Playboy Mansion’s “No. 1 customer” is firing back at the former reality TV star.

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In a recent appearance on the Lisa Guerrero Unleashed podcast, Hugh Hefner’s widow branded Jon Lovitz, 69, as one of the Playboy Mansion’s “biggest pervs.”

“He would be up there all the time,” Crystal said of Lovitz at the estate, according to Us Weekly. “His eyes would go front to back, all the women that walked through the door. And at the parties, he’d be the lurker. And I remember him every time, every party.”

The 40-year-old former Playmate also claimed Lovitz’s dog “peed all over the place.”

Lovitz was asked about Crystal’s remarks as he was exiting a Los Angeles restaurant, but he called her claims “a compliment.”

“Any time someone says I’m No. 1, it’s a compliment,” he said in a video obtained by Page Six.

When asked if he “lurked around” the mansion, the comedian brushed off the insinuation.

“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.”

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After she heard about Lovitz’s response, Crystal was unimpressed by his dismissal of her claims, calling him “part of the problem.”

“I think many men who came up to that mansion [and] were very sexist and misogynistic are all part of that problem,” she told Page Six.

“If I could dismantle that toxic masculinity and patriarchy just a little bit, I will feel happy,” she added. “It’s very sad.”

Crystal also bashed Lovitz after he criticized her for accepting Hugh’s financial support.

“Jon Lovitz had mentioned to me that Hef had bought something for me or paid for something and that I have no reason to speak because of that,” she told the outlet. “I think his thinking is very outdated. That’s really sad that, just because someone buys you something, it guarantees silence.”

Crystal and Jon have been waging a war of words for months

Crystal began dating the late Playboy founder, who died in 2017 at 91, when she was 21 years old. The couple got engaged in 2010 when she was 24 and Hugh was 84.

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Her remarks about Lovitz come after she shared her regrets about marrying Hugh Hefner when she was in her 20s in a July Instagram video. Her comments led to Lovitz branding her a gold digger.

“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?” he commented on one of her Instagram videos.

“And do you regret all he did for you? And do you regret leaving him and then coming back to marry him?”

After their public social media dustup, Crystal told the Daily Mail that Lovitz had been the Playboy Mansion’s “biggest customer.”

She also brought up the fact that Lovitz’s dog liked to pee inside the home when he’d visit.

“We had also asked that Jon’s adorable rescue dog, Jerry, not come back to the mansion because he repeatedly urinated on the curtains and damaged the property,” she told the outlet.

“Whether that contributed to his feelings toward me, I can’t say. I don’t have any ill will toward Jon, and I genuinely wish him well.”

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Crystal also said that her “reflections aren’t motivated by money or resentment, but by honesty.”

“I’m at a point in my life where I’m no longer afraid to speak openly about my own experiences, and I think there’s value in that conversation,” she said.

“It’s disappointing to see someone who spent time enjoying that environment criticize a woman for speaking honestly about her own life. For years, there was an expectation that women should stay quiet to protect powerful men or preserve a certain image. I’m simply no longer willing to do that.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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