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Crystal Hefner hits back at Jon Lovitz for “sexist” response to her claim he was “one of the biggest pervs” at the Playboy Mansion.
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“Any time someone says I’m No. 1, it’s a compliment,” the comedian quipped on Tuesday.
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“I think Jon Lovitz is part of the problem,” said Hefner. “Many men who came up to that mansion [and] were very sexist and misogynistic are all part of that problem.”
Crystal Hefner is not laughing at Jon Lovitz’s joke.
After the former Playboy Playmate revealed he had been the “Playboy Mansion’s No. 1 customer,” the paparazzi caught up with Lovitz as he left a Los Angeles restaurant Tuesday night. “Any time someone says I’m No. 1, it’s a compliment,” quipped the comedian.
But Hefner didn’t find it funny — and she hit back at the “misogynistic” mockery.
“I think Jon Lovitz is part of the problem,” she told Page Sixon Wednesday. “I think many men who came up to that mansion [and] were very sexist and misogynistic are all part of that problem. If I could dismantle that toxic masculinity and patriarchy just a little bit, I will feel happy. It’s very sad.”
As an example, Hefner pointed to Lovitz’s public criticism of her in July after she said on Instagram that she regretted marrying Hugh Hefner, the comedian’s friend who died in 2017 at the age of 91.
“Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death?” Lovitz commented on the widow’s post. “And keeping the money, after you sold it?… And do you regret all he did for you?”
Hefner told Page Six: “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. I think his thinking is very outdated. That’s really sad that, just because someone buys you something, it guarantees silence.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Lovitz for comment.
When this all started over the summer, the model’s followers defended her in the comments, which Hefner recalled on Tuesday’s episode of Lisa Guerrero Unleashed, reigniting her beef with Lovitz.
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“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?'” said Hefner. “I’m like, ‘Jon Lovitz, you were Playboy Mansion’s No. 1 customer. You were one of the biggest pervs there. Sit down!'”
The comedian was a fixture at the infamous party pad “all the time,” she told Guerrero. “And 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.”
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