Hugh Hefner’s Widow Crystal Harris Asks Jessica Biel to ‘Please Reconsider’ Playing His Wife: ‘I Experienced Sexual, Emotional…Physical Abuse’

Crystal Harris, who was married to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017, is asking Jessica Biel to reconsider playing a fictional version of Hefner’s wife in the upcoming film “Playmates.” After Biel’s casting was announced, Harris posted her message to Biel on Instagram, saying “Please reconsider playing Hugh Hefner’s wife if this […] Crystal Harris, who was married to Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017, is asking Jessica Biel to reconsider playing Hefner's wife in "Playmates." Crystal Harris, who was married to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner until his death in 2017, is asking Jessica Biel to reconsider playing a fictional version of Hefner’s wife in the upcoming film “Playmates.” After Biel’s casting was announced, Harris posted her message to Biel on Instagram, saying “Please reconsider playing Hugh Hefner’s wife if this film intends to romanticize him or the Playboy world.

I was actually his wife, and I experienced sexual, emotional, financial and physical abuse in that relationship.” Lorraine Nicholson, the daughter of Jack Nicholson, is writing and directing the Searchlight film that also stars Bill Pullman as Hefner as well as Lily-Rose Depp and “The HousemaidIndiana Elle. “Many other woman have come forward with allegations of rape, coercion, drugging