{"id":926403,"date":"2026-10-09T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926403\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:04:11","slug":"hugh-hefner-widow-asks-jessica-biel-reconsider-role-as-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926403\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hefner Widow Asks Jessica Biel Reconsider Role as His Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCrystal Harris<\/a>, Hugh Hefner<\/a>\u2018s former wife, is urging Jessica Biel<\/a> to rethink her decision to portray a fictionalized take on the Playboy founder\u2019s wife in Lorraine Nicholson\u2019s Playmates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarris posted a screenshot of an Instagram message<\/a> she sent to the 7th Heaven actress after her casting was announced this week. In the message, she wrote, \u201cPlease reconsider playing Hugh Hefner\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHarris and Hefner were married from 2012 to 2017, until the time of his death. She opened up<\/a> about her experience being his wife and living her 2024 memoir; Harris also spoke out against<\/a> the handling of Hefner\u2019s private documents in February by his foundation, specifically explicit scrapbooks, which she said in a statement \u201cmay include images of girls who were underage at the time and could not consent to how their images would be retained or controlled.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn Harris\u2019 message to Biel, she added, \u201cMany other woman have come forward with allegations of rape, coercion, drugging and exploitation as well. There are also deeply troubling concerns involving minors. I hope everyone involved this film takes the time to listen the women who lived it before helping Hollywood turn it back into nostalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPlaymates will mark Nicholson\u2019s directorial debut, which will tap into her frequent visits to the Playboy mansion in her childhood. Lily-Rose Depp will star alongside Indiana Elle, who starred as Amanda Seyfried\u2019s daughter in The Housemaid. Bill Pullman will star as Hefner.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Searchlight Pictures, Playmates centers on \u201cElle, a 13-year-old know-it-all who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home, and who meets Anna, one of seven hopefuls vying to be Playmate of the Month. The two form an unlikely friendship as each tries to help get what the other wants most, a magazine cover and a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n