- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHarriet Elizabeth Jolliff
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Honey Bruce Friedman was born on August 15, 1927 in Manila, Arkansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Dance Hall Racket (1953), Princess of the Nile (1954) and Lenny (1974). She was married to Lenny Bruce, Michael Sekoian and Jeffrey Friedman. She died on September 12, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- SpousesLenny Bruce(June 15, 1951 - January 21, 1957) (divorced, 1 child)Michael Sekoian(March 29, 1946 - February 7, 1947) (divorced)Jeffrey Friedman(? - September 12, 2005) (her death)
- ChildrenBrandie Kathleen Bruce
- In 2003, she was one of the many people who signed a petition requesting New York Gov. George Pataki to give Lenny Bruce a posthumous pardon for obscenity.
- As a teenager, was incarcerated at Florida's Raiford Prison. At the time, she was the youngest white woman ever sentenced to do time there.
- Her former husband Lenny Bruce tried to reform her and turn her into a respectable singer under the name of "The Singing Southern Belle, Honey Michelle".
- Portrayed by Valerie Perrine in the 1974 movie "Lenny," starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role.
- Onetime nightclub singer who was working as a stripper under the name Honey Harlowe when she met Lenny Bruce, then a fledgling comic, in a Baltimore hotel coffee shop. They were married in 1951.
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