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.
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.