- 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.
- He became known as a First Amendment martyr for his legal problems over onstage language, and later referred to his wife in his act as the "beautiful mama with the long red hair."
- One time nightclub singer and stripper.
- Survived by a daughter
- Friedman was working as a stripper under the name Honey Harlowe (a.k.a. Hot Honey Harlowe) when she met Lenny Bruce, then a fledgling comic, in a Baltimore hotel coffee shop.
- At 17, after falling into disreputable company, she was serving a year in a state prison.
- Valerie Perrine played her in the movie "Lenny".
- Author of the autobiography, "Honey, The Lives and loves of Lenny's Shady Lady".
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