Who says May-Miss December romances don't work?
Hugh Hefner, the 84-year-old Viagra-popping founder of Playboy, is tying the knot for the third time.
This time the lucky gal is 24-year-old Crystal Harris, December 2009 playmate of the month.
“When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears,” Hefner posted on his Twitter account. "This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory."
“Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring," he clarified later for those asking if it was merely a Christmas present or a step forward for the couple.
Hefner posted that he and Harris spent the night before Christmas watching a movie, then exchanging gifts. Hefner had a few for his girlfriend, which Harris tweeted pictures of, including the legendary diamond Playboy watch.
His big gift was the engagement ring. It was a "memorable Christmas Eve together," Hefner tweeted.
Video: The world's ultimate playboy gets engaged
Hefner's love life has, of course, been well documented – including the popular reality show showcasing a trio of girlfriends in "The Girls Next Door."
Hefner and his previous wife, 1988 playmate of the year Kimberley Conrad, were married in 1989 and separated in 1998. They divorced this year. Now Hefner will walk down the aisle half a century after his first marriage in 1959 to Mildred Williams.
But if you think Hef might not be the exact icon of monogamy or a perfect relationship, he begs to differ. In an interview with RadarOnline.com after the breakup of Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, he said more than anyone, he knows all of the sides to a relationship – and what makes one work.
"I was married and completely faithful for eight years," he told Radar. "I lived a single life, a playboy lifestyle, before and after it, but while I was married I was faithful to it." Hefner told the New York Times magazine in July that he uses Viagra – which he called "God's little helper" – a couple of times a week.
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she looks to be preggers too, he can be daddy and great great grandfather to her and the child. Ewwwww.
OHHHHHH......IM GONNA THROW UP.!!!!!!!!
Sickening...maybe he sleeps with a body suit on at night so she won't see all the wrinkle skin....
The absolute best thing I can say is, it's a free country (up to now).
She probably cried from sensory overload when she opened that ring box and realized that at age 24, she was marrying a nearly 100 year old man, and had struck pay dirt. I guess Holly aged out before she could get the old creepy-crawley to the alter. She had jealously guarded her stake too. It must have been a shocker, to be "put out" after years and years of degrading work, only to see teenage twins and I guess this one, move in on your claim. Prospecting looks like a hard, all or nothing, job.
Hugh states, "This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memeory." Hell, at 84 it's probably his only Christmas weekend in memory!!
Hopefully the last one. I am sick of the @sshole.
I am sure deep down he knows what a useless piece of sh.t he is.
Please please show me a 24 year old man engaged to an 84 year old woman
thats because an 84 year old man can still make babies whereas an 84 year old woman's "baby factor" has been shut down for probably 30 years or so.
@angelo
yea, theoretically if the 84 year old man's sperm can still make a baby but the baby is going to be a retarded mutant baby. Because sperm is produced throughout a male's lifetime, the mutation rate for sperm is much higher than that of the egg. At 84, assuming the sperm is still viable, it's going to have so much mutations that either the kid is going to have genetic issues or the kid's future children are going to have some sort of genetic issue. Either way it's NOT going to be healthy.
More importantly, nature never intended for men to have children beyond a certain age, because early humans died young (you were considered LUCKY if you lived long enough to get cancer, a typically age-related disease). Women tend to have much longer lifespans than men, which is why nature evolved menopause for females. Evolution wants the fittest progeny, NOT the progeny of some guy who is only alive because science has progressed to the point where he can have the best medical care AND reproduce (thanks to viagra). In the mammalian world, males tend to live long enough to reproduce in their prime and that's it (look at lions. The male of the pride either gets killed in battle or gets replaced by a younger model after a short period, at which time, the younger stud kills off the older males progeny and then gets to help himself to the females).
Actually nancy, I recall reading in the news some time ago about an old woman engaged to a young guy. And she wasn't rich I think......
Queen Elizabeth II is 84. Hook us up.
This is the most bizarre thing to occur when the people is boring and find somebody wants to catch more that deserve . The end is in corner : the man dies and she spent the fortune without control...I believe is better that he spent all his money with the poor and after He could to propose again if she really wants get marry with him..
Creepy guy! Looks (and acts) like a turtle!
there are some great funny responses in here, I appreciate a good laugh! thanks to all.
Woudn't that be weird if she was marrying him for his money? I know, that's pretty weird.
The man is on a Viagra drip. A nurse administers it to him nightly. Can you imagine- Call up the secretary and have the lady escorted to the gentleman's bedroom please, thank you.
Let's chalk one up for the world's oldest profession!
I am reporting abuse....what this girl is doing to a mentally disturbed, immature dirty old man who have never knows what mature love is all about. Lust, yes. I would accuse him of abuse but he is too far beyond the benefit of therapy to be aware of the shallowness of his life. Overall, it is a very sad state of "affairs" for the both of them.
He made a carrier of being a dirt bag.