Playboy Hugh Hefner marries his 'runaway bride'
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hugh Hefner is celebrating the new year as a married man once again.
The 86-year-old Playboy magazine founder exchanged vows with his "runaway bride," Crystal Harris, at a private Playboy Mansion ceremony on New Year's Eve. Harris, a 26-year-old "Playmate of the Month" in 2009, broke off a previous engagement to Hefner just before they were to be married in 2011.
Playboy said on Tuesday that the couple celebrated at a New Year's Eve party at the mansion with guests that included comic Jon Lovitz, Gene Simmons of KISS and baseball star Evan Longoria.
The bride wore a strapless gown in soft pink, Hefner a black tux. Hefner's been married twice before but lived the single life between 1959 and 1989.
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'lecherous old man' and 'cradle robber' doesn't it? I wonder if ol' Hugh had enough sense to do a pre-nup. This is just another Ann Nicole Smith and the billionaire story, except the names have been changed.
Some of these comments seem pretty hypocritical, although I think they are borne of jealousy more than anything. If you cringe at the thought of these two in bed, is it the wrinkles that bother you, or the loose skin and grey hair? Because if that causes you grief, then do you have the same reaction when you see an obese woman or man with their skinny husband or wife, and you can't help but imagine the wrinkles and layers of blubber present during fun time? Do you look a woman who's had a mastectomy walking with her husband an think eeewwww?  Aren't we now told that we should accept everyone and every combination, because love is all that matters? Then you better accept this couple.Â
im guessin she signed a contract that states she dont have to touch him , just be arm candy and put on a show for a few million. Â
Congratulations Hef and Crystal. Anyone who doesn't congratulate the happy couple because of their age difference is an ageist.
 @The Resistance Don't know if you're joking or being sarcastic, but I actually agree with you.  Live and let live.
OMG! There isn't enough liquor in the world to get me to climb in bed with that wrinkled up old man! LOL!Â
 @mjoh In comparison to a few of those "beauties" getting married in Washington State recently, this seems easier to stomach. Â
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 @last boyscout  @mjoh "Some of these comments seem pretty hypocritical, although I think they are borne of jealousy more than anything. If you cringe at the thought of these two in bed, is it the wrinkles that bother you, or the loose skin and grey hair? Because if that causes you grief, then do you have the same reaction when you see an obese woman or man with their skinny husband or wife, and you can't help but imagine the wrinkles and layers of blubber present during fun time? Do you look a woman who's had a mastectomy walking with her husband an think eeewwww?  Aren't we now told that we should accept everyone and every combination, because love is all that matters? Then you better accept this couple."
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- Yet I see you have your limits of what is acceptable, and what isn't. So you are giving people grief over their opinions because................?
I suppose the ones that are disgusted with this arrangement would be happier if he married a man instead. At least he's got the right idea.Â
 @last boyscout Spoken like a true bigot !
 @dougrpdx If one were to judge you by the majority of your comments on this issue, it's you that harbors some sort of odd repulsion with these two people of different ages. Seek help Doug.
Who wants to marry their grandfather?? UGH! (sarcasm abounding...)
There are younger men she could have done worse with. Â Ever seen pics of Dog The Bounty Hunter, Ron Jeremy, Billy The Exterminator, Ted Nugent? Â Blechhhhh.
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Thats just cause you are old enough to remember HH back in the day... :) jk
 Happy new years grammy....
 @kramr The only difference between then and now is that he's just an older slime (just my opinion, of course).  As for your dig.....you gotta do WAY better than that to get my feathers ruffled up.  Besides, I'm a sucker for handsome, sweet, **younger** men....I'm married to a man almost a decade my junior so I won't ever walk into the bathroom, catch him naked bending over the tub and think someone had secretly let an old goat into the house.  Duh.
@Sundowner not trying to ruffle feathers, just joke'n aournd. Wow, grammy's  is a cougar....... good to know [thumbs up] :)
What a sad pathetic young woman.. She only feels she can make money by marrying an old pervert... Very sad day for both of them..
Geez I thought she was 40 yrs old from the look of this picture. Â Either way, this is disgusting.
Ewwwwwww. How could a young, gorgeous woman want to get near that repulsive, ugly old weirdo??? He and his brother are two of the ugliest men ever. They were never anything to look at, even in their younger days. Horrors. Not all the money on the planet would be worth having. YUCK! He shuffles around in his pajamas and that goofy captain's hat. He's got to be completely senile. These women are insane to tolerate that geezer just for money. Even "the mansion" is horrible. Everything is about 40 years out of date.Â
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 @goldie HUH ?
Hugh Hefner is an American icon,like it or not,and that guy didn't live alone , won't die alone either.
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 @shadowwalker I think having a kid is impossible.. If you know what I mean ~
Keeping Pfizer in business one Playboy Bunny orgy at a time... true story, Google it.Â
I am sure Chrystal Harris got a nice little rock to do the aisle walk with ol' prune butt.
I've heard of women having a "daddy" complex, but a "granddaddy" complex??
@StealthActivist If the bank account is large enough, there are some women who will.Â
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I think I'm gonna blow chunks..
Hope the pre-nup is iron clad. The only reason this girl came back is the $$$. She ran out of money after pawning the first engagement ring, so she had to come back for more. It's ridiculous to think any couple with 60 years apart in age would have anything in common.Â
"Till death do us part" surely isn't going to be that long of a sentence for her to live out.
Don't worry - they won't be together that long even! The only reason for a beautiful young girl to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, not to mention that it is Hughie, is money - she cements her modleing career, and may be able to claim some of his fortune when he dies.
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50 years ago Heff was cool but now he's just pathetic and these women....uggh....they could be applying their skills in the world serving many rather than serving the pathetic ego of just one.Â
Reminds me of the song, Lucky Man by ELP.
 Hope he got a prenup.....
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Thats a great picture...... Hugh's got that sheet eating grin saying I'm 86 friggin years old and look what I just married. LOL
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I remember reading someone asking Hugh what is best pick up line is........ His response was " Hi, My name is Hugh Hefner
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"Thats a great picture...... Hugh's got that sheet eating grin saying I'm 86 friggin years old and look what I just married. LOL"
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Do you really believe that she married him for either love or romance? I don't believe that you do. Everyone knows that this is a business arrangement, pure and simple. Of course there's a prenuptial agreement that reduces this marriage to an employment contract defining her rate of pay, bonuses, confidentiality all focused on protecting his ego and reputation and defining her responsibilities in the Manson. That "Sheet-Eating Grin" is Heff acknowledging the farce and self-consciously acknowledging what everybody else knows.
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Funny thing is that all the Fundamentalist / Family Values Christians will recognize this "marriage" as legitimate and will not protest or condemn it although it has nothing to do with love, romance, pro-creation or any of the social values that these judgmental Christians presume to know that God finds pleasing.  They will not protest it because it passes the only test that matters to Fundamentalist Christians; one man (old pathetic decrepit man with gobs of money) and one woman (pathetic young woman selling herself to a sham marriage contract).
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@Icarus @kramr Geez, what is your problem? It's not up to Christians or anyone else to support or oppose this marriage, why do some people think everything requires social approval or condemnation.Â