Monday, December 27, 2010

Hugh Hefner engaged to girlfriend, 60 years his junior




'Playboy' mogul Hugh Hefner has got engaged to girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, just months after divorcing his second wife.

The 84-year-old tweeted last night that he and his girlfriend, six decades his junior, had got engaged on Christmas Eve.

"After the movie tonight, Crystal and I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve. When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory," he wrote on his Twitter page.

And later on, to clear up any confusion, Hefner wrote, "Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn't mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all," he wrote.

It was while studying psychology at San Diego State University, that Crystal started modelling and went on to pose nude in Playboy.

She met Hefner on Halloween in 2008 and started dating him in January 2009 while he was also dating identical twin glamour models Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

But he ended his relationship with the twins in January this year and has remained monogamous to Crystal since.

Hefner, who founded Playboy in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe as his first cover girl, has been married twice before.