Playboy founder Hugh Hefner marries his 'runaway bride' at last
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his then-fiance, Crystal Harris, pose in June 2011. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Posted: 01/01/2013
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.
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