Hef dumped at the altar!

his 25-year-old fiancee, a Playmate from his magazine, changed her mind.
Hefner (85) and Crystal Harris were due to tie the knot in front of more than 300 guests at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Saturday. It would have been Hefner’s third marriage.
“The wedding is off. Crystal has had a change of heart. The break-up is a heart-breaker, but better now than after the marriage,” Hefner wrote on Twitter.
He also denied a report on celebrity website TMZ.com that the couple had had “a nasty argument” on the phone.
Adding insult to injury, he said Harris took his favourite pet, a cocker spaniel named Charlie, when she moved out of the mansion.
On the other hand, Hefner said he has been consoled by his coterie of old pals and his former wife Kimberley Conrad, and announced he would be hosting a screening of “Runaway Bride”.
Hefner proposed to Harris on Christmas Eve, he announced on Twitter at the time. Since then Hefner has been planning the nuptials in between serving as hands-on editor of Playboy and entertaining family and friends at movie screenings and backgammon games.
A two-hour TV special featuring wedding highlights was due to air on July 13 on the women’s cable channel Lifetime.
Hefner, known around the world by his nickname, Hef, has championed sexual freedom and civil rights, published stories challenging McCarthyism and the Vietnam War, and backed gay causes and the legalisation of marijuana.
With a cover featuring a calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe, Hefner put together the first issue of Playboy on the kitchen table in his Chicago apartment in 1953 at a cost of US$600. It sold 51 000 copies – enough to finance a second issue – and led to a multimillion-dollar international corporation, which Hefner recently took private.
Harris met Hefner at his annual Halloween party in 2008. She moved in to the mansion after a few weeks and became Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in December 2009. She will be on the cover of the magazine’s upcoming July issue. – Reuters.