Posted by April MacIntyre Dec 26, 2010, 22:34 GMT
Hugh Hefner is checking out of Planet Earth with the last laugh.
11/17/2010 - Hugh M. Hefner, Crystal Harris - 20th Annual Pen Center USA Literary Awards Festival - Arrivals - The Beverly Hills Hotel, Crystal Ballroom - Beverly Hills, CA, USA © Travis Jourdain / PR Photos
The American entrepreneurial 84 year-old has a type, and that is twenty something year-old blondes who have long hair. He tossed aging Holly Madison to the curb and replaced her with a younger doppelganger: Crystal Harris, whose parents hail from the UK, and now live in San Diego, California.
Some people are upset at this Twittered news and think that this is gross. Perhaps you are just revolted by the idea of older men getting jiggy with a young woman (or man), and some think Hef's doing just right and envy the spry bon vivante.
from Twitter:
Hugh HefnerWe appreciate all the congratulations from our friends & fans on Twitter.2 hours ago
Hugh HefnerYes, 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.16 hours ago
This is the "third time's the charm" venture down the aisle for Hef. He wed first wife Mildred in 1949 (kids Christie, 58, and David, 55) and divorced in 1959. In 1989, he wed Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad (kids Marston, 20, and Cooper, 19). Their divorce finalized last year.
It is a primal male instinct to want to have sex with younger women. That's what a lot of researchers (male ones, interestingly) claim anyway. Women are cursed with bionic noses, and often are repulsed by the smell of old men, that grandpa, musty, ancient, sour B.O. that plagues many older fellows. Maybe Hef is in his robe so much because he showers four times a day. We have a lot of questions.
The survival of the dirty man gene is now met with the modern Cougar phenomenon, as older women take younger lovers. But high profile Cougar relationships seem to fizzle out too. Look at Francesca Annis and Ralph Fiennes, for eleven years they were an item.
It appears that copious amounts of money seems to be the biggest lubricant for all these May-December couplings. Writer Charles Bukowski said, ""Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing." Bukowski also said, "you boys can keep your virginsgive me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. "
Hef has been kicking death's "hot" ass for a very long time.
