At 86, Hugh Hefner ties the knot

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has tied the knot again - with the blonde Playmate who ditched him five days before their planned wedding in 2011.

Harris was Playboy magazine's Miss December 2009 and appeared on the July 2011 cover of the adult magazine with a "runaway bride" sticker covering her bottom half. Credit: Playboy

Octogenarian Playboy founder Hugh Hefner briefly swapped his iconic silk pajamas for a tuxedo to marry Crystal Harris, the one-time "runaway bride" who followed through this time at a New Year's Eve wedding.

Crystal & I married on New Year's Eve in the Mansion with Keith as my Best Man. Love that girl! he tweeted.Credit : @hughhefner

"Happy New Year from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hefner!" the Playboy magazine publisher tweeted early on Tuesday. The message accompanied a photograph of Hefner, 86, wearing what appeared to be purple silk pajamas under a black bathrobe and snuggling his bride, 26, still wearing her pale pink wedding dress. He also wore his trademark captain's hat

Credit : @hughhefner

Hefner, 86, and his former "runaway bride" Crystal Harris, 26, obtained a marriage license in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, Los Angeles County Recorder spokeswoman Elizabeth Knox said.

In what was described at the time only as a "change of heart," Harris dumped the magazine mogul and left his Playboy Mansion five days before a lavish June 2011 wedding before 300 guests.

This time around, the couple are playing it low-key, staying mum on their busy Twitter accounts with Hefner's spokeswoman declining to confirm or deny their plans.

Celebrity website TMZ.com said the couple, who reunited earlier this year, are planning a New Year's Eve wedding.

The 86-year-old Playboy mogul posted a happy snap of himself and buxom blonde cuddling up at the Playboy Mansion's annual Independence Day party a few months back. Sitting outside playing backgammon at a picnic table, the pair was beaming. Credit : @hughhefner

When the blonde beauty confirmed their reunion, she wrote on Twitter: "Yes, Hugh Hefner and I are back together. Yes I am his # (number) 1 girl again. Yes we are happy. Hope that clears up any confusion."

 
Hefner briefly swapped his iconic silk pajamas for a tuxedo to marry Crystal Harris, the one-time "runaway bride" who followed through this time at a New Year's Eve wedding.

Hefner, founder of the Playboy adult entertainment empire, has been married twice before. He and his second wife Kimberley Conrad, also a former Playmate, divorced in 2010 after a lengthy separation. His first marriage to Mildred Williams ended in divorce in 1959. He has two children from each marriage.