{"id":94187,"date":"2025-05-03T05:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/crystal-hefner-james-ward-engaged\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T05:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:13:39","slug":"crystal-hefner-james-ward-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/crystal-hefner-james-ward-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Hefner, James Ward Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Crystal Hefner<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has officially left the Playboy mansion behind.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old\u2014who was married to Hugh<\/strong> Hefner<\/strong> from 2012 until his death in 2017\u2014got engaged to her boyfriend of one year James Ward<\/strong>, 41, on April 25 at her Hawaii home, the couple confirmed to Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the marine biologist\u2019s proposal was completely unexpected for Crystal, who met James through mutual friends in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt truly feels like a full-circle moment. James completely surprised me,” she told Us<\/em> <\/em>Weekly<\/em> in an interview published May 2.<\/a> “He had a hidden staircase and a winding trail cleared to reveal a handcrafted deck perched above a dramatic cliffside overlooking the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cIt was the exact spot where we\u2019d had a quiet picnic together a year ago\u2014a place that became \u2018ours.\u2019 I had no idea he was secretly turning it into something permanent and symbolic. I thought we were just going for a walk, but when I saw the flowers, the handwritten notes, and the sea stretching endlessly in front of us, I knew something extraordinary was about to happen.”<\/p>\n

The couple noted they plan to \u201cenjoy being engaged for awhile,\u201d but are looking to tie the knot in 2026. And according to Crystal, they want to have an intimate ceremony that is \u201cfull of love, meaning and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crystal Hefner\u00a0has officially left the Playboy mansion behind. The 39-year-old\u2014who was married to Hugh Hefner from 2012 until his death in 2017\u2014got engaged to her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}