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Hefner says Playmate called off wedding

CHICAGO

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says his fianc e has called off their wedding.

The 85-year-old Hefner says in a Tuesday message on Chicago-based Playboy’s official Twitter feed that 24-year-old Crystal Harris has “had a change of heart.”

Hefner announced in December that he and the former Playmate were getting married, tweeting that he’d given Harris an engagement ring. He has said that the wedding was scheduled for this Saturday at the Playboy Mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The marriage would have been Hefner’s third. He divorced Playmate Kimberly Conrad in 2009.

Springsteen: Clemons’ stroke is ‘serious’

new york

Bruce Springsteen says band mate Clarence Clemons’ stroke was serious, and he’s going to need a lot of help to get back to his former self.

The Boss commented Tuesday on his longtime friend and E Street Band member on his website, Twitter and Facebook.

It’s the first time he’s spoken since it was revealed Sunday that Clemons had suffered a stroke.

Springsteen calls the saxophonist a “beloved comrade” and described the stroke as “serious.”

Clemons’ family thanked fans on Springsteen’s site and urged fans to email their well wishes to notestoclarence@clarenceclemons.com.

Associated Press