Hefner to Take a Bride, Miss January

Playboy empire founder Hugh Hefner, whose magazine has described him as living by the motto “Marriage is the death of hope,” has proposed to the most recent of his companions at the Playboy mansion.

The object of Hefner’s affections is Kimberley Conrad, 24, the magazine’s Miss January 1988 who moved into the mansion that month along with her two dogs and a cat. A Hefner spokesman said no wedding date has been set. Hefner, 62, has married only once and has been divorced more than 30 years.