Salma Hayek Ties The Knot With French Billionaire
Posted by Media Outrage on February 16, 2009
Salma Hayek has married her baby’s daddy, French Billionaire Francois Henri Pinault.
Via People:
Salma Hayek has married French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault, Monday’s online edition of the weekly French newsmagazine Le Point reports.
Hayek, 42, and Pinault, 46, were married on Saturday – St. Valentine’s Day – in the City Hall of the Sixth Arrondissement in central Paris, according to the publication, which is owned by the Pinault family.
Sixth Arrondissement Mayor Jean-Pierre Lecoq subsequently confirmed the report to the French news agency Agence France-Presse.
There had been recent reports that the couple – whose daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, was born in Los Angeles in September 2007 – had reunited after they had called off their marital engagement in July 2008.
The two had originally announced their engagement in March 2007.
Romance Rekindled
Friends of the couple tell PEOPLE that a Paris trip in September (when Hayek attended the Balenciaga fashion show) and another in November helped rekindle the pair’s relationship. Adds a source, they were “very evidently in love with each other, very affectionate in public” together at the Dubai Film Festival in December.
Only last week, Hayek, who’s been appearing on NBC’s 30 Rock, told TV host Rachael Ray that when she kisses Alec Baldwin on the show, “I keep telling Francois, ‘I imagine I was kissing you.’ “
Pinault is CEO of the luxury giant PPR and the son of one of France’s richest men, Francois Pinault, whose fortune last year was estimated to be $16.9 billion by Forbes magazine.
Besides his daughter with Hayek, Pinaut also has two children from a previous marriage.
Mediaoutrage- Congrats to the happy couple and Salma for striking gold in this economic downturn!
Yvonne said
Way to go Salma. Wish the best to both of them.
Lio said
KA CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING $$$$$$$. She gets HALF no matter what…
claudette4heisman said
Why I thought the title said Marries Freck Billionaire? lol…anyway…good for them…
Dickwell Thrust said
In that photo I know she wants to give the thumbs up and say…
“I’M EVEN MORE RICH BITCH”
MissTX85 said
Lol @ DT. Congrats to her for raking in all that dough!
ucanb2 said
Congratulations Salma!!!! That’s how you do it Boo!
beach chick said
I know that’s right…don’t just your secure the future with a baby but make him put a ring on it. lol lol…yeah yeah I know that was dead wrong…using babies as pawns but shoot we in a recession! Get in where you fit in!