1,200 people attended, including Zuckerberg and Ivanka
Chairman Lee Jae-yong attended his daughter’s wedding six years ago.
Mukesh Ambani, the 67-year-old chairman of India’s Reliance Group, the world’s 9th richest man, who is marrying his second son this July, held a grand pre-wedding party in his hometown of Gujarat from the 1st to the 3rd (local time). At this event, 1,200 world famous people, including Mehta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Indian-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and former White House senior advisor Ivanka, daughter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, attended the event. About 20 people attended.
Pop star Rihanna appeared on the celebration stage on the 1st and passionately sang 19 songs, including her representative song ‘Umbrella’. This is the first time in eight years that she has sung publicly, having stopped performing since 2016 due to her clothing business and childbirth. Local media reported that Rihanna’s appearance fee was estimated to be up to $9 million (about 12 billion won).
Chairman Ambani, who dominates India’s major infrastructure industries such as energy and oil, has two sons and one daughter. The second son, Anant (29), who is getting married this time, is the last of his three children to get married. The opponent is Radhika Merchant (30), the heiress of Encore Healthcare, a famous Indian pharmaceutical company. Prior to the pre-dinner party, the merchant served a sumptuous meal to 51,000 Gujarat residents on the 28th of last month, following the Ambani family tradition.
In 2018, pop star Beyonce performed at the wedding party of Chairman Ambani’s only daughter Isha. Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also attended at the time.
In India, where the gap between rich and poor is wide, is there any aversion to the successive luxurious parties of the richest people? The New York Times (NYT) in the U.S. said, “The average annual salary of an Indian worker is $2,750 (approximately 3.67 million won), but even such people have lavish weddings,” and reported that the mainstream response is that it is a uniquely Indian culture.
Source: Donga
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