| It's hard to imagine a better day of the year to get | | | | daughter, Valentina Paloma, was born the following |
| married than Valentine's Day -- and a better city in | | | | September. (Pinault also has two children from a |
| which to have the wedding ceremony than Paris. | | | | previous marriage.) However, the couple broke off the |
| Mexican actor Salma Hayek decided she wanted to | | | | engagement last July. |
| have it all: she married her French billionaire beau, | | | | According to friends of the couple, Pinault and Hayek |
| Francois-Henri Pinault, on February 14 in the City Hall of | | | | put the spark back into their romance through two trips |
| Paris' Sixth Arrondissement. | | | | to Paris, in September and November. One source told |
| Jean-Pierre Lecoq, mayor of the Sixth | | | | People that the pair were "very evidently in love with |
| Arrondissement, announced the marriage afterward to | | | | each other, very affectionate in public" when they |
| L'Agence France-Presse. Hayek's spokesperson, Cari | | | | went to the Dubai Film Festival in December. |
| Ross, later confirmed the event to the Associated | | | | Francois-Henri Pinault, who turns 47 in May, is the CEO |
| Press. An anonymous official told AP that the wedding | | | | of PPR, a luxury and retail group that owns such |
| had been a small civil ceremony. | | | | designer labels as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. |
| Hayek, 42, and Pinault first met in Italy in 2006. They | | | | According to People, Pinault has previously been linked |
| announced plans to marry in March 2007, and their | | | | to Nicole Kidman. |