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Actress Salma Hayek, billionaire Pinault end wedding plans

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AFP
Published
Jul 18, 2008

NEW YORK, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Oscar-nominated Mexican actress Salma Hayek and her French billionaire businessman fiance François-Henri Pinault have called off their engagement, a spokeswoman said Friday, July 18th.


Salma Hayek

We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled. There will be no further comment," her representative in New York, Cari Ross, said.

The couple announced plans to wed back in March 2007.

They met in Italy in 2006, and have a daughter, Valentina, who was born in September 2007.

Hayek was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for her portayal of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in "Frida." Pinault heads the luxury group PPR.

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