$100M Indian nups bash
Good golly Hill-Bolly
Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin joined a slew of bigname guests at a $100 million, weeklong wedding joining two billionaire Indian families — one of which has given big bucks to the Clinton Foundation.
The former Democratic presidential candidate and her longtime top aide danced up a storm as Beyoncé belted out hits at an extravagant preparty the weekend before the union of Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal.
Ambani, daughter of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, who is valued at $43 billion, according to Forbes, tied the knot Wednesday night in Mumbai with Piramal, son of industrialist Ajay Piramal — worth $4.3 billion.
At a prewedding bash, Beyoncé performed such hits as “Crazy in Love,” while Clinton — whose husband’s Clinton Foundation has been on the receiving end of sizable donations from Ambani’s clan, according to Fox News — got her groove on alongside fellow former White House hopeful John Kerry, Abedin and some of Bollywood’s most famous faces.
Beyoncé’s show-stopping performance, held at a 16th century palace in Udaipur, included a full backing band and multiple costume changes, with a least one Indian-inspired outfit.
The wedding week was so jam-packed with festivities that it had its own app to help guests get around, Fox reported.
Guests including Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra and musician hubby Nick Jonas — who had their own uber-opulent Indian wedding earlier this month — descended on the fete in private planes and luxury sedans.
The lavish nuptials, which brought 600 guests to the Ambani clan’s 27-story Mumbai home, are estimated to cost about $100 million, reported Bloomberg News.
That sum is said to include hundreds of nearby hotel rooms that the Ambanis re-reserved forfor their guests.
The newlyweds’ families can afford it: Mukesh Ambani has holdings in everything from oil andnd gas refining to telecom-munications, while Ajay Piramal made his fortune in ph a pharmaceuti-cals, financial services and real estate The bride, brid a 27year-old Yale grad, sits on thet board of not one but two compa-nnies, while her husband, 33, is the founder of a realty company.
Indian weddings are famously extravagant, with even poor families scrimping and saving for years to afford an all-out send-off for their kids into married life.
“A farmer might commit suicide because he can’t save enough money to get his daughter married,” Indian social activist Archana Dalmia told The Associated Press.