Distinguished guests.
Pop star Rihanna, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Ivanka Trump are meeting in India on Friday to take part in the lavish festivities organized by Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man, to celebrate his son's upcoming wedding.
Photographs broadcast by Indian media confirmed the arrival of Rihanna, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan as well as Ivanka Trump, eldest daughter of former US President Donald Trump, in Jamnagar, India. State of Gujarat, western India.
Rihanna, who gave birth to her second child last August, is expected to put on a show by performing in public for the first time since last year's Superbowl, according to local media.
India Today mentions a fee of 9 million dollars offered to the American singer to participate in the event.
Rihanna just landed in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India!
She will be performing at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding ceremony đź‘€ pic.twitter.com/8AB1MLN6CY
— Samarth (@iamstake) February 29, 2024
Bosses of large international companies, Bollywood stars, and politicians are also expected to participate in the festivities organized by Mukesh Ambani.
Illusionist David Blaine and Bollywood star Diljit Dosanjh will perform for distinguished guests.
Beyoncé was at her daughter's wedding in 2018
Mukesh Ambani, 66, chairman of oil and telecommunications giant Reliance Industries, is Asia's richest person and the world's ninth-richest, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List, worth more than $116 billion.
He inherited an already thriving industrial business spanning oil, gas and petrochemicals from his father and built it into a conglomerate with lucrative interests in retail, telecommunications and an Indian Premier League cricket team.
Antilia, the home of the Ambani family, is a 27-storey, 173 m high skyscraper whose construction is said to have cost more than a billion dollars, has 600 permanent employees and is a landmark in Bombay.
Once the building was completed in 2010, the tycoon came under criticism from author Arundhati Roy, among others, for such a display of his immense fortune in the face of the multitude of his compatriots living in terrible poverty.
In 2018, Mukesh Ambani already organized India's most expensive wedding for his daughter, which reportedly cost $100 million, with a Beyoncé concert.
On Wednesday evening, the tycoon and his wife Nita opened the celebrations by offering a dinner to the 50,000 residents of Jamnagar, the birthplace of Reliance.