Forbes is reporting via Vienna news that Austrian retail tycoon Wlaschek will wed for the fifth time at the ripe old age of 94. His bride-to-be, girlfriend Friederike 'Ricki' Schenk, won't reveal her age, but is likely a good three decades behind her groom. That means Wlaschek, a self-made mogul, has defied stereotypes by proposing to a woman who's closer to his age than the average Hef-two-twin sisters ratio.
Still, the billionaire with the prolific marriage history is a plot-line we've seen over and over again. Revlon honcho Ron Perelman wed number five two years ago, shortly after the ink dried on his brutal divorce from actress Ellen Barkin. Larry Ellison and T. Boone Pickens are up to number four and the night is still young.
Five-timer Wlaschek earned his $4.7 billion dollar bank account by founding Billa, a European supermarket chain. He's since become one of the biggest real estate magnates in Austria. He announced his engagement at one of his own properties, a sprawling five star hotel in his native country, where he once played as a struggling young jazz pianist, back when the musical genre was in its infancy.
The groom met his future bride at a Vienna event a few years back, and soon realized somewhat touchingly or morbidly depending on your vantage point, that they'd both lost their last spouses on the very same day.
The couple's wedding is set to take place in a few days, according to Forbes (although some German gossip pages are saying the big day already happened this past Saturday).
The self-made Wlaschek already has four kids but still wants "another five or six children, at the very least." His bride laughed that comment off, saying "I am not so young any more."
*WoW! Can you say "You Go Boy!*
That's something else!
However, we all know, that chick is marrying fat pockets Karl for his money and not his "you know what." It's sort of sad in a sense that she's going to use him up and then either divorce his ass or just wait for him to die.
Many people (women in general) may see marriage as a bit normal because they can rationalize why she's marrying him. To men it's a bit different because she's seen as hoe, slut, gold-digger and many other things. (As we all know some men see women as a object that's useful for one thing). Karl may or may not be that way.
However you look at it, they are getting married and whoever may have something to say should shut keep their traps shut because it is what it is.*
Congrat's to the lovely couple!
Diva's Nation
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