{"id":35016,"date":"2014-09-15T07:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T21:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/playboy-model-24-weds-81-year-old-billionaire\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:25:14","slug":"playboy-model-24-weds-81-year-old-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/playboy-model-24-weds-81-year-old-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"81-year-old billionaire weds Playboy model"},"content":{"rendered":" <strong><em>24-year-old Playboy model Cathy Schmitz marries 81-year-old billionaire Richard Lugner. Image: Facebook<\/em><\/strong>\n<p>Austrian construction billionaire Richard Lugner, 81, has wed former\u00a0Playboy model Cathy Schmitz who is 57 years his junior.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who met in February, married at Vienna&#8217;s Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace on Saturday.<\/p>\n <em><strong>Billionaire Richard Lugner and his new wife, Cathy Schmitz. Image: APA<\/strong><\/em>\n<p>Hopefully, this time it&#8217;s the right thing,&#8221; the groom told The Local shortly before the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>It is his fifth trip up the aisle and the bride&#8217;s first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the big age difference everything fits&#8221; he added. \u201cOf course I argued less when I was alone, but a man needs a partner.\u201d<\/p>\n <em><strong>Image: EPA<\/strong><\/em>\n<p>Acting as best man, was the groom&#8217;s eldest son, Alexander, while the bride&#8217;s sister, Beate, was Maid of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>The bride wore a custom-made Atil Kutoglu gown encrusted in diamontes and boasting a purple skirt.<\/p>\n<p>The groom is known for inviting celebrities such as Farrah Fawcett, Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton to Vienna&#8217;s famed Opera Ball. His latest guest, Kim Kardashian, was paid $500, 000 to accompany him to this year&#8217;s ball in February.<\/p>\n<p>It was at this ball Kim famously stormed off after a guest approached her painted in blackface.<\/p>\n The glowing bride. Image: Facebook\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11338,"template":"","au_article_tag":[664,408,549,550,665],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/35016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=35016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}