94-year-old billionaire marrying for 5th time

Source:Forbes via Vienna News Published: 2012-4-18 17:48:00

Austrian retail tycoon Karl Wlaschek will wed for the fifth time at the age of 94.

His bride-to-be, girlfriend Friederike "Ricki" Schenk, won't reveal her age, but is likely three decades younger.

Wlaschek, a self-made mogul, is not alone with his marriage history.

Revlon honcho Ron Perelman wed for the fifth time two years ago, shortly after his ugly divorce from actress Ellen Barkin. Larry Ellison and T. Boone Pickens are up to No. 4, and they have some years ahead of them.

Wlaschek earned his $4.7 billion bank account by founding Billa, a European supermarket chain.

He has 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 at one time before all the bank notes, he struggled as a young jazz pianist.

The groom met his future bride at a Vienna event a few years back, and soon realized they had both lost their previous spouses on the same day.

The couple's wedding is set to take place in a few days, according to Forbes, but some German gossip pages are saying the big day already happened this past Saturday.

The billionaire already has four kids but still wants "another five or six children, at the very least."

His bride laughed the comment off, saying, "I am not so young any more."



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