Celebrities turn out for Salma Hayek wedding party

Salma Hayek, the Hollywood actress, and her husband are celebrating their recent wedding with a star-studded, weekend-long party in Venice.

• Bono, the U2 singer, and actresses Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron were among the glitterati spotted at the La Fenice opera hall, as Hayek and French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault repeated the vows they made in February.
• Former French president Jacques Chirac, a Pinault family friend, was also among the guests, after arriving at the party by boat.
• Also there were actress Ashley Judd, film director Emir Kusturica, fashion designer Stella McCartney and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
• Actor Woody Harrelson and his wife Laura Louie had earlier enjoyed a twilight hand-in-hand stroll around Piazza San Marco, while other guests including Hayek’s ex-boyfriend Ed Norton and actor Olivier Martinez were seen sightseeing.
• On Friday, guests donned masks for a private party, and on Saturday they headed to Venice’s famed La Fenice opera house to renew their marriage vows.
• Venice is where Mexican-born Hayek, 42, met Pinault, 46, who is chief executive of PPR, the luxury goods and retailing group controlled by his father Francois Pinault which includes the Gucci Group.
• The couple, who had a daughter, Valentina Paloma, in 2007 in Los Angeles, married discretely in Paris on Saint Valentine’s Day.
• Mexican star Hayek, 42, has appeared in films Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and Frida, for which she earned a best actress Oscar nomination in 2003. She is also executive producer of hit television show Ugly Betty.
• Earlier this year she made headlines when a US news report featured footage of her breastfeeding a stranger’s sick baby during a humanitarian trip to Sierra Leone.