
Salma Hayek’s knocked up!
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Double the good news for Salma Hayek: The actress is engaged to businessman boyfriend François-Henri Pinault – and she’s pregnant.
“Businessman, François-Henri Pinault, and his fiancée, Salma Hayek, are happy to announce they are expecting the arrival of their first child,” Hayek’s rep confirmed in a statement Friday.
The news, first reported by New York Daily News columnist Ben Widdicombe (via gossip site Perez Hilton), comes just days after a photo of Hayek made the Web rounds prompting speculation that she was expecting.
The pair have kept a relatively low profile since their relationship began – though Hayek, 40, has joined Pinault for occasional public events, including one in April at the festivities surrounding the inauguration of the Pinault Foundation’s Modern Art collection in Venice’s Gritti Palace.
Ahh…this is happy news. Dear, dear Salma Hayek has finally found true love. With a filthy rich bugger no less. Edward Norton? Josh Lucas? Bah…who cares about those pathetic little boys?
Pinault, 44, is the CEO of luxury goods firm PPR, which owns Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as a French department store and national music chain. His father, François, is an avid art collector owning more than 2,500 valuable pieces, including Picassos, Miros and work by contemporary artitsts including Damien Hirst. Familiar on both European and American fashion and art circuits, the family fortune is estimated in excess of $7 billion.
Pinault, who was once linked to Nicole Kidman, was previously married and has two children.
Hayek has most recently had her hands full on Ugly Betty, both as a guest star and as the executive producer of hit ABC show. Hayek previously dated actor Edward Norton for four years until 2003, before linking up with Josh Lucas, with whom she split in 2004.

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Dude’s not bad looking too. He’s channelling a bit of Kevin Spacey there. I’m quite cynical when it comes to Hollywood marriages, but I really hope this one lasts.
A graduate of HEC School of Management, François-Henri Pinault (44) joined the Pinault Group in 1987 where he carried out various duties in the Group’s main subsidiaries. After having started as a salesman at the Evreux branch of Pinault Distribution, a subsidiary specialised in the import and distribution of wood, in 1988, he created this company’s purchasing unit for which he was in charge until September 1989.
Appointed CEO of France Bois Industries, the company comprising the industrial activities of the Pinault Group, he managed the 14 plants of this subsidiary until December 1990, date on which he returned to Pinault Distribution to become Chairman. In 1993, he enlarged his responsibilities by being appointed Chairman of CFAO and a member of the Management Board of Pinault Printemps Redoute. Four years later, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fnac, a position which he held until February 2000. Then he was appointed Deputy CEO of Pinault Printemps Redoute in charge of developing the group’s Internet activities. In 2001, he became co-managing director of Financière Pinault.
In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of the Artémis Group. In 2005, he was first appointed Chairman of the Management Board and then Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of PPR. Moreover, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Bouygues S.A. since December 1998.
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