Salma Hayek

After that table-top snake dance in 1997’s From Dusk Till Dawn, plus starring roles in numerous other Hollywood movies, who can argue with French PPR chief exec François-Henri Pinault’s choice of a bride in Salma Hayek? As the head of a luxury brands holding company, Pinault is worth a colossally cool US$16.9 billion (Forbes ranked 39th), but in Hayek he’s got the best thing to come out of Mexico since burritos and midget wrestling. Not that it’s been an easy ride. After giving birth to Pinault’s daughter, Valentina Paloma, in 2007, Salma and her husband-to-be called off the engagement. They later made up and were married twice in 2009 – on Valentine’s Day in Paris and then in April the same year in Venice. Two of Europe’s most romantic cities in as many months. Nice.