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When Salma Hayek first married husband François-Henri Pinault on Valentine’s Day, it was a secret, low-key civil ceremony in Paris with just a few family members in attendance.

But when the newlyweds are made up of a big Hollywood actress and one of France’s richest men, it was only a matter of time before they marked their nuptials with a more lavish spectacle.

A-list stars from the world of movies, music and fashion descended on Venice over the weekend for two days of celebrations.

The couple kicked off the festivities on Friday in true Venetian tradition with a masquerade-style rehearsal dinner at the 17th century Punta Della Dogana, the canal city’s old custom house.

The following day they exchanged vows in a romantic ceremony in front of 150 family members and friends at the 18th century La Fenice opera house.

The bride, 42, looked stunning in a Balenciaga wedding gown by Nicholas Ghesquiere with her hair swept back into a bun with a long veil.

The Dusk Till Dawn actress carried a bouquet of orchids and stephanotis with crystals and was attended by the couple’s 19-month-old daughter Valentina, who was a flower girl, and her stepdaughter Mathilde, eight, from François-Henri’s first marriage.

His 10-year-old son François was a page boy.

Stars including Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Bono, Stella McCartney and former French president Jacques Chirac then followed the couple to the Palazzo Grassi for the reception, which went on into the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Palazzo Grassi, a historic white marble palace owned by the Pinault family, was the location of the couple’s first meeting.

The couple first fell for each other in May 2006, when they were introduced by Pinault’s stepmother, and announced their engagement and Salma’s pregnancy in March 2007.

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Is Prince pining for newlywed Salma Hayek?

He sings about actress’s curves and how beautiful she is in a new tune called “Valentina” — also the name of Hayek’s 18-month-old daughter.

“Hey Valentina, tell your mama she should give me a call/ When she get tired of runnin’ after you down the hall/And she’s all worn out from those late-night feedings/and she’s ready for another rock and roll meeting,” the lyrics go.

And if Hayek’s not interested, Prince says her bff Penelope Cruz — currently dating Javier Bardem — will do.

“If Penelope wants to Cruz there ain’t no way that we ain’t gon’ dance,” Prince sings.

Prince met Hayek — who wed French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault in February — after she directed the music video for Te Amo Corazon off his 2006 album, 3121.

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Salma Hayek picked a most romantic time and place to get married: Valentine’s Day in Paris. The Mexican-born actress wed French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in a civil ceremony Saturday at the City Hall in Paris’ chic 6th arrondissement, according to an official there.

The wedding was a small affair, said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, in accordance with policy.

Hayek’s spokeswoman, Cari Ross, confirmed in an e-mail Monday that the marriage had taken place in Paris Saturday. No further details were provided.

The nuptials followed a rocky romance. The two met in Italy in 2006, announced their engagement and had a baby, Valentina Paloma, in September 2007. Last year they broke off their engagement but made up a few months later.

Hayek, 42, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for the film “Frida,” the biography of the painter Frida Kahlo, which she produced and starred in. She is one of the executive producers of the hit series “Ugly Betty” and is also the chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Pinault, 46, is chief executive of the French luxury and retail group PPR SA, which owns high-end labels such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Puma.

Africa has a strong effect on female celebrities. Madonna adopted a youngster after a visit to Malawi, while Angelina Jolie insisted on giving birth to a child in Namibia.

But Hollywood was agog this morning after From Dusk Till Dawn actress Salma Hayek breastfed a stranger’s baby during visit to war-torn Sierra Leone.

The 42-year-old, who has a one-year-old daughter Valentina, was touring a hospital when she came across a mother who was unable to feed her baby boy.

Although TV cameras were there from ABC’s Nightline news programme, the actress did not hesitate.

Hayek said: ‘The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother did not have any milk. He was very hungry – I was weaning my daughter Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk, so I breast-fed the baby.’

She added: ‘It was amazing because he’s really looking at me and he’s very little. My baby is one year so she can suck a lot harder.’

Hayek later admitted she worried about betraying her daughter, but she added: ‘I thought about it, am I being disloyal to my child by giving my milk away?

‘I actually think my baby would be very proud to be able to share her milk and when she grows up I will make sure she continues to share and be generous caring person.’

She went on to recall how her great-grandmother had helped out a woman in a similar fashion.

She explained: ‘My great-grandmother was in a Mexican village and they found a woman in the street inconsolably crying and the baby was also crying, crying, crying.

‘My great-grandmother went up to her and said “What is the matter?” and the mother said, “She is very, very hungry and I have no more milk”.

‘And in the street my great-grandmother took the baby and breastfed that baby who instantly stopped crying and went peacefully to sleep.

‘It was amazing (to breastfeed another child) because I was really impressed by (my great-grandmother’s) story. I’m here in Sierra Leone and I was able to feed a baby that was very hungry.’
In developing countries, doctors encourage women to breastfeed for up to two years, because the food available cannot match the nutrition from a mother’s milk.

Since becoming a UNICEF spokesperson last year, Salma has travelled to many developing countries to raise awareness of the Pampers Tetanus programme.

Sierra Leone has the highest infant and child death rate in the world, with one in five children dying before they reach their fifth birthday.

Twenty one per cent of infant deaths in Sierra Leone are down to Tetanus, which can be prevented by a simple, routine injection which all children have in the western world.

30 Rock is back this week to start the New Year off right with a brand new episode guest starring Salma Hayek.

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Tina Fey was so desperate to get Salma Hayek to guest star on “30 Rock,” Fey called her personally to ask her to come on the Emmy-winning show, sources say. Hayek is now set to star in two episodes, “as a character – not as herself,” one spy said. A rep for Hayek, who also appeared on “Ugly Betty” two seasons ago, declined comment. Hayek joins a long list of guest stars on “30 Rock,” including Edie Falco, Jerry Seinfeld and, in an upcoming episode, Oprah Winfrey.

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Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years.

Hayek, a paid spokeswoman for Pampers’ tetanus vaccine program, recounted her experiences during a recent trip to the West African nation of Sierra Leone, where she met with tetanus victims.

“One of the things that was very moving about the trip was to see 15-year-old girls, really young, taking responsibility for their lives and their children before they’re born by saying ‘I am going to be healthy, I am going to take this vaccination,’” she told journalists at the United Nations on Thursday.

“I had no idea how much this was going to really personally move me,” added the 42-year-old star of films including “Desperado” and “Frida.”

The Pampers-UNICEF partnership has already provided over 50 million vaccines to mothers and babies in developing countries, where tetanus kills up to 140,000 infants and 30,000 women each year, according to the U.N. agency.

Pampers, owned by Procter & Gamble Co., said it would give UNICEF the money for one tetanus vaccine for every pack of specially marked diapers it sells before the end of the year. It expects that to produce 70 million more vaccinations.

Hayek’s daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault was born in September 2007.

Are Salma Hayek and former fiancé Francois-Henri Pinault back together – or just friendly exes?

The couple announced the end of their 16-month engagement in July, but the two stuck close together – and were all smiles – as they attended a birthday party on Saturday.

“She stayed by his side almost the whole time,” a party guest told PEOPLE of Hayek, 42, who also brought along Valentina Paloma, her 11-month-old daughter with Pinault, to the celebration for Stevie Wonder’s 7-year-old son Kailand Morris. “It was so cute – Francois-Henri was carrying the baby, smiling, and playing with her. He obviously adores Valentina.”

Pinault was spotted relaxing on a yacht with a woman in Italy late last month, but the French billionaire, 46, looked comfortable and happy to be back by Hayek’s side as the two noshed on sushi and fruit salad in the sunshine.

The party had a tennis and Olympics theme and was thrown at a country club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., by Kailand’s mom and Stevie Wonder’s wife, Kai Milla Morris, who even sprang for a very special birthday surprise: The Jonas Brothers made a brief appearance to serenade him with “Happy Birthday.”

All three Beckham boys – Brooklyn, 9, Romeo, 6 and Cruz, 3 – enjoyed the party sans their famous parents, with Brooklyn spending hours on the tennis court hitting balls while Cruz put on another break-dancing show during a kids’ dance-off.

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