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His daughter’s wedding causes a sensation
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Bill Gates couldn’t be prouder: his daughter Jennifer married the show jumper Nayal Nassar on Saturday, October 16. A festival of superlatives was planned. But that doesn’t go down well with everyone.
As reported in the US media, the wedding is to take place on the 124 hectare and 16 million US dollar (13.7 million euros) farm in North Salem (small town in Westchester County, around 5136 inhabitants, as of 2018), the Bill, 65, and Melinda Gates, 57, bought for daughter Jennifer after graduating from Stanford University.
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Extensive work has been going on on the property for months, reports the New York Post, among others. Lorries in rows are in constant use and many employees have been working around the clock for days on building large pavilions with glass windows in the garden of the house. Allegedly, the cost of the wedding is over $ 2 million. Even former Late Show presenter David Letterman, 74, who owns a house nearby, said neighbors said he couldn’t resist stopping by the horse farm to get an idea of the hustle and bustle.
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“This extravagance is completely exaggerated”
As local residents report, the work is said to have started shortly after the engagement of Jennifer Gates, 25, and Nayal Nassar, 30, in January 2020. “It will be the biggest party our city has ever seen,” a neighbor told the New York Post. However, not everyone likes that. “This extravagance is completely exaggerated, the many trucks disturb the neighbors”, complains one: e Affected: r in an interview with “DailyMail”. Another sought a conversation with those responsible: “I told them that we have all lived here forever and that we have always respected the privacy of the gates since they moved in here, but I don’t think anyone respects ours.”
Jennifer and Nayal are said to have gotten wind of this a few days ago, however: As an excuse they sent their neighbors fine wines and restaurant vouchers and said on the enclosed card: “Please bear with us, we know that we have a common neighborhood and northern Love Salem. “
Nayal Nassar is an Egyptian multimillionaire. Before he became a show jumper, he studied economics at Stanford University. Jennifer Gates is the oldest daughter of “Microsoft” founder Bill Gates, 65, she also studied at Stanford. After her first degree in human biology, she is currently studying medicine in New Yok.
Sources used: nypost.com, dailymail.co.uk