Famous US-born singer Tina Turner celebrated on Sunday her wedding to longtime partner Erwin Bach in a Buddhist ceremony at her luxurious lakeside villa in Switzerland.
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, British rock icon David Bowie, pop singers Eros Ramazzotti and Sade, as well as fashion designer Giorgio Armani were among the 120 guests who attended the party on Lake Zurich.
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The legendary 73-year-old singer and the 57-year old German record company manager have been a couple for 27 years. Swiss media report that they officially married in a discreet civil ceremony earlier this month in Kuesnacht, which lies on Lake Zurich's posh Goldkueste (Golden Bank).
Turner's estate, the Chateau Algonquin, was decorated with about 70,000 red and yellow roses from Holland.
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The couple had everyone participate in a traditional Buddhist water blessing in which every wedding guests pour water over the couple's hands. Turner has been a committed Buddhist since the 1970s.
The guests were requested to wear white, while the bride herself, who traded in her US passport for a Swiss one earlier this year, will wear a gown designed by Italian fashion giant Giorgio Armani.
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Throngs of reporters and onlookers were kept at a distance from the property, and police established an exclusion zone at the lake to prevent curious boaters from congregating.
The 50- by 100-metre zone was cordoned off "not because Tina Turner wants this (but) to avoid many boats" crowding near the manor in Kuesnacht, on Lake Zurich, said police spokeswoman Esther Surber.
To frustrate sailing paparazzi, wedding organisers have erected a red canvas screen at the foot of the lakeshore garden.
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A German fan who had endured hours in front of the chateau in hopes of catching a glimpse of her idol fainted in the sweltering summer heat and was taken to hospital, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported.
Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock to a sharecropper family in Tennessee, divorced her first husband, Ike Turner, in the late 1970s. That marriage collapsed as Ike Turner's addiction problems and violent nature took their toll on her. Her wedding to Bach took place on the same date as wedding to Turner 51 years earlier. Turner died in 2007.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner has lived in the Alpine nation since the mid-1990s
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