The 72 year old Robert Redford married his 51 year old German Girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars in Hamburg, Germany last weekend, a German church rep said Wednesday.
Renate Massfeller, of the St. Catherine Church in Hamburg, said that Pastor Frank Engelbrecht presided over the ceremony Saturday between the U.S. actor and his long-time girlfriend at the luxury Louis C. Jacob Hotel.
The two had been dating since 1996 and were engaged around March 2008. They nearly married secretly as they had only informed around 30 of their family members and very close friends, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper. The Associated Press also reports that Robert and Sibylle are also planning a second wedding in Mexico.
Szaggars, born in Hamburg, is an abstract artist whose work has been exhibited in Britain, Germany, the United States and other countries. In the 1990s she moved to Sundance, Utah - where Redford’s Sundance Institute is based.
This is Robert Redford's second marriage. He was married to his first wife, Lola Redford, for almost 30 years. They have now three kids together.
