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Renault F1 boss Briatore weds Italian top model

Flamboyant Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore married top model Elisabetta Gregoraci in lavish style here Saturday serenaded by British pop group Duran Duran.F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone himself witnessed the union along with Benetton group chairman Luciano Benetton and right-wing politician Daniela Santanche, while the more than 300 guests also included Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spain’s former prime minister Jose Maria Aznar.

French Cardinal Paul Poupard celebrated what the Italian press has dubbed the “wedding of the year,” uniting the 58-year-old playboy and Gregoraci, 28, in the 12th-century Santo Spirito in Sassia near the Vatican.

“I’m as excited as if a Grand Prix race was starting,” Briatore was quoted as saying, with press reports noting that his bride had coaxed him towards faith, along with a health scare in 2006, when kidney cancer was averted through an early diagnosis.

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