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    Meet the Ambanis: Everything you need to know about Asia’s most talked-about party

    by Namita Singh Mar 05, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: AFP via Getty Images

    Celebrating news of an engagement might normally involve a small gathering with a few friends and family opening a bottle of champagne – not a three-day extravaganza featuring a private show by Rihanna, an after-party performance by Akon and the groom’s mother wearing a £47m emerald necklace.

    But the Ambanis are no ordinary family, and this was no ordinary pre-wedding party. The celebration offers a glimpse into the dizzying wealth of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, who put on the event to announce his youngest son Anant Ambani’s engagement to longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant, who is herself from another wealthy industrialist clan. The wedding itself, which isn’t for several months, promises

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