24-year-old Playboy Model Marries 81-year-old Construction Tycoon Richard Lugner
Apart from age, they seem to be a perfect fit for each other, as is obvious to everyone. The Playboy cover girl, a 24-year-old bunny and model, weds a man who is only 57 years older. That is not too bad, when you consider that Richard Lugner has 81 years behind him, but billions in his bank.
Cathy "Spatzi" Schmitz, or nude model 'Crazy Cathy', is now the wife of Richard Lugner, a property and construction billionaire. Where did they get wed? Vienna's Schönbrunn palace. The event featured "too much purple", according to a daily. Four beautiful horses pulled the newly weds' white carriage to their reception at the Liechtenstein Palace .
And why not? Lugner's reasoning is quite reasonable. "Apart from the big age difference everything fits," Lugner told The Local before the wedding. He conceded that he never argued when he was solitary, but doesn't a man require a companion?
This is his fifth wedding. Since February, Lugner was in an alliance with Schmitz, who has a small daughter called Isabelle, "Hopefully, this time it's the right thing", Lugner said. To some, it might sound unconvincing, if not unconvinced.
As for Cathy, she had a more profound observation to make: "We did not intend to fall in love," she said earlier this year in an interview with German news agency DPA. "It just happened. Love knows no age."
Cathy looked like a fairytale princess in her wedding, with a German gown and a richly jeweled strapless bustier. She wore a long chiffon skirt that swept the floor with its purple hemline. A snow white veil snuggled on her blonde hair. She looked like Snow White in a Disney movie, drawn in her carriage by four Lipizzan horses.
They were followed by court ushers who wore traditional costumes. Fizzy bottles of champagne sparkled in crystal bottles. Both of them released two white pigeons into the air.
Alexander, Lugner's eldest son, played his best man. Schmitz's sister Beate was maid of honour. The wedding dress was designed by Atil Kutoglu.
Watch how they met: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okNNpvB4q5M
The Lugner family is famous in Viennese high society due to the construction industry. But Richard becamed more famous when he began to invite celebrities to accompany him to the annual Vienna Opera Ball, such as Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. Last July, Kardashian had walked out when a white-skinned man sported a black face and played a prank to deceive her that he was her fiancé, Kanye West.
Her departure was "annoying" to Lugner, who had already given her $500,000 to grace the function. She always asked that she should be filmed, rather than keep him company, he added.
However, her departure seems to have opened the way for his new relationship with Cathy, so Lugner doesn't have too much to complain.