This was a wedding Vienna will remember for years — however much it might want to forget it. The theme was pure Disney, with four white-plumed Lipizzan horses pulling a carriage containing the loving couple, who were separated by a mere 57 years. As guests gathered last weekend in the 1,441-room Schonbrunn Palace for the lavish reception, the bride and groom released two symbolic white doves into the air. The 24-year-old bride, former Playboy Bunny Cathy Schmitz, wore an explosion of purple and white chiffon over a jewelled strapless bustier, topped off with a white fur jacket. Scroll down for video
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Austrian billionaire Richard Lugner, 81, bribes celebrities to be his date
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Together they attend the glittering annual Vienna Opera Ball
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Lugner pays a five or six figure sum to his guest, and flies her on private jet
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Faye Dunaway, Farrah Fawcett and Raquel Welch among those who said yes
Above, the billionaire with actress @placeholder, who was his date to the event in 1999
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