Actor Robert Redford marries artist in secret ceremony in Germany with just 30 guests
Actor Robert Redford married German artist and long-term partner Sibylle Szaggars in a ceremony in Hamburg at the weekend, it has emerged.
A German church confirmed its pastor presided over the wedding between Redford, 71, and the 51-year-old abstract artist he has been dating since 1996.
Renate Massfeller, of the St. Catherine Church in Hamburg, said Pastor Frank Engelbrecht conducted the ceremony on Saturday at the luxury Louis C. Jacob Hotel.
Happy couple: Robert Redford and new bride Sibylle Szaggars seen here last year at a fundraiser in New York. The couple married in Hamburg on the weekend
The Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper said 30 friends and family members attended the service.
Szaggars is an abstract artist whose work has been exhibited in Britain, Germany, the United States and elsewhere.
She and Redford became engaged last March, and he announced he would marry for the second time.
At the time, the Oscar-winning actor told German magazine Bunte: 'We are engaged and very happy with that. She (Sibylle) is my fiancée and that says everything, doesn’t it?'
Redford and Siybille in London in 2007: The couple have shared Redford's stunning ranch home in Utah, Sundance since the late 1990s
The couple live have lived together at his 5,500-acre eco-friendly ranch in Utah, on the mountain resort he owns - where Redford's famous Sundance Institute is based - since the 1990s.
He named his ski resort after his famous character the Sundance Kid from film.
Notoriously private Redford was divorced from first wife Lola Van Wagenen in 1985.
The couple have a son Jamie, 46, and two daughters, Shauna, 48, and Amy, 38. They also lost another son, Scott, to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Redford was one of the biggest actors of the 1960s and 1970s perhaps best known for his role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which he co-starred with Paul Newman.
Before dating Miss Szaggars, he was linked to the actress Sonia Braga and the costume designer Kathy O’Rear.
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