Mariah Carey 'weds in private ceremony'
Superstar diva Mariah Carey is reported to have tied the knot in a private ceremony with a young actor.
According to several published reports, Carey, 38, married Nick Cannon, 27, on Wednesday. Neither Carey’s publicist nor Cannon’s manager would comment on the reports.
If the pair did indeed wed, it would be a whirlwind romance. Word that the two were seeing each other first surfaced in the last few weeks. Last Saturday, Carey was seen sporting a huge diamond ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her movie, “Tennessee,” in which she plays a waitress.
Cannon was at her side at the party. Speculation swirled that the couple was engaged.
Latina.com was first to report that the two got married, at Carey’s home in the Bahamas. Today’s New York Post also reported the pair had wed and E! Online quoted a relative of Cannon’s as saying that he called his family and confirmed the news.
“He called us and told us all about it. We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him,” Linda Cannon, identified simply as a family member, was quoted as saying.
People magazine’s website reported that Carey had obtained a marriage licence in the island of Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, where she has an estate.
Cannon has put out a rap album, but is best known for his role in the movie “Drumline” and a Nickelodeon TV series. He is featured in Carey’s upcoming video for “Bye Bye.”
While Carey and Cannon were playing coy, the famed jeweller Jacob & Co. was quick to publicise its own role in the reputed union with a press release touting the ring Cannon reportedly gave her.
The release described it as “crafted from platinum and features a square emerald cut fancy light pink diamond as the centre stone surrounded by 58 intense pink diamonds and two half moon diamonds on each side.
“The total carat weight of the ring – centre stone is 10 carats – is a jaw-dropping 17 carats with a value of 2.5 million dollars (£1.2 million).”
Cannon does have experience with engagement rings. The actor, who has previously romanced singer Christina Milian and reality star Kim Kardashian, last year gave a 15-carat stone to Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks as he proposed in grand fashion – on the Jumbotron in New York’s Times Square. Cameras were flashing as she said yes. They split just a few months later.
This would be Cannon’s first marriage but Carey’s second. She wed top music executive Tommy Mottola in an extravagant wedding in 1993. They had a bitter divorce in 1998.
