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On June 1, 2013, Parker married Alexandra Lenas in Big Sur, California, in a wedding at which every guest was given a The Lord of the Rings–style costume. The wedding purportedly cost $10 million to stage, [ 112 ] although Parker describes this estimate as "WAY off base".
When Big Sur residents notified the California Coastal Commission of the event three weeks beforehand, they investigated but allowed the wedding to proceed. Many residents were outraged by both Parker's actions and the official response. [55] The Commission's staff report described the violation: [56]
In 2018, a high-profile case was resolved without litigation: at tech billionaire Sean Parker's 2013 wedding in Big Sur, where extensive staging was installed in an ecologically sensitive area without a proper permit, Parker cooperated with the Commission and created a mobile app named YourCoast to help visitors discover 1500 access points to ...
The wedding location was the best of both worlds—ideally situated between the trees and the mountains high above the Pacific Ocean—and the aesthetic was whimsical, a bit abstract, and laced ...
Madonna flipping off paparazzi on her wedding day to Sean Penn. Michael Jackson’s sequined glove wanly waving as the pop star was wheeled to a burn unit. Whenever a big breaking news story ...
Parker invested in Facebook a few years after Napster’s collapse, and as its first president, he helped secure Mark Zuckerberg's total control of the company, eventually making Parker a billionaire.
Approximate boundaries of the Big Sur region. Big Sur is not an incorporated town but a region without formal boundaries in California's Central Coast region. [17] The region is often confused with the small community of buildings and services 26 miles (42 km) south of Carmel in the Big Sur River valley, sometimes referred to by locals as Big Sur Village, but officially known as Big Sur. [17 ...
Billionaire Sean Parker's donation aims to speed development of more effective cancer treatments by fostering collaboration among leading researchers.