Sad News: Hollywood Sensation Salma Hayek finally drops bomb on how she was dragged to the alter by her family…..see more as she reveals the shocking details…..

Salma Hayek and her husband, French businessman François-Henri Pinault, have been together for nearly two decades.

The pair began dating in 2006 and welcomed their daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, the following year. They tied the knot in Paris in 2009 and nine years later, Pinault surprised the actress with a vow renewal in Bora Bora.

After Hayek and Pinault were married, the actress changed her legal name to Salma Hayek Pinault. However, almost everyone in the entertainment business “refused” to adopt her new moniker.

“My publicists are now saying okay – because they don’t even put it sometimes in the movies and like, ‘Why didn’t you put her full name? Oh, we forgot. Sorry, it’s been printed.’ ” Hayek said on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Over the years, Hayek has opened up about their happy marriage, even calling Pinault the “best husband in the world.” In 2017, she said, “I married the right guy. That is probably the most important thing. We support each other in everything we do. We want the other one to strive. [It] makes you happy when the other one strives.”

During another interview, the Eternals actress explained her and Pinault’s secret to their relationship, saying, “We’ve never said anything nasty to each other. No resentment.”

In May 2023, Hayek celebrated Pinault’s 61st birthday with a sweet shout-out on Instagram.

“Happy birthday mi amor,” she wrote. “You are my sunshine, my warmth, my light, my strength, my joy, my love.”

Here’s everything to know about Salma Hayek’s husband, François-Henri Pinault.

His family owns a luxury fashion empire

When Pinault was a baby, his father, also named François, founded a timber and building materials business called Pinault. In 1999, the company bought a 42 percent stake in the Gucci Group. Eventually, the business rebranded as luxury goods company Kering, which today owns Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and Alexander McQueen along with other well-known luxury brands.

He went to school for business management

Pinault graduated from the HEC business school and joined the Pinault Group in 1987. According to Kering, he held “senior positions in several of the Group’s operating subsidiaries,” even becoming Chairman of Artemis, Kering’s controlling shareholder, in 2003.

He became a CEO at 40

In 2005, Pinault, then 40, took over the role of CEO of Kering from his father. “I knew it was coming, but I never expected it to happen so fast,” he told The New York Times in 2013.