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Warren Buffett weds

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Warren Buffett and his companion Astrid Menks.

OMAHA (Nebraska): Billionaire investor Warren Buffett married his longtime companion Astrid Menks in a private ceremony on Wednesday, the Omaha World-Herald reported in a copyrighted story in its Thursday editions. Mr. Buffett's daughter, Susan, hosted the wedding at her Omaha home. She said her father and Ms. Menks (70) were married by Douglas County District Judge Patricia Lamberty in a 15-minute ceremony on Mr. Buffett's 76th birthday. ``It's her only and his last [wedding],'' Ms. Susan Buffett said, recalling her father's take on the ceremony. Mr. Buffett's first wife, Susan, died July 29, 2004, at age 72. She moved to San Francisco in 1977, but the two remained married and were together often and talked frequently when apart. — AP

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