{"id":38815,"date":"2013-02-26T05:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/janet-jacksons-secret-nuptials\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:43:58","slug":"janet-jacksons-secret-nuptials","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/janet-jacksons-secret-nuptials\/","title":{"rendered":"I did: Janet Jackson&#039;s secret nuptials"},"content":{"rendered":" Janet Jackson and Wissam Al Mana&#8217;s official wedding portrait. Image: Marco Glaviano\n<p class=\"lead\">Despite rumours of a them planning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/blogs\/celebrity-weddings\/janet-jackson-engaged-to-qatari-billionaire\/\">lavish, multi-million dollar wedding<\/a>, Janet Jackson and her billionaire Qatari businessman boyfriend Wissam Al Mana wed in a small, &#8220;quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony&#8221; late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. Talk about being able to keep a secret!<\/p>\n<p>The couple only this week announced their nuptials. They did so in a statement to Entertainment Tonight, saying&#8221; The rumours regarding an extravagant wedding are simply not true. Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our wedding gifts to one another were contributions to our respective favourite children&#8217;s charities. We would appreciate that our privacy is respected and that we are allowed this time for celebration and joy. With love, Wissam and Janet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Janet, 46, has been dating Wissam, 37, since mid 2010 and, she says, their nine-year age difference means nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother always raised us to believe that age was just a number,&#8221; says Janet, the late Michael Jackson&#8217;s baby sister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us &#8211; my sisters, my brothers &#8211; we&#8217;ll just tell you our ages because it&#8217;s all about where you are mentally and how you feel about yourself. It doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Janet&#8217;s third marriage. The notoriously private singer was married to soul singer James DeBarge (1984) and music video producer Ren\u00e9 Elizonda, Jr. (from 1991 to 2000).<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to them both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6639,"template":"","au_article_tag":[664,364,427,1318],"class_list":["post-38815","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-celebrity-weddings-engagements","au_article_tag-billionaire-wedding","au_article_tag-celebrities","au_article_tag-celebrity-weddings-2","au_article_tag-janet-jackson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}