Playboy model, 24, marries 81 year old billionaire

Cathy Schmitz married Richard Lugner at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna
Cathy Schmitz married Richard Lugner at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna
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An 81-year-old Austrian billionaire has got married for the fifth and – he hopes – last time to a Playboy model aged 24.

Richard Lugner wed Cathy Schmitz at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, which was once the seat of the Hapsburg empire.

“Apart from the big age difference, everything fits,” Mr Lugner told The Local before his wedding. “Hopefully, this time, it’s the right thing.”

Mrs Schmitz, who worked at the Playboy club in Cologne and appeared on the cover of German Playboy in 2013, posted the message “In love, engaged, married” on her Facebook page.

Mr Lugner, who made his fortune in the construction industry, is known in Vienna for his shopping centre, called Lugner City.

He is also famous for the partners