Ambani wedding guests received lavish gifts worth over $3 million

Several famous guests at the extravagant Mumbai wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant earlier this month received “over $3 million in freebies,” a source told US Weekly on Thursday.

A-listers like Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra, and John Cena attended the multi-day event, with some being “sent private planes and gifted jewelry and gifts versus traditional cash payments,” the source revealed.

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Although they“didn’t get to keep all of their jewelry” they wore to the opulent ceremony, the stars — who also received solid gold invitations — were reportedly “allowed to keep some of it.”

Another insider mentioned that Chopra has been friends with the Ambani family “for years” and that “she covered her own attendance costs.”

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Other notable attendees included performers such as Luis Fonsi and Rema, while Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Andrea Bocelli, the Backstreet Boys, David Guetta, Katy Perry, and Pitbull performed at pre-wedding celebrations.

“The performers were all paid 50 percent over their market value,” the first source told Us Weekly, explaining that this would be their traditional performance cost.

Rihanna, who reportedly received over $6 million for her March performance, “would have been paid over $10 million” for this wedding, according to the source.

Bieber, meanwhile, earned a reported $10 million for his pre-wedding performance.

The Guardian estimated the lavish wedding's potential cost to be upwards of $600 million.

If accurate, this staggering amount would represent only half a percent of the Ambani family’s wealth.

The 29-year-old groom’s father is billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, and his mother is philanthropist Nita Ambani.

Before the wedding, Mukesh gifted the couple an $80 million, 10-bedroom villa with a private beach on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai.

The bride, also 29, is the daughter of pharmaceutical magnates Viren Merchant and Shaila Merchant.