BET founder weds fiancée, Lauren Wooden

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May 12, 2016 12:00 PM

Johnson who is also America’s richest black man proposed to Wooden with a 7.5 carat diamond at the City of Light in Paris, France in December 2015 after dating for five years

BET founder, Bob Johnson weds fiancée, Lauren Wooden

The 70-year-old businessman and the 37-year-old International business-management doctorate student tied the knot on Saturday, May 7 at the luxe Auberge du Soleil resort in California’s Napa Valley.

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The couple had a 100-person guest list which included L.A. Reid, actor Leon Robinson and Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff Mack McLarty, who is also Johnson’s partner in an auto dealership business.

Officiating the wedding was Greg Mathis popularly known as “Judge Mathis” in the court show reality TV and Franco Nuschese of Georgetown’s Cafe Milano was the groom’s best man.

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Johnson who is also America’s richest black man proposed to Wooden with a 7.5 carat diamond at the City of Light in Paris, France in December 2015 after dating for five years.

The couple met in 2010 at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles where Wooden worked as a concierge.

This will be the second marriage for both Johnson and Wooden.

Watch 'Straight Outta Compton' producer and girlfriend, Heather Hayslett perform as Jay Z and Beyonce at their wedding reception:

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