Third time lucky?: Mariah Carey to marry billionaire casino tycoon James Packer

Diva Mariah Carey is to marry her Australian billionaire boyfriend James Packer. The pair are set to wed after reports Packer, 47, proposed to the Grammy winner with a 35-carat ring on Thursday night in her hometown of New York. No date has been announced but the couple are said to be elated at the prospect of “spending the rest of their lives together”. It will be the third marriage for each.

The family is overjoyed that they have found each other. Mariah has made James a very happy man, she is a very special person and the family wholeheartedly approves.

Packer family source

The casino tycoon and American pop megastar, 45, went public with their romance last June, with Carey later revealing they instantly hit it off after their first meeting in Aspen. Father-of-three Packer, son of media mogul Kerry Packer, secretly rounded up the singer’s close friends for a private dinner at Eleven Madison Park to propose, it was reported. Carey, who has four-year-old twins from her marriage to Nick Cannon, has also shared a number of pictures of the loved-up pair on social media during their whirlwind romance.

Spectacular, handsome … I don’t even have words for the man who introduced me tonight. We’ll just say the amazing Mr James Packer

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