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Former Facebook president gets hitched in California

Billionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married on Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.

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FP Archives|Jun 02, 2013, 10:15:13 IST

Los Angeles: Billionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married on Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.Parker, 33, married his fiancee Alexandra Lenas in a ceremony at an inn in the costal retreat of Big Sur with 300 family and friends in attendance, his representative Matthew Hiltzik said in a statement.Their daughter, Winter, who was born this year, was part of the ceremony.[caption id="attachment_834147" align="alignleft" width="380"]Sean Parker. Reuters. Sean Parker. Reuters.[/caption]Parker's fortune is estimated at $2 billion at Forbes.com.In 2004, Parker joined Facebook where he became its first president. He left the company in 2005 and is now a managing partner at venture capital firm Founders Fund.Actor Justin Timberlake played Parker as a hard-partying ladies man in a 2010 movie, "The Social Network," about the creation of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, who was then a student at Harvard University. After the film came out, Parker dismissed the portrayal as fictional.Aside from his time at Facebook, Parker is known for co-founding Napster in 1999 when he was 19 years-old.Napster flummoxed music executives by allowing free peer-to-peer sharing of songs online. It was shut down by court order in 2001 over copyright infringement claims.Parker is still involved in the online music industry, and was a backer of music subscription service Spotify.Reuters

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First Published:Jun 02, 2013, 10:15:11 IST
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