Lakshmi and Rushdie met at the party Miramax head honcho Harvey Weinstein threw in July 1999 at the Statue of Liberty island in New York to launch the Tina Brown-edited Talk magazine. The Mumbai boy and the Chennai lass hit it off and have been an item since.

Despite forecasts that the relationship would not last since Padma is apparently not in the same league as Salman (but then who is?), though they sometimes live in different cities (he in New York, she in Los Angeles), they got married!

Wanna bet this one is going to last longer than all Salman's three earlier shaadis?