Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among the CEOs and celebs set to attend a 3-day pre-wedding party being thrown by an Indian tycoon worth $113 billion

Other guests expected to attend the lavish celebrations include Sundar Pichai, Bob Iger, and Ivanka Trump, reports say.

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Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among the CEOs and celebs set to attend a 3-day pre-wedding party being thrown by an Indian tycoon worth $113 billion

Anant Ambani wearing a black jacket and Radhika Merchant wearing a light blue sari — Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, the son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani.
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A son of the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is due to get married in July.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among those set to attend the pre-wedding celebrations in March.
The three-day celebrations are set to take place in India.

Some of the world's top business leaders are expected to attend the pre-wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani in India.

Ambani is a son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of the Fortune 500 company Reliance Industries and who has an estimated net worth of $113 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

While Ambani is due to get married to Radhika Merchant in July, the celebrations will kick off in March, and tech heavyweights such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are among the 1,200 guests set to attend the festivities, the Guardian reported.

The star-studded list of invitees also includes Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Samsung Electronics executive chairman Jay Y. Lee, The Times of India reported.

Rihanna and illusionist David Blaine are also set to perform at the event, Reuters reported.

Here's a look at some of the other business chiefs and celebrities rumored to be attending the celebrations.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates

Mukesh Ambani's wife joined forces with Gates last year when Nita Ambani's Reliance Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled an initiative to support one million women entrepreneurs.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg

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Facebook invested nearly $6 billion for a minority stake in Jio Platforms, whose parent company is Ambani's Reliance Industries, in 2020, Forbes reported.

Zuckerberg held a virtual discussion with Ambani in 2020 as part of a Facebook Fuel For India event, where the pair discussed how technology could boost economic progress.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai — Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images

Pichai has crossed paths with Ambani before, as the pair both attended the White House's State Dinner for India's prime minister Narendra Modi last June, video footage from the event shared by The Tribune showed.

Samsung Electronics executive chairman Jay Y. Lee