LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning country music singer LeAnn Rimes tied the knot Friday night with the man who broke up her first marriage.
Rimes, 28, wed “CSI: Miami” star Eddie Cibrian, 37, in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles in front of about 40 guests including the groom’s sons Mason, 7, and Jake 4, from his previous marriage.
“LeAnn and Eddie were happily married today surrounded by their closest family and friends,” the bride’s spokesman told People magazine.
Rimes and Cibrian led their guests to believe they had arrived for an engagement party — but instead the couple surprised them with a wedding.
The news comes after Rimes spoke out about their relationship, which broke up their first marriages, on new biodoc “Backstory: LeAnn Rimes,” to air Sunday on US cable channel Great American Country.
At the time they met Rimes was married to Dean Sheremet and Cibrian was in an eight-year marriage with Brandi Glanville, the mother of his two sons.
“I didn’t have the tools to know how to do it the right way, how to let go the right way. I’d never been taught that,” Rimes — who has been branded a “home wrecker” by some — said of ending her seven-year marriage.
Rimes and Cibrian got engaged in December when he presented her with a five-karat diamond ring from jeweler Brent Polacheck, who also crafted their wedding bands.