On Saturday, September 26, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York witnessed the wedding of Alina Haba, the former lawyer of US President Donald Trump, and the Turkish businessman Turhan Meldun. The event was attended by officials from the Trump administration and prominent figures from the worlds of sports and business.
Sources who spoke to The Correspondent website estimated the cost of the ceremony at about 10 million dollars, while media coverage indicated the use of about 900,000 flowers, brought from inside and outside the United States, to decorate the hall located on the fourth floor of the hotel, with no official invoices proving the final cost or the exact number of flowers being published.
Details of the ceremony included providing individual boxes of caviar to the guests at the beginning of dinner, the participation of a large musical band, in addition to the bride wearing three dresses, and the American rapper Nelly performing at a later concert for the guests.
The list of attendees, according to American coverage, included FBI Director Kash Patel, US Attorney General Todd Blanche, and former boxing champion Mike Tyson, in addition to foreign officials and business figures who were in New York on the occasion of the United Nations meetings.
It is noteworthy that Alina Haba gained her fame after representing Trump in legal cases before his return to the presidency. She later worked as an advisor in the White House and the position of acting federal prosecutor in the state of New Jersey, and this is her third marriage. As for the groom, Turhan Mildun, he is the CEO of the Turkish “Miller Holding” group operating in the fields of construction and investment.
In this context, the age of the groom sparked a discrepancy in press coverage. He was repeatedly mentioned as being 29 years old, while The Correspondent website reported, based on British Companies Authority records documenting his date of birth in December 2000, that he was 25 years old on the day of the wedding.
