Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan Shares Joyful Wedding News
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Billy Corgan is married!
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman revealed that he and his longtime partner, Chloe Mendel, officially tied the knot this past weekend.
While chatting with local WGN reporters, Corgan casually shared that he and Mendel married on Saturday, Sept. 16, or about a year after the couple first announced they were engaged and over a decade since the two were first confirmed to be dating back in 2012 (about two years after he and Jessica Simpson called it quits).
"The day finished with a wedding proposal," Mendel wrote in the caption of an Instagram post shared on her 30th birthday. "Of course I said yes ❤️."
The sound of wedding bells came on the heels of the band's 30th anniversary of their hit album Siamese Dream, which was initially released on July 27, 1993.
According to the outlet, the band commemorated with a special acoustic performance and pop-up shop at the space Corgan, 56, and his now-wife co-own: Madame Zuzu’s, a tea shop, vegan restaurant and entertainment venue located not too far from Chicago, in Highland Park, Illinois.
The 30th-anniversary celebrations reportedly included two concerts that recreated the Smashing Pumpkins' 1993 release party at Tower Records and a shopping experience that featured new band merchandise and vinyl records.
Over the course of their 11 years together, Corgan and Mendel welcomed more than just a business partnership but two children. The couple share a 7-year-old son, Augustus, and daughter, Philomena, who will turn 5 in October.
The couple's recent exchange of nuptials is believed to be a first for Mendel but a second for Corgan, who was previously married to Chris Fabian from 1993 to 1997.
Congrats to the newlyweds!
