Wainwright to marry partner this week

Rufus Wainwright is to wed his long-term partner Jorn Weisbrodt on Thursday.

The 39-year-old singer and the German-born theatre producer - who got engaged in November 2010 - are to tie the knot at the home of his singer/songwriter father Loudon Wainwright III and late mother Kate McGarrigle in Montauk, New York, after same-sex marriage was made legal in the state in July 2011.