Tycoon agrees to pay $2.5m for Big Sur wedding breach

Facebook billionaire Sean Parker’s lavish $10m (€7.6m) Big Sur wedding has become even more expensive.

The California Coastal Commission and Parker said they have reached a $2.5m settlement to pay for coastal conservation programmes after the Napster co-founder built a large movie set-like wedding site in an ecologically sensitive area of Big Sur without proper permits.

The parties reached a deal after officials were tipped that Parker built a cottage, fake ruins, waterfalls, staircases, and a huge dancefloor near iconic redwoods and a stream with threatened steelhead trout.