Architect Niemeyer marries at 98

A month before his 99th birthday, world-renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer announced that he had married his 60-year-old secretary Vera Lucia Gabreira.

“Vera and I got married yesterday, November 16 at 10.30pm, in my residence, in a simple ceremony witnessed by the civil authorities who performed the wedding and a small group of friends,” Niemeyer said in a short statement on Friday.