Tareq Salahi
| Tareq Salahi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tareq Dirgham Salahi |
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis |
| Occupation | vintner; former public official; Travel/Tourism Expert; television personality |
| Spouse(s) |
Michaele Salahi (divorced) Lisa Spoden (2016–present) |
| Website | www |
Tareq Dirgham Salahi is an American vintner, winery owner, travel/tourism expert and television personality. In 2002, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society named him National Man of the Year, due to him raising $120,000 for the charity. In 2006 he captained the United States Polo Team against Charles, Prince of Wales. Salahi has appeared in two reality-television shows: Where the Elite Meet. and The Real Housewives of D.C..
In November 2009 he achieved brief notoriety by allegedly infiltrating a White House state dinner to which he had not been invited.
Salahi's father, Dirgham Salahi, immigrated to the United States in the 1940s from Jerusalem, in what was then British-administered Mandatory Palestine. His mother, Corinne, is from Belgium. Dirgham was educated as a petroleum geologist and worked in the Middle East and U.S. He retired and settled in Virginia, where he became owner of an estate farm, which he subsequently turned into one of the first Virginia Farm Wineries. Corinne Salahi is the founder and director of the Montessori School of Alexandria, Virginia.
Salahi attended primary school at Ascension Academy in Alexandria and high school at the Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia where he graduated in 1987. He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in oenology and business management.
Salahi met Michaele Holt at a 2000 baby shower thrown in McLean, Virginia by real estate developer N. Casey Margenau and his wife Molly. They married in 2003 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. The reception was held at the Salahi family winery and was prepared by 46 chefs, hosted in a 36,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) tent, and culminated with a thirty-minute fireworks display and an eight-foot wedding cake. The guest list included 1,836 guests, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Margaret Heckler and numerous high-profile US State Department, CIA, US Senate, US Congressional and other high-profile diplomatic guests, including at the wedding US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy to quip that he needed to issue "subpoenas" to the bride and groom.
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