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Legendary rock singer Tina Turner has married her longtime German beau, Erwin Bach, in a Swiss civil ceremony, a mayor said Thursday. The 73-year old singer tied the knot at the registry office of her wealthy Zurich-area community with Bach, a 57-year-old music executive, said Markus Ernst, the mayor of Kuesnacht, where Turner owns a lakeside chateau. Ernst said the couple, whose relationship began in the 1980s, had a typical civil ceremony several weeks ago at the registry office, sometime between late June and early July. Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag reported that pop stars David Bowie and Sade and talk-show impresario Oprah Winfrey were among the more than 120 guests invited for the private ceremony Sunday at the chateau and would be taking up weekend residence at some of Zurich’s finest luxury hotels. A small concert stage was being set up in the garden, the Sunday newspaper said, and Turner and Bach wrote neighbors to apologize in advance for any noisy disturbances.

A British law firm admitted Thursday that one of its partners inadvertently leaked that J.K . Rowling had written a mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. The Sunday Times newspaper revealed over the weekend that the Harry Potter author had penned the book under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The newspaper said it had received a tip-off on Twitter, and there was speculation that Rowling or her publisher were behind the revelation - which has sent sales of the book skyrocketing. But law firm Russells said Thursday that one of its partners, Chris Gossage, had let the information slip to his wife’s best friend, Judith Callegari - the woman behind the tweet. Her Twitter account has now been deleted. Russells said in a statement that “we apologize unreservedly” to Rowling. It said that while Gossage was culpable, “the disclosure was made in confidence to someone he trusted implicitly.” Russells, a specialist in entertainment law, said it had informed Rowling and her agent once it learned what had happened. “We can confirm that this leak was not part of any marketing plan and that neither J.K. Rowling, her agent nor publishers were in any way involved,” the statement said. Rowling said that “only a tiny number of people knew my pseudonym and it has not been pleasant to wonder for days how a woman whom I had never heard of prior to Sunday night could have found out something that many of my oldest friends did not know. … To say that I am disappointed is an understatement.”