Paris - Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek has married French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault, the online edition of the weekly Le Point reported on Monday.

According to the report, the 42-year old Hayek, who is a naturalized US citizen, and Pinault, 46, were married on Saturday in the city hall of the Sixth Arrondissement in central Paris.

The news, if confirmed, comes as a something as a surprise, because the star of the films Frida and Bandidas and Pinault had announced the end of their engagement in July of last year.

On September 21, 2007, while engaged to Pinault, Hayak gave birth to her first child, Valentina Paloma Pinault, in Los Angeles.

Pinault is CEO of the luxury giant PPR and the son of one of France's richest men, Francois Pinault, whose fortune has been estimated at 16.9 billion dollars by the 2008 Forbes List of Billionaires. He also owns the publication Le Point, which broke the story. (dpa)