Salman Rushdie with Padma Lakshmi

Author SALMAN RUSHDIE (left) and his wife, TV host and model PADMA LAKSHMI, attend the Serpentine Gallery Summer Party on July 2, 2003. The event was hosted by French Connection in the Kensington Gardens Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London England. Rushdie and Lakshmi were married from 2004 until their divorce in 2007.