| Last
night, from centerstage at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater, home of the
show "Mama Mia," Karen Heilig accepted Ivan Ciment's proposal of marriage.
Playing on the show's signature song "Dancing Queen," Ciment asked Heilig
to be his "Real Life Queen." Heilig, thinking she was being taken out to
celebrate her birthday, was utterly floored.
Heilig, of Sydney Australia, is chief counsel and
assistant executive vice president of the Conference on Material Claims
against Germany, an NGO. Ciment, 37, of Miami Beach, is CFO and legal counsel
for Morningside Evaluations and Consulting, a legal consulting company
specializing in immigration matters.
Heilig and Ciment currently live 2 blocks apart
on Manhattan's Upper West Side and met last summer via JDate, an internet
dating service. Ciment's parents have withdrawn the $25,000 bounty they
had offered to anyone finding a suitable match. "The Americans can't locate
Osama for $25 million and to think I found Karen for $19.95 on JDate --
wow!", said Ciment.
The wedding will take place in Miami Beach on a
Sunday in early November. Further details will follow soon.
Ivan and Karen in Bermuda, March 2003
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