Paula Pratt: Sydney society wedding for billionaire daughter

Preparations are being made for Paula Pratt, the daughter of late cardboard mogul Richard Pratt, to walk down the aisle.

THE stage is set for a billionaire wedding in Sydney.

Paula Pratt, the daughter of late cardboard mogul Richard Pratt and horse trainer Shari-Lea Hitchcock, celebrated her bridal shower with a small group of 26 friends and family at China Doll restaurant in Woolloomooloo on Sunday.

Paula Pratt, daughter of Shari-Lea Hitchcock and the late billionaire Richard Pratt, is getting married.

Pratt, 24, and fiance analyst Nassib Thoumi are set to tie the knot in a private ceremony in Sydney next month.

The 26 guests at the bridal shower included girlfriend Dakota Phillips Glyde, for whom Pratt herself was a bridesmaid last year.

Phillip Glyde is believed to be in Pratt’s bridal party, as is Tiffany Bowen-Hughes, the daughter of Dotti retail co-founder Linda Bowen.

Paula Pratt with fiance Nasssib Thoumi. Instagram

NSW Minister for Framilies and Communities Natasha Maclaren-Jones was also in attendance.

Born in 1997, Pratt, the product of the Melbourne billionaire’s 18-year-long relationship with Hitchcock, reportedly won a settlement from her late father’s estate worth millions.

The cardboard king died in 2009. That year, Pratt was ranked the fourth richest person in Australia with a worth of $5.48 billion.

Paula Pratt at her bridal shower with “mother of the bride” Shari-Lea Hitchcock.

Paula Pratt, daughter of Shari-Lea Hitchcock and the late billionaire Richard Pratt.

He had three adult children to wife Jeanne Pratt — Anthony Pratt, Heloise Waislitz and Fiona Geminder.

Paula meanwhile grew up in Sydney’s east and studied finance at Sydney University. She and Nasssib are understood to have met while studying.