Wolfgang Van Halen weds Andraia Allsop in intimate ceremony: 'Ed would've been absolutely beaming'

Wolfgang Van Halen has tied the knot with fiancée Andraia Allsop.

The couple wed in an intimate ceremony at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday after eight years together, as first reported on People.com.

"Our goal was just to bring all of our closest family and friends together," Andraia told the outlet. "The past few years, not only with the world, but also with personal tragedies, haven't been the easiest, but we wanted to create this wedding as a celebration not only just for us to get married, but a celebration for the people we love."

The pair exchanged "I do's" in their living room in front of 90 guests with a reception that followed outside in their backyard. 

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The 32-year-old son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli opted for a custom three-piece all black suit for his special day, while the bride wore an Eva Lendel dress with sheer long sleeves and lace detailing, per the outlet. Wolfgang walked down the aisle with his mom by his side as a song that his father wrote for him played in the background. 

"The song that my father had written for me, it's an instrumental piece called ‘316.’ It'll be a nice way to include my dad," he told People. The Van Halen guitarist died at the age of 65 from throat cancer in 2020.

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Another way the couple honored Eddie was by "having an empty chair that would've been his at the ceremony," Andraia said. "One of the things that I really wanted was a way to bring Wolf's dad into it," she added.

In addition, she hand-made "little memory charms with a picture of Wolfie and his dad on it" so that everyone was able to "think of him throughout the day." Bertinelli lent Andraia a necklace to wear that Eddie had gifted the Food Network star as well.

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"Ed would’ve been absolutely beaming and so, so proud of the man Wolfie has become and is becoming and so happy that he has found Andraia, someone who really understands Wolfie, who he is and who he wants to be and supports him wholeheartedly," Bertinelli gushed to People.

She added, "It brings me such a nice sense of peace knowing Wolfie and Andraia have each other for the rest of their lives. They really ‘get’ one another. Their humor is very similar, they like similar things, they know how to give each other space and they’re just so comfortable together."

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The couple's reception included a menu with "hints of Italian" featuring a tiramisu dessert and a wedding cake that consisted of "buttercream vanilla frosting with a vanilla cake inside." As for music, the pair hired a deejay, with Wolfgang opting not to perform.

""I think people's first impression is like, 'Oh, are you going to play something?' And it's like, no, that's the last thing I want to do. I'm going on tour in 11 days. I don't want to," he shared. "Last thing I want to think about is playing anything."

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Although the wedding was eight years in the making, Wolfgang told the outlet that he and Andraia felt like they were already married. 

"It's kind of just a formality," he shared with the outlet. "We are so already married that it's like, well, yeah, might as well make it official, because we already are. It's just going to be really fun to throw a party with everybody in our lives that we love and is able to make it. And it will be cool. Most people ever that we've ever had at the house."

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In July 2022, the musician took to social media to share that he and Andraia were engaged. "She said yes!!" he wrote alongside an image of the couple.

Bertinelli was thrilled about her son’s engagement as she wrote on Twitter, "So happy!!!" with several crying emojis.

Exonerated murder suspects sue over corrupt 'killer cop's' role in prosecution

Two men whose convictions in a 1994 New Orleans murder were tossed decades later — in part because a notoriously corrupt killer cop was involved in the investigation — sued the city, the district attorney's office and several former police officers Monday.

Kunta Gable and Sidney Hill (also known as Leroy Sidney Nelson), say in their federal lawsuit they were framed by former police officer Len Davis, who now faces a federal death sentence, and Davis' accomplice, former officer Sammie Williams. Gable and Hill seek an unspecified amount in damages in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.

Both men were locked up for nearly three decades before current District Attorney Jason Williams joined defense lawyers in 2022 to seek their release. Key to that decision was the involvement of Davis. Davis was convicted on federal charges in the 1990s for, while serving as a police officer, having masterminded a drug protection ring involving several other officers and arranging the murder of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him.

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Gable, Hill and Bernell Juluke were teenagers in 1994 when they were arrested in the shooting death of Rondell Santinac near the Desire housing development.

A motion to vacate their conviction was granted by a state judge in 2022. Among the problems the attorneys cited in the case was prosecutors' failure to disclose evidence undermining the case against the men. Also, the jury didn't know that Davis and Sammie Williams — the first officers on the scene — were known to cover up the identity of perpetrators and manipulate evidence at murder scenes at the housing development to cover up for drug dealers they protected.

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"Although the vacatur of Plaintiffs’ convictions is a long-overdue step towards justice, it does not begin to remedy the enormous harm caused by Defendants’ misconduct," the lawsuit says.

In addition to the city, the lawsuit names the district attorney's office, Davis and Sammie Williams, several former detectives and police supervisors as defendants. In addition to spelling out wrongs against Gable and Hill, the lawsuit outlines scandals that plagued the department in the early 1990s, as well as abuses outlined in a 2011 U.S. Department of Justice report. That report was released following an investigation into police policies and practices that was sparked by the deaths of unarmed civilians following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It led to a broad reform plan, outlined in a court-approved document known as a "consent decree," that the city is still operating under.

None of the defendants had responded to the lawsuit in court as of midday Monday. Contact information for Sammie Williams, who pleaded guilty in criminal cases and testified against Davis, wasn't available. The city declined comment on the pending litigation. Jason Williams' office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.

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