Salma Hayek is currently making headlines due to her partner’s wealth rather than her own. The actress and producer of Mexican and American descent made a fortune when she said yes to the marriage proposal of billionaire Pinault years ago.

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Is Salma Hayek Mexican Arab?

Salma Hayek Jiménez was born in the Mexican city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.  Her father is of Lebanese descent, Sami Hayek Dominguez.

His ancestors are from the Lebanese city of Baabdat, which Salma and her dad visited half a decade ago to promote her film Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.

Is Salma Hayek mixed?

However, her mum Diana Jiménez Medina on the flip side is an opera singer and talent scout of Spanish descent.

Sami Hayek Dominguez owns an industrial-equipment company and works for an oil company in Mexico. He once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos.

Is Salma Hayek of Mexican descent?

During a visit to Madrid over a half a decade ago, Hayek described herself as 50-50 Lebanese and 50-50 Spanish, stating that her grandmother and her maternal great-grandparents were from Spain.

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