Padma Lakshmi Husband: Meet Salma Rushdie

In 2004, after living together for five years, Lakshmi married novelist Salman Rushdie. Rushdie stated that Lakshmi had asked for a divorce in January 2007, and later that year, in July, the couple filed it.

Salma is Indian-born British American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent.

In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed a Commandeur de I’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the events following the Satanic Verses. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in April 2023.

On February 22, 2010, Lakshmi gave birth to her daughter with businessman, Adam Dell.