Finally a glimpse at Nicole Richie’s wedding dress.

This is just one of the dresses Richie wore on her wedding day. The Fashionista reportedly wore three different dresses during the night of her wedding, all by the designer Marchesa.

The sole picture seems like just a tease, People is said to have dibs on the wedding and other dress pictures that will be out Friday.
Nicole Richie wed Good Charlotte front man Joel Madden at her dad Lionel Richie’s Los Angeles home December 11,2010. Richie’s relationship with Joel Madden began in 2006. They have two children together: Daughter Harlow,2, and son Sparrow,1.The couple was engaged in February 2010.

Finally a glimpse at Nicole Richie’s wedding dress.

This is just one of the dresses Richie wore on her wedding day. The Fashionista reportedly wore three different dresses during the night of her wedding, all by the designer Marchesa.

The sole picture seems like just a tease, People is said to have dibs on the wedding and other dress pictures that will be out Friday.
Nicole Richie wed Good Charlotte front man Joel Madden at her dad Lionel Richie’s Los Angeles home December 11,2010. Richie’s relationship with Joel Madden began in 2006. They have two children together: Daughter Harlow,2, and son Sparrow,1.The couple was engaged in February 2010.

When Nicole Richie and Joel Madden exchanged vows in Beverly Hills on Saturday, they had a very special man of the cloth helping them out: Rev. Run!

"Joel and Nicole have looked up to Rev. Run, so they wanted him to officiate," a guest of the wedding tells UsMagazine.com exclusively. The Run-DMC rapper and reality star, 46 (real name: Joseph Simmons) is also a practicing minister.

PHOTOS: Nicole and Joel's most romantic moments

Explains the guest: "They both appreciate his family values and he is an inspiration for both. They both also respect his faith, too."

The spiritual hip-hop pioneer wasn't the only celeb on hand for the evening nuptials, held at the sprawling home of Richie's singer dad Lionel: Khloe Kardashian and Samantha Ronson were among the approximately 150 guests at the winter-themed affair.

PHOTOS: Surprise celeb BFFs!

Also fete-ing the couple? An elephant, which was spotted entering a white tent with other guests before the ceremony got underway.

Together for four years, Richie, 29, and Madden, 31, have two kids: two-year-old daughter Harlow (a flower girl!) and son Sparrow, 15 months.

PHOTOS: Gorgeous celeb wedding photos

"We're really focused on our family, and...we already feel kind of married, you know?" Madden told Larry King in 2009.

When Nicole Richie and Joel Madden exchanged vows in Beverly Hills on Saturday, they had a very special man of the cloth helping them out: Rev. Run!

"Joel and Nicole have looked up to Rev. Run, so they wanted him to officiate," a guest of the wedding tells UsMagazine.com exclusively. The Run-DMC rapper and reality star, 46 (real name: Joseph Simmons) is also a practicing minister.

PHOTOS: Nicole and Joel's most romantic moments

Explains the guest: "They both appreciate his family values and he is an inspiration for both. They both also respect his faith, too."

The spiritual hip-hop pioneer wasn't the only celeb on hand for the evening nuptials, held at the sprawling home of Richie's singer dad Lionel: Khloe Kardashian and Samantha Ronson were among the approximately 150 guests at the winter-themed affair.

PHOTOS: Surprise celeb BFFs!

Also fete-ing the couple? An elephant, which was spotted entering a white tent with other guests before the ceremony got underway.

Together for four years, Richie, 29, and Madden, 31, have two kids: two-year-old daughter Harlow (a flower girl!) and son Sparrow, 15 months.

PHOTOS: Gorgeous celeb wedding photos

"We're really focused on our family, and...we already feel kind of married, you know?" Madden told Larry King in 2009.

When Nicole Richie and Joel Madden exchanged vows in Beverly Hills on Saturday, they had a very special man of the cloth helping them out: Rev. Run!

"Joel and Nicole have looked up to Rev. Run, so they wanted him to officiate," a guest of the wedding tells UsMagazine.com exclusively. The Run-DMC rapper and reality star, 46 (real name: Joseph Simmons) is also a practicing minister.

PHOTOS: Nicole and Joel's most romantic moments

Explains the guest: "They both appreciate his family values and he is an inspiration for both. They both also respect his faith, too."

The spiritual hip-hop pioneer wasn't the only celeb on hand for the evening nuptials, held at the sprawling home of Richie's singer dad Lionel: Khloe Kardashian and Samantha Ronson were among the approximately 150 guests at the winter-themed affair.

PHOTOS: Surprise celeb BFFs!

Also fete-ing the couple? An elephant, which was spotted entering a white tent with other guests before the ceremony got underway.

Together for four years, Richie, 29, and Madden, 31, have two kids: two-year-old daughter Harlow (a flower girl!) and son Sparrow, 15 months.

PHOTOS: Gorgeous celeb wedding photos

"We're really focused on our family, and...we already feel kind of married, you know?" Madden told Larry King in 2009.

When Nicole Richie and Joel Madden exchanged vows in Beverly Hills on Saturday, they had a very special man of the cloth helping them out: Rev. Run!

"Joel and Nicole have looked up to Rev. Run, so they wanted him to officiate," a guest of the wedding tells UsMagazine.com exclusively. The Run-DMC rapper and reality star, 46 (real name: Joseph Simmons) is also a practicing minister.

PHOTOS: Nicole and Joel's most romantic moments

Explains the guest: "They both appreciate his family values and he is an inspiration for both. They both also respect his faith, too."

The spiritual hip-hop pioneer wasn't the only celeb on hand for the evening nuptials, held at the sprawling home of Richie's singer dad Lionel: Khloe Kardashian and Samantha Ronson were among the approximately 150 guests at the winter-themed affair.

PHOTOS: Surprise celeb BFFs!

Also fete-ing the couple? An elephant, which was spotted entering a white tent with other guests before the ceremony got underway.

Together for four years, Richie, 29, and Madden, 31, have two kids: two-year-old daughter Harlow (a flower girl!) and son Sparrow, 15 months.

PHOTOS: Gorgeous celeb wedding photos

"We're really focused on our family, and...we already feel kind of married, you know?" Madden told Larry King in 2009.

Nicole Richie tied the knot with her longtime love Joel Madden.

Celebs attending the wedding included Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson, Kris Jenner, the groom's twin brother Benji Madden and Samantha Ronson -- but the biggest arrival of all was an elephant!

Nicole, 29, and Joel, 31, who have been together for several years and have two children, wed in Los Angeles at the estate of her father Lionel Richie, which was tented for the nuptials, on Saturday, Dec. 11.

Their children, Harlow, almost 3, and Sparrow, nearly 15 months, were in attendance for the ceremony.

Nicole Richie tied the knot with her longtime love Joel Madden.

Celebs attending the wedding included Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson, Kris Jenner, the groom's twin brother Benji Madden and Samantha Ronson -- but the biggest arrival of all was an elephant!

Nicole, 29, and Joel, 31, who have been together for several years and have two children, wed in Los Angeles at the estate of her father Lionel Richie, which was tented for the nuptials, on Saturday, Dec. 11.

Their children, Harlow, almost 3, and Sparrow, nearly 15 months, were in attendance for the ceremony.

Leona Helmsley was already famous when she uttered the now immortal words: “Only the little people pay taxes.” Still, this ushered the Queen of Mean into the ranks of tax history in ways neither she nor the maid who reported the quip could have contemplated. Mrs. Mean would later achieve additional notoriety in the estate planning department with her $12 million bequest to her beloved dog, a Maltese named Trouble. See Helmsley’s Dog Gets $12 Million in Will.

The hotel baroness’ forays into tax planning were most famously of the sales tax and business versus personal variety. Nevertheless, her little people quote surely sums up what many people feel about the rich: their rules are different. The IRS may have taken a page from Mrs. Helmsley’s book in setting up its new Global High Wealth Industry Group. See ‘Audits From Hell’ Target Rich. Some now call this “The Wealth Squad,” but I like to call it “The Rich Squad.”

The Rich Squad is just getting started, but if you’re rich (more about what that might mean below), start getting your ducks in a row. Otherwise you too could end up with a Maltese named Trouble. Keep good documents and records, since if you ever have to go down this road much of the audit process will be providing copious copies of just about everything.

How Rich is Rich? This may be the question of the ages, right up there with the meaning of life, but no one seems to be saying just how rich you have to be to get targeted by The Rich Squad. Still, there are some figures available. The Rich Squad is part of the IRS’s Large Business and International Division.

That generally means more than $10 million in assets. Assets and income are not the same, of course. A business might have $10 million plus in assets, but only a tiny fraction of that in annual income. That applies to individuals too.

Judging from the other units of business the IRS’s Large Business and International Division monitors, the assumption is clearly that The Rich Squad is not going to be dealing primarily (if at all) with people who simply have a large Form 1040 and nothing more. That’s not their focus. In fact, there’s a reason The Rich Squad germinated in the fertile soil of the IRS’s Large Business and International Division.

They are adept at dealing with the complex business and investment entity structures that wealthy people so often use. For reasons of tax law, liability protection, hedging investment risk, anonymity, and succession planning, most wealthy people don’t put all their eggs in one basket. The Rich Squad audit, therefore, would logically take into account the range of assets and entities across the family group.

Most observers and practitioners suggest that this program is still in its startup phase. Yet of the details that have emerged so far, some are very clear. The written questions and paperwork required are extraordinary. See IRS High-Wealth Industry Group Evaluation of Wealth Squad IDR. The IRS commonly issues Information Document Requests, usually abbreviated to “IDRs” by tax professionals.

If you get an IRS IDR you are not required by law to respond. However, you should always respond. If you don’t, you will usually end up with a subpoena so it’s foolish not to consider them with care. Usually that means having tax professionals help you. In the case of a Rich Squad audit, that conclusion is even more obvious, and you should probably seek the assistance of tax attorneys rather than accountants since attorneys have the added benefit of attorney-client privilege.

Wherever you fit on the wealth scale, you should be aware that the IRS is doing more to troll for compliance glitches with wealthy taxpayers. You should also be aware that when it comes to wealthy people and the IRS, to quote Casablanca, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Leona Helmsley was already famous when she uttered the now immortal words: “Only the little people pay taxes.” Still, this ushered the Queen of Mean into the ranks of tax history in ways neither she nor the maid who reported the quip could have contemplated. Mrs. Mean would later achieve additional notoriety in the estate planning department with her $12 million bequest to her beloved dog, a Maltese named Trouble. See Helmsley’s Dog Gets $12 Million in Will.

The hotel baroness’ forays into tax planning were most famously of the sales tax and business versus personal variety. Nevertheless, her little people quote surely sums up what many people feel about the rich: their rules are different. The IRS may have taken a page from Mrs. Helmsley’s book in setting up its new Global High Wealth Industry Group. See ‘Audits From Hell’ Target Rich. Some now call this “The Wealth Squad,” but I like to call it “The Rich Squad.”

The Rich Squad is just getting started, but if you’re rich (more about what that might mean below), start getting your ducks in a row. Otherwise you too could end up with a Maltese named Trouble. Keep good documents and records, since if you ever have to go down this road much of the audit process will be providing copious copies of just about everything.

How Rich is Rich? This may be the question of the ages, right up there with the meaning of life, but no one seems to be saying just how rich you have to be to get targeted by The Rich Squad. Still, there are some figures available. The Rich Squad is part of the IRS’s Large Business and International Division.

That generally means more than $10 million in assets. Assets and income are not the same, of course. A business might have $10 million plus in assets, but only a tiny fraction of that in annual income. That applies to individuals too.

Judging from the other units of business the IRS’s Large Business and International Division monitors, the assumption is clearly that The Rich Squad is not going to be dealing primarily (if at all) with people who simply have a large Form 1040 and nothing more. That’s not their focus. In fact, there’s a reason The Rich Squad germinated in the fertile soil of the IRS’s Large Business and International Division.

They are adept at dealing with the complex business and investment entity structures that wealthy people so often use. For reasons of tax law, liability protection, hedging investment risk, anonymity, and succession planning, most wealthy people don’t put all their eggs in one basket. The Rich Squad audit, therefore, would logically take into account the range of assets and entities across the family group.

Most observers and practitioners suggest that this program is still in its startup phase. Yet of the details that have emerged so far, some are very clear. The written questions and paperwork required are extraordinary. See IRS High-Wealth Industry Group Evaluation of Wealth Squad IDR. The IRS commonly issues Information Document Requests, usually abbreviated to “IDRs” by tax professionals.

If you get an IRS IDR you are not required by law to respond. However, you should always respond. If you don’t, you will usually end up with a subpoena so it’s foolish not to consider them with care. Usually that means having tax professionals help you. In the case of a Rich Squad audit, that conclusion is even more obvious, and you should probably seek the assistance of tax attorneys rather than accountants since attorneys have the added benefit of attorney-client privilege.

Wherever you fit on the wealth scale, you should be aware that the IRS is doing more to troll for compliance glitches with wealthy taxpayers. You should also be aware that when it comes to wealthy people and the IRS, to quote Casablanca, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”