Richard Gere is planning to wed his Spanish girlfriend Alejandra Silva next month, it has been claimed.The Pretty Woman star, 68, has been dating the 35-year-old for three years.Spanish newspaper ABC, which was the first to reveal the couple's relationship, claims they will wed in the city of Washington in the U.S.on May 5.It will be a third wedding for Hollywood icon Gere, who was wed to supermodel Cindy Crawford from 1991 to 1995 and model Carey Lowell from 2002 until 2016.It will be a second wedding for Alejandra, who was in the midst of her divorce from Govind Friedland, the son of American mining magnate Robert Friedland, when she met Gere.She has one son with her ex.Rumors of an engagement were first sparked in December when Silva was seen with a large diamond on her ring finger.'I am recently divorced.As far as a legal wedding, no, but maybe we'll have a celebration,' Silva said when asked about marriage on a red carpet in June last year.'You know, the perfect couple is made of two people who can be what the other needs.I'm living the type of life you see in the movies, truly.' Both Gere and his girlfriend have found a common ground being human rights activists.However, his love for politics and activism has put a significant damper on his career over the years.His outspoken ways have not always been well received by Hollywood, especially in relation to his efforts against China's occupation of Tibet.'There are definitely movies that I can't be in because the Chinese will say, 'Not with him,'' he previously said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.'I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese.' But Richard isn't the least bit worried about appeasing the Chinese market.'I'm still making the same films that I was making when I started,' he said.'Small, interesting, character driven and narrative driven stories.It hasn't impacted my life at all.