Geraldine Larrosabetter known in the artistic world as Innocence, intended to spend the holidays in peace and tranquility with her daughter but, once again, her name appears in another controversy involving the family of the deceased. Carlos Marinher ex-husband and member of Il Divo. Now it is because of the statements of a fan who in the program And now Sonsoles He singled her out and accused her of not behaving well with the singer’s mother and sister by refusing to liquidate the Marín company in which she has ten percent.
Q: At this point, are you still having confrontations with Carlos Marín’s family?
R: I don’t understand the family’s goal against me again. It’s all very absurd and strange. I don’t even know where to start after the shock I’ve experienced these three years. I have been Carlos’ life partner for almost thirty years: nineteen as a couple, then as married, and although we separated we have always loved each other. He had to live his moment but he was always my producer even though we both had other partners. In my case it didn’t work because I always loved Carlos. We were both free but during the pandemic we took refuge in my country house. He was happy and it is not true that he only went on weekends as his family insists on saying and I have witnesses. In the pandemic we decided that we were going to grow old together. We wanted to get married again, set up a studio in my house, release an album that now his family won’t let me show… I always have to justify myself because they (mother and sister) want to erase me from Carlos’s life. I don’t understand the reason but they must solve their problems because this cannot be. They are against me and against Il Divo. Nothing is normal anymore.
Q: Did you solve the inheritance issue?
R: What they never say is that there was a will. At that time we had a lot of debt due to the pandemic and Carlos decided to put me in an ERTE so that I could collect. I had complete confidence and signed everything he told me. Carlos was my family, the man of my life and we had no problems. Why does it bother you so much? He made the will four years before the pandemic in case he suffered an accident and wanted to protect us. He leaves me as a legacy the apartment where I have been living for 27 years. We started with a rental and then he bought it when he made money with Il Divo. When we got divorced, he said I should stay there and he would continue paying the mortgage while I took care of the supplies. It is a small but very familiar apartment in Puerta de Toledo. We have always been close to his family and they were aware of everything. When they decided to fire me from the company without compensation, I told them that I understood the situation and that is why my lawyer proposed that I file a FOGASA so that I could collect from the State. They felt very bad about it and then they refused to let me release the duets album. That’s how they are with everything. First they tried to challenge the will, now they tried to prevent me from releasing the album… I told them that I am not going to sign. What we have fixed is the floor, especially because they couldn’t prevent it. Carlos had five insurance policies and his mother inherited them. The thing is that Carlos thought that his family was going to protect me. And look. With the insurance they could pay for what remains of the house but they didn’t want to.
Q: Will you be able to pay for what is left of the apartment?
R: My rings are not falling off when I confess that I was ruined in the pandemic. Both. The debts arrived and the solution was going to be the tour with Il Divo if it had not been that Carlos died of covid in a London hospital. They have taken the insurance money and have been able to save their apartments, since Carlos left three. Mine, another for his sister and another’s part of his paternal inheritance, which his mother has.
Q: Is it true that you can’t use the stage name Innocence?
R: They have done and said very ugly things about me. They have even removed my Instagram account twice since Carlos’s sister had the passwords because she was his secretary. They wouldn’t let me use my stage name until I was able to get it back. All the agreements I had with Carlos have not been respected. They always go against me. Like the lady who spoke on the Sonsoles program whom we have never seen. The argument they give me for me not to release the album is that they don’t want me to live off of my voice. But it was our dream and we said that we were going to be the ‘Lyrical Pimpernel’.
Q: What do you do now?
R: It was very difficult for me to sing again because I couldn’t get over the grief. The princess musical was a help and now I am the image of some Norwegian health products that have helped me a lot. I am in talks with the bank to see how I can pay for the apartment. I know that Carlos’s sister doesn’t care if I’m left lying in the street like a dog and that’s why every time they see me in some media they go against me, like that lady who appeared on the program. She’s not a fan, she’s a fanatic. Does it seem normal to you that he hides in the cemetery to see his family? Or take photos lying on Carlos’ bed?
Q: During Carlos’ life, did he already have problems with his family?
R: There were always things with his sister but what happened with his mother was a surprise. I never thought he would treat me like this. I knew perfectly well what a good relationship we had and that we wanted to give each other a new opportunity. It has been three very hard years in which they have not informed me of anything and now they are rushing to get me to sign the liquidation of my shares. I have told them no.
Q: After separating from Carlos, she became pregnant with her daughter with her new partner. Carlos didn’t want to have children?
R: Carlos loved my daughter as if she were his own. He is twelve years old and it is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me. We wanted to have a baby but I didn’t get pregnant. Once in Paris I think I had a natural abortion but the truth is that the child did not come. We believed in Japanese Buddhism and that is why we had a family communion ceremony in which the three of us were integrated and I know that he loved her as if she were his own daughter. I repeat that he was a charismatic and wonderful man, nothing to do with his family. The fact that we were so happy seems to bother them. They continue to deny me and say that we were only married for three years, ignoring the almost twenty years as a couple. Like when they deny that he called me before he died. And he did it. We talked before he was intubated and I encouraged him a lot, although when I hung up I went crazy.
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