Nine days have passed since the death of the shipping businessman and surprising data about the relationship he had with his wife continues to come to light, Nuria Gonzalez. They had been married for more than 20 years and had two children, but their marriage was far from idyllic. This Friday, a former employee of Fernando Fernandez Tapias has revealed: “The relationship between them was fatal, cold, non-existent.”
This woman was part of the crew of Nufer, the businessman’s personal boat: “There were eleven of us, including the bodyguard and the nanny of Iván, the eldest son, who was one year old at the time. It was the worst job of my life,” she said. recounted in YAS. “The lack of respect towards Nuria was brutal, he treated her like shit and she was submissive… He told her ‘You’re stupid’, ‘Shut up, idiot’…”. And adds: “The treatment was very bad, he was very despotic, an animal, he was never happy”.
The woman who was Fefé’s employee assures that he gathered his friends often and that his behavior left a lot to be desired: “They woke you up and you had to go because they wanted a coffee, or turn on the TV, or turn up the volume… They acted as if they had neither feet nor hands.”
Fernández Tapias filed for divorce
This testimony joins those that have seen the light throughout the week and corroborates that the relationship between the businessman and his now widow was very complicated. Some journalists, such as Jiménez Losantos or María Eugenia Yagüe, have claimed to have witnessed Fernández Tapias’ “expletives” towards Nuria: “He told her ‘You’re a jerk, I’m going to put you on the bus and send you to Palencia.'” What’s more, he claims that they had not been married for a decade and that he drafted the divorce papers on two occasions. The first, in 2012. Finally, the fear of loneliness and separation from his youngest children stopped him.
family war
The death of Fernández Tapias at the age of 84 due to a heart attack has exposed a family war that was believed to be over and that began in 2019, when his five eldest children (the result of his first two marriages) filed a lawsuit to legally incapacitate his father. They partially won: the judge determined that the legal-administrative decisions fell on Florentino Pérez and the medical decisions fell on Nuria González.
Fefé cut off all relations with them and his grandchildren, something that they doubt: “It wasn’t him who separated them, it was other people,” said his lawyer, Santiago Ortiz. At the funeral home they were not well received and, in fact, they were prevented from entering the cremation room. They warn: “Now the whole truth will be known.”