Cesar Alierta, former president of Telefónica, died this Wednesday, January 10 in Zaragoza at the age of 78 after the worsening of his health in recent weeks. The Aragonese businessman was one of the most relevant personalities of the beginning of this century due to his management at the head of the largest Spanish telecommunications operator, whose command he led between July 2000 and April 2016. In the sentimental field, his relationship with Isabel Sartorius (58), one of the first loves of Felipe VI.
After five years of discreet relationship, Sartorius and Alierta broke up definitively in the fall of 2023, just a few months ago, as we published. The one who was Felipe de Borbón's girlfriend and who was the great promoter of one of the most important companies in Europe took a break from their relationship in 2021, when they had already been together for three years. Then we announced that they had finished. The pandemic took its toll on them by having to live apart, but they tried to rebuild at least their friendship again, although it was not easy for them when normality arrived.
Isabel had left her jobs some time before for the Telefónica Foundation, and also, when she began her relationship with the businessman, she left her house on Miguel Ángel Street in Madrid to settle in a much better apartment in the same Chamberí neighborhood, where she lived a voluntary withdrawal from social life, enjoying a peaceful romance. and discreet.
Alierta, who turned 78 in May, widowed and without children, found company and affection in Isabel, but his nephews, to whom he is very close, were not enthusiastic about a relationship that could go further and distance them from their uncle, in family and economic sense. The distancing was friendly, but they never cut off communication and Alierta continued to be a protective friend for Isabel, a cultured, world-class and great beauty woman. Alierta took care of everything she might need.
After the breakup, Sartorius changed his elegant house in Chamberí for a smaller apartment and is living a quiet and solitary moment. As always, he has the support of Nora of Liechtenstein, his father's second wife, Vicente Sartorius, Marquis of Mariño, now deceased. He also does not lack the affection of his brother Luis Sartoriusa hospitality businessman, and Teresa, his stepsister, daughter of his father's marriage to Princess Nora.
Cesar Alierta
The Alierta surname becomes even more relevant in Aragon, since it joins the list of the richest in the community. His father, Cesáreo Alierta, was also mayor of the city and president of Real Zaragoza. In fact, during his mandate, the La Romareda stadium, a street and a school named after him were built.
After the death of his father in 1974, Alierta received two apartments on Teniente Coronel Valenzuela Street with areas of 500 and 300 square meters and shares, with his four brothers, part of a garage in an officially protected building on Avenida of Navarra, according to Vanity Fair.
As if that were not enough, in the area of Puerta de San Pedro he has owned one twelfth of a farm since 1976, in the town of Bujaquera de Río de Lierda one sixth of a field and one twelfth of an estate called border of the Clavetero in Canfranc with a three-hectare hayloft. On the other hand, after the death of his wife, he also owns an undivided fifteenth share of a 126 square meter premises on San Vicente de Paul Street.
On the other hand, and despite having lived for much of his life in Madrid, the former Telefónica number one had nothing to his name in the capital of Spain. César and his wife, Ana Cristina Placer, who died in 2015, first lived on Abelló Street and then settled in Aravaca, in an address that is not in his name.