The sending to various journalists, by Mar Flores, of a message in which he revealed that he had maintained telephone contact with Fernando Fernandez Tapias until about a year ago, until someone (his wife and guardian Nuria González?) cut off communication, it has been a surprise to many after the tycoon’s death. But not for those of us who closely followed the shipowner’s passionate romance with Alessandro Lequio’s ex-lover.
The eventful relationship between the businessman who died this week and the beautiful model from Usera was brief but intense. Between 1996 and 1997, Fernández Tapias gave himself completely to the woman he believed he had conquered. She was 26 years old and he was almost 58. She had married at 23 and Fefé had already been divorced twice.
The billionaire protected her, he also used all his influences to help her judicially, thanks to his friend, the influential politician from Alianza Popular, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, in the battle she was fighting with her ex-husband Carlo Constanzia, for the custody of his son Carlo, today making headlines for very unpleasant issues. Carlo is the son that Mar and her first husband had in common.
We remember the photos of the tycoon and the actress (she has made some movies) in the snowy Saint Moritz, at the foot of a private plane. She, with a spectacular sable coat, Tapias, smiling and happy, walking her girlfriend through a fashionable destination, reserved only for billionaires.
Mar later confessed that Fefé was charming, but that she got bored with her friends, businessmen who only talked about business and finances. But while she was bored, she accepted his dream trips, furs, very expensive gifts and an apartment in the most expensive area of Madrid.
Apartment in El Viso, near Isabel Preysler
We have learned these days that the then president of the CEIM, the Madrid business association, came to buy an apartment for Sea Flowers on a street in the exclusive Madrid neighborhood of El Viso, not far from where the residence of Isabel Preysler and Carlos Falcó was. There he planned to live with the model until they celebrated her wedding.
The purchase procedures were formalized, but Mar Flores was never able to open her elegant new home. The appearance on the magazine’s newsstands Interview, which had on the cover the photo of a smiling Alessandro Lequio, hugging Mar Flores in a bed in the D’Inghilterra hotel in Rome, located right in front of the Torlonia palace, owned by Lequio’s grandmother, they dynamited the relationship. And, in the process, they destroyed Tapias, betrayed and made a fool of by the woman of his life.
The mocked lover he immediately got rid of the apartment It was going to be his love nest, but he could never get rid of the mark left on his heart by the love he experienced with Mar Flores. She hadn’t forgotten him either. She already says it in her message to journalist friends: “I am very affected by the loss of her and especially by not having been able to say goodbye.” D.E.P