Fernández Tapias and his wife had not been married for more than ten years

Fernando Fernandez Tapias He married for the first time with Victoria de la Riva Suardíaz, Chiqui, daughter of an important shipowner and mother of his first four children. Her second wedding was with Juana García Courelmother of two other children (Sandra and Juan Carlos), and that second divorce, in 1997, was one of the most ‘expensive’ in the history of Spain until then: 2,000 million pesetas (12 million euros) for her ex. woman, not counting real estate properties.

Con Nuria Gonzalez, his third wife, had been married for more than two decades but “they had not actually been married for more than ten years,” according to the version of some relatives. This third marriage of Fefé came after her stormy affair with Sea Flowerswhich ended the major scandal on the cover of Interview in bed with Lequio. That image of the Italian with the woman he loved, in the bed of a hotel in Rome, left Tapias devastated.

After that humiliation, Nuria González, Mar’s friend and partner, called Tapias to be the shoulder to cry on and support him. But Fefé never forgot Mar Flores, they had even regained contact and spoke on the phone from time to time, until someone prevented the businessman from contacting her.

María Eugenia Yagüe says in The world that “the marriage of Tapias and Nuria González has not been as idyllic as gossip magazines have presented it.” She cites the journalist as witnesses of the disagreements between the shipowner and Nuria, friends and acquaintances of the couple. We talk about “verbal expletives” against her. But there is more: she told him, literally: “You’re a lollipop, I’m going to put you on the bus and send you to Palencia”. The newspaper also reports that Fefé even pushed her away with bad words when he was admitted to the ICU. In 2012, Fefé commissioned his lawyers to prepare the court papers. divorce and it wasn’t the only time. Only the fear of loneliness and losing her minor children prevented him from making the end of her third marriage official.