Javier Rigau, ex-husband of Gina Lollobrigida: “I will be in the front row at the funeral”

Although her last years have been surrounded by controversial relationships and family disagreements that have filled covers on couché paper and entertainment television, finally the beautiful diva of Italian cinema, Gina Lollobrígida, She has left surrounded by her entire family. her son, Milkoand his grandson, Dimitri, have been in charge of making the news of his death known to the world: “In this moment of great pain, the family requests the utmost respect from the media.” She was also in Rome, her ex-husband, the Spanish javier rigauwho assures that he has been able to say goodbye to the actress and that he will help organize the funeral, in which as husband he will be in the front row.

As often happens, the great Gina Lollobrigida suffered a fall at home and such accidents are very dangerous when you are very old. She could not recover from this. It happened last September and the great Italian actress broke her femur. For this reason, she is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, she was still admitted to the Pius XI private clinic in Rome, where she died this Monday.

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The Catalan lawyer Javier Rigau, who was her Spanish husband and the cause of a good part of the scandals that “La Lollo” starred in in recent years, assures from Rome that he has been there since last week, that he has said goodbye to the diva and that stays for the funeral: “Everything is very sad. Gina called me through her son and last Friday we were able to say goodbye properly with her son and grandson. Since that day I have been staying in a hotel a few meters from the clinic. I will stay with Milko and Dimitri to organize the funeral where I, as the husband, will be in the front row,” he says as published by the newspaper ABC.

the protagonist of bread, love and fantasy denounced Rigau in 2010, with whom he had had a sentimental relationship, because he managed to marry the diva without her consent, that is, by proxy through the impersonation of his identity in Barcelona and thanks to a document or power of attorney that he had made sign for another matter years before. This marriage is registered in Section 2 of the Civil Registry of Barcelona.

Rigau has appeared in various media to tell his version of his bizarre relationship with the elderly Gina, 34 years older than him. In 2019, he gave an interview in which he stated that he had had his first intimate encounter with Gina Lollobrigida at the age of 15, since they met when he was that age during a party in Monaco to which the lawyer’s family was invited: “There we met for the first time and had a sexual encounter. I remember it was in a car, a Rolls Royce. She came to Barcelona to see me until I was of legal age. I have the memory of a life partner, of a girlfriend and later of a wife. A woman with a very changeable personality. When we were both at home, she was charming, “said the Catalan.

On another occasion he explained the annulment of his marriage granted to the actress by Rome: “In Spain the case was filed and in Italy he lost the lawsuit, after I was acquitted. Pope Francis, seeing that a dissolution could not be reached By judgment, what he did was a dispensation based on Gina’s advanced age and admits that the marriage has been valid for the nine years that it has lasted.”

Since that year Rigau has been the ex-husband of Gina Lollobrígida, and as such he allied himself with the actress’s son and grandson to stop the bleeding of the star’s fortune, which was disappearing at the hands of his personal assistant, Andrew Piazzolla, and his parents. They had lived with Gina for years and plundered her fortune by taking advantage of the mental weakness of the Italian actress.

Gina’s legacy was valued at 35 million euros, but Rigau at the time already clarified that after the Piazzola action, “Gina’s assets are limited to a villa in Rome on Via Apia Antica, and an apartment of about 40 square meters with a room in Monaco. She has sold three small apartments in Rome and all her jewels. What she has left is seized in court to prevent these new people around her from taking it from her.”

As a result of her death, it will be known sooner rather than later what fortune really remained and how the three men in her life who have been by her side to say goodbye to her will share it with her.