Kike Sarasola, bad in business and in love: separates from Carlos Marrero after 30 years together and 16 married

Kike Sarasola He is not at his best. The businessman separates from Carlos Marrero, after 30 years of relationship, 16 of marriage and two children, gestated through surrogate bellies. This personal setback is linked to the difficulties that his boutique hotel chain, Room Mate, has been dragging since last year 2022 when his debts became known and that the eldest daughter of Amancio Ortegaowner of 31% of the business, would like to evict you from two of your hotels.

It has been the wear and tear on the couple that has ended with one of the longest-running and most consolidated gay love stories. After a few months of “taking time”, but finally they have not resolved the apathy and the dent that the last two hard years have made in their relationship, due to the covid, and due to business problems.

Sarasola and Marrero were married on October 26, 2006 and have two children, the fatherwhich came to the world in 2012, and Enrique, who was born in 2015. They were both born in California via surrogacy. Children will still be able to see how their parents work together, but they will live at different addresses.

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Kike, who has told vanity the details of the decision, describes the situation as “sad”: “Any break involves complicated moments and more when we continue to love each other.” The hotelier confirms that it is not a matter of third parties. What there is is “a wear and tear that we have not been able to overcome. Carlos has been my partner for many years and now we take different paths in the affective aspect, but not as parents.” He assures that they will continue “working together and sharing life with our two children, which is the most important thing for both of us. And that they don’t have a bad time because of our decision,” he emphasizes.

The couple has homes close at a distance for each one, so they can continue raising their children and “sharing many things”, in what seems to be a friendly separation, in which the respect and love that until now have prevailed shared as family.

Sarasola acknowledges that the last few years “have been very hard. The covid has taken its toll on us and we needed our space and time for each other. We have been separated for some time, but it is not definitive. Time will be our best ally. There are thirty years that we have spent together and happily”.

Kike and his businesses have made headlines in the last three years, ever since it became known that he was the “landlord” of Isabel Diaz Ayusothe president of the Community of Madrid, when she spent the confinement staying in one of her hotels and the bulky bill was paid by the Madrid public treasury, after it was disclosed that she was the disinterested host.

It was also learned that he was drowning in debt due to a loan that the Atitlan fund granted him at the time, directed by Roberto Ryeson-in-law of Juan Roig, the owner of Mercadona. In May 2022, Marta Ortega’s sister wanted to evict the businessman for not coping, during the Covid pandemic, with the full rents of Room Mate Waldorf Towers and Room Mate Grace Hotel, two of the chain’s hotels, of which Amancio Ortega’s eldest daughter owned 31%.

Sarasola has managed to return to the forefront of his “cute” hotel empire thanks to the investment of the American fund Angelo Gordon and the Canadian hotel manager Westmont Hospitality, which in January of this year gave him another chance as business manager.

Kike and Carlos have been one of the couples that have most represented the normality of their sexual condition and their wedding, which was attended by personalities such as Felipe Gonzalez o Eugenia Martinez de Irujowas a great support for the law of homosexual marriages in our country.