From ‘belenazos’ to ‘corinnazos’. The idea for a time of some directors of Mediaset or its associated production companies was to recover the audience using the former lover of Juan Carlos I as their new star, as Belén Esteban or Rocío Carrasco were before. own Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein volunteered to participate in a serial series that was going to be produced by Ana Rosa Quintana’s company, in which Mediaset has a stake. Everything was prepared and ready to begin developing the new bombshell until ‘a black hand’ vetoed the project as it had done with another titled Save the King that finally premiered on HBO. But this time, those responsible for carrying out the project were warned not to try to carry out the series anywhere. Another lover of Don Juan Carlos, like Bárbara Rey, has generated good audience returns both on Antena 3 (in series and documentaries) and on Mediaset, where the star’s son (now on Survivors) marked some of the best data of DeViernes.
Works about the shadows of the Spanish monarchy are multiplying on streaming platforms and editorials. In recent years, several series have appeared that address the situation of Zarzuela after the endless scandals involving Juan Carlos de Borbón, who abdicated the throne in 2014 and left Spain in 2020. Documentary series such as ‘Save the King’ (HBO Max), ‘Los Borbones’ (Atresplayer), ‘Juan Carlos I: the fall’ (Sky Showtime) will be joined by a new work being prepared by Netflix about the fall of the emeritus in Botswana.
These productions, and many other editorial works, such as those signed by Carlos Fonseca, Ana Romero or Pilar Urbano, delve more into the past controversies of Zarzuela than in the current ones starring mainly Doña Letizia, see ‘Letizia and I’ by Jaime Peñafiel, fired from The world after the publication of the book based on the testimonies of Jaime del Burgo, ex-husband of Telma Ortiz.
And in these scandals of the past I intended to delve into a project that circulated on television last year and that was going to have the German businesswoman as its protagonist. Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, ex-lover of the emeritus and beneficiary of the 65 million euros that Felipe de Borbón’s father gave her.
Corinna, who accused the former president of the Spanish National Intelligence Center Félix Sanz Roldán of threatening her in a London hotel, gave the green light to star in a docuseries in which she was going to address the details of her relationship with Juan Carlos de Borbón, whom she met in 2004 and whom he later accused of “harassment”, “illegal surveillance” and “defamation”.
On November 2, 2020, Okdiario published the first audiovisual interview with Corinna. The head of research for the aforementioned media, Manuel Cerdán, and Eduardo Inda himself, had recorded the interview on September 28 at the Connaught Hotel in London. The 57-minute piece titled ‘Corinna: the last word’, included several impact headlines: “Sanz Roldán sent my house to the former king in 2019 with a microphone hidden in a pin with the flag of Spain”, “The donation of 65 million It was a will meditated and executed during his lifetime that took him a year to prepare” or “King Juan Carlos’s administrators transferred large sums of money between Switzerland and Madrid.”
Corinna stated in the interview that “the relationship” with Juan Carlos “began in 2004. From time to time there were ups and downs, because he is not an easy man to deal with (…) Over time I began to see that he was not faithful to nobody, myself included, and it also became clear that he does not lead a double life. Men are often spoken of as leading a double life. It was possible for him to lead a multitude of lives, so he was not easy for anyone to lead, and I was not “I wanted to be part of a harem.”
From Unicorn to the office of the president of Mediaset España
The Spanish digital interview had a global impact and led the journalistic tandem last year to try to repeat the operation, in this case trying to ‘milk’ the issue and record a new face to face with Corinna with the intention of marketing it through a television network or streaming platform.
Sources close to Mediaset España point out that Cerdán and Inda, a talk show host in recent seasons of Ana Rosa’s program, and currently in The Critical Look, among other programs, they negotiated with Unicorn Content so that the production company chaired by Ana Rosa Quintana joined the project. And the audiovisual factory, in principle, was integrated into it.
Cerdán and Inda traveled to London in the past to receive the green light from Corinna, who accepted the offer. But, upon their return to Madrid, Unicorn Content and both journalists received a “resounding no” from Mediaset España through its then president, Borja Prado, theoretically without executive power but not in this case, related to the Royal Family, of the that Juan Carlos I She is still a part, like Queen Sofía.
The refusal was so strong that it invited Unicorn Content, in which Mediaset itself participates, to separate itself from the project. The company directed by Xelo Montesinos was also aware of Prado’s anger because a subsidiary of a trusted Mediaset production company, Producciones Mandarina, signed another similar project, Saving the King.
Telecinco refused to broadcast the first episode of Save the King even though it had the possibility of starting the documentary series broadcast on HBO at the time.
Mandarina Producciones (a company owned by Mediaset España, responsible for titles such as Salsa Rosa, Enemigos intimates or D Viernes) produced through Campanilla films, a subsidiary of that production company Save the King under the direction of Santi Acosta, and in association with Kometa Producciones, by Álvaro García Pelayo, one of the owners of the Gtres agency, specialized in television content from the world of the heart, brother of Paloma García Pelayo, husband of Sandra Aladro and ex-husband of Ángela Portero.
In the documentary that was finally broadcast not by Mediaset, but by HBO, the very famous audios of Bárbara Rey with Juan Carlos I are heard for the first time and conversations and data from the photographer Queca Campillo, the king’s lover, are brought to light. Other lovers and former Spanish Intelligence agents also appear, with names and surnames, explaining the supposed true involvement of the previous head of State in the coup of 23-F, implying that he was aware of what was going to happen but that he maneuvered to that his image would be reinforced, leaving him as the great savior of democracy. They say that it was also Borja Prado who vetoed that free-to-air broadcast within Mediaset and that the former president of the Berlusconi network in Spain also prevented the project of making Corinna the protagonist of a new weekly series, produced by Unicorn in collaboration with Inda and Manuel Cerdán. Sources from Ana Rosa’s production company have confirmed to this portal that this project was studied and that it was discarded, although they do not explain why.
The journalist, writer and former director of Interviú Manuel Cerdán, “who has a direct line with Corinna”, has not written in Okdiario since July of last year, despite maintaining a working relationship with the newspaper run by Inda, with which, according to They tell us, their friendship broke up because of the details of the project that Corinna was going to star in and that did not go ahead. Manuel Cerdán has just published the book ‘Carrero: 50 years of a cursed assassination’ and his working relationship with Okdiario, we are told, will soon be settled in court.
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