Nuria Gonzalez has spoken after the death of her husband, Fernando Fernandez Tapias, on October 25 at the age of 84 due to a heart attack. During these weeks, the relationship between the businessman’s widow and older children has been in the media spotlight. He has already taken legal action.
“Doña Nuria González through her legal advisors in response to the numerous mentions that appeared in the media, both printed and audiovisual, that refer to aspects pertaining to the strictest privacy of the marriage formed with Don Fernando Fernández-Tapias and, in some of them, even influencing the right to honor of both, issues this first and only statement announcing the imminent start of all legal actions assisting it in defense of the fundamental rights violated against those responsible for the media, its directors and people who have facilitated them and /or disclosed”, reads the first part of the statement that he has released through his legal team.
“Article 20.4 of the Constitution establishes the limits of public freedoms of information and expression with respect especially to the rights to honor, privacy and self-image, which have been violated on repeated occasions by the mentions that appeared as a result of the death of Mr. Fernando Fernández-Tapias, whose fundamental rights, like those of his wife and children together, will be protected as often as required,” they say. As a result of the marriage of González and Fernández Tapias, Ivanwho is already 20 years old, and Alma16.
Since Fernández Tapias died, his widow’s relationship with his older children has taken center stage. Weeks after the death of the first vice president of Real Madrid, González is willing to take legal measures as she has indicated in her forceful statement. Not only to protect herself, but also her children.
It must be remembered that the eldest children of Fernández Tapias filed a lawsuit against their father in 2021 to legally incapacitate him and thus challenge the transfer of powers that he had initiated months before in his business conglomerate. Fernández Tapias dismissed the seniors (Fernando, Borja e Íñigofruit of his first marriage with Chiqui Riva de Luna) in favor of his other children Juan Carlos y Sandraborn from his second marriage with Juana García-Courel. Nuria González, in turn, began to have a very important role in their companies. At the businessman’s funeral home the focus was on the alleged family tensions. In addition, two obituaries were published, one by Nuria and her children, another by the elders.