Up in arms. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario entered the Barcelona Courts elusively and quietly and testified before the judge on the verge of tears. Her ex-husband, Josep Santacana, has arrived calmer. He was carrying a backpack and stopped to talk to the media. Both appeared before the judge this Tuesday the 12th morning to testify for an alleged crime of removing assets in order to avoid an embargo. They accumulate a debt of 6.1 million. The Prosecutor’s Office asks for 4 years in prison for them. A very difficult moment for the former tennis player, whose story about her precarious economic situation in an interview in The country It clashes head-on with her ex’s version, who claims that Arantxa lives in Miami “in a luxury apartment.”
Santacana has released more details about the former tennis player’s apartment: “It is in Miami Bay, 200 meters from Enrique Iglesias’ house.” And even more: there she lives with her children, Arantxa, 14 years old, and Leo, 11. “She insists on taking them to a private school,” she revealed to the newspaper. Her ex-husband gives the other version: “Arantxa has companies, money and real estate (…) she has her assets hidden from her.” Furthermore, she assures that she has never managed it: “Everything was run by her family.”
In the interview he reflects on the reason that led Sánchez Vicario to hold him responsible for the million-dollar debt. “It’s out of spite.” For the marriage that she broke down in 2018 and that ended in a complicated divorce process.
Arantxa’s version
This reality has nothing to do with the still photograph that she took of herself in the aforementioned newspaper about the financial difficulties she is going through. “I raise my children thanks to the money that friends leave me. I get by with that.” A situation that raised alarm bells. “With what I have earned, not being able to make a living from tennis is a very hard blow that I did not expect. My mistake was falling in love. My husband played it against me. But I am not going to throw in the towel. I am making a brutal economic effort that I will continue to make my whole life,” Arantxa said. These two antagonistic versions come into focus now that the trial against both of them has just begun for an alleged crime of confiscation of assets.