Summary 2023: The death of Marta Chávarri, the victim of the sexual scandal that made the Ibex tremble

On July 21 we woke up to the death at the age of 62 of Marta Chavarrifor the youngest Álvaro Falcó's mother, the cousin of the Marchioness of Griñón. She was found dead at dawn, at her home in Madrid. Just a month earlier, on June 11, she became a grandmother with the birth of PhilippaÁlvaro's daughter and Isabelle Junot.

The story of Marta Chávarri It is that of a woman of overwhelming beauty who, however, he was unlucky in love; but, unfortunately for him, he also represented the icon of an era, between the late 80s and 90s, when he was the protagonist of one of those scandals that transcended the social chronicle and was meat not only on the covers of gossip magazines or of Interview but it flooded the economic media and all the newspapers: jet set, aristocracy, financial battles, blackmail, infidelity and some lurid images mixed together to build around the beautiful Marta Chávarri what for her was a horror film that she never managed to achieve. recover.

The scandal of photos without underwear

It was very close to Valentine's Day in 1989 when the then director general of ONCE, Miguel Duran, He received a call in his office on Prado Street in Madrid, a stone's throw from the Congress of Deputies and the Palace Hotel. On the other end of the phone he heard the voice of Alberto Cortina: “I have to see you,” he told her. He was going to tell her about his girlfriend's photos.Marta Chávarri, who at that time was still the Marchioness of Cubas, because she was still married to Fernando Falcó. The photos were already taken Interview that showed the pubic hair of Marta Chávarri sitting in a nightclub, without underwear, but their publication could still be stopped.

The businessman and still husband of Alicia Koplowitz It didn't take him long to reach the headquarters of the National Organization of the Blind of Spain because he was leaving the Palace, where he had had breakfast with the editor of the magazine. Interview and president of Grupo Zeta, Antonio Asensio.

At that Palace breakfast, Alberto Cortina met the then president of Group Z, who explained to him that I had some photos and I wanted to ask him a favor in exchange for not publishing them.

“Marquise without panties”

The photos of her without underwear, in which part of her pubic hair could be seen, cost six million pesetas. The images were published abroad and flooded the covers of important publications such as Newsweek, The Sun o Time. The headlines were like: “Marquise without panties can jeopardize a 30 billion merger.”

Some maintain that Marta was used to harm Alberto Cortina. The trick cost Chávarri a severe depression. She could not withstand the media pressure to which she was subjected. Even so, Cortina and Chávarri married in 1991 after the 20 years of marriage between Cortina and Alicia Koplowitz were blown up. Cortina and Chávarri's marriage lasted four years.

The scandal not only ended the marriage between Cortina and Alicia Koplowitz. He ended the role of Los Albertos (cousins ​​Cortina and Alcocer) in the family construction company and blew up the merger between the Central Bank of Alfonso Escamez and the Banesto of the newcomer Mario Conde. Miguel Duran (among others) assures that the photo incident was a maneuver Mario Conde to separate his cousins, the main shareholders of Central, from his plans as a banker. The Galician has never admitted such a thing. Interview With these photographs he obtained one of his greatest sales successes.

The funeral of Marta Chávarri

At Chávarri's funeral, held on July 22 at the La Paz funeral home, we saw the sisters of the deceased, María e Isabelthe tax inspector Antonio Gutierrez Marcet y Genoveva Fernandez Longoriawho was married to José Luis AlcocerCousin of Alberto Cortina, second husband of Marta Chávarri. Also Maria Zurita o Dear Lapique. Álvaro Falcó did not count on the hug of his cousin Tamara, who was on her honeymoon in South Africa with Inigo Onievawhom he had married just two weeks before.

On October 4, Tamara and Íñigo were at the new mass that was celebrated in memory of the deceased. The ceremony took place in the Jerónimos Church in Madrid. They also joined Raphael And your daughter, Alejandra Martos. It must be remembered that the singer's wife, Natalia Figueroais the aunt of the missing aristocrat. Carlos TorrettaMarta Ortega's husband, was also among the attendees, as well as Eugenia Martínez de Irujowho was very affected.