The demolition of La Gaviota, the Marbella house that belonged to Encarna Sánchez, is ordered

It was the house where her daughter, Stella del Carmen, grew up, and which once belonged to Encarna Sánchez: La Gaviota. Now, Antonio Banderas has regretted the demolition of the house. All following a Supreme Court ruling dating back to 2015. In this way, The actor has been left without one of his favorite refuges in the worldlocated in the Los Monteros Sur area, one of the most exclusive in Marbella.

The chalet where Antonio Banderas was so happy with Melanie Griffith and where he spent so many hours with Nicole Kimpel It was built with an illegal license granted in 1995 by the Government team of Jesús GilIsabel Pantoja has also passed through the walls of La Gaviota, as a result of the close friendship she maintained with Encarna Sánchez.

The journalist used this property as a summer residence, although her illness meant that she could only enjoy it for a short period of time. Jesús Gil provided her with the land to build La Gaviota after the support that the journalist gave him through COPE in the elections of 1991 and 1995.

The Malaga-born actor bought this house in the summer of 1996, just a few months after the journalist’s death from cancer.and since then it has been one of its great treasures. In 2020, he spent the Covid lockdown there. The magazine Readings The demolition of the house was announced on Tuesday after more than a decade of legal dispute that ultimately had a fatal outcome for the Spanish film star.

The actor has expressed on more than one occasion that he has felt like a victim of the Marbella town hall. “I have not committed any illegality, I bought the house from a third party with all the papers in order and if the town hall deceived me I am not to blame,” said the star of Pain and Glory in 2013 to Vanity. By then, he had already given up part of his garden following an agreement with the town planning authorities so that the city council could build a footbridge to cross the stream that borders the house.