The placid 71 years of Juan Villalonga, former president of Telefónica, divorced from Corinna’s friend

Juan Villalonga Navarro (Madrid, April 8, 1953), known above all for having been president of Telefónica, took over the company in 1997, thanks to the support of his schoolmate, in Pilar, José María Aznar. Three years later he had to leave office under accusations of having used privileged information, although he was acquitted by the CNMV. Even today, however, Villalonga is charged and awaiting trial for the Sintel case Spain. In 2017, his name came to light in the case of the so-called Paradise Papers (tax evasion).

But beyond his controversial actions at the head of those three years, in which many experts believe that he delayed the advance in new technologies in Spain, and in all the countries in which Telefónica was the dominant operator, or the takeover of media communication or acquisitions of giants like Endemol, Juan Villalonga has well earned his space as a character in Hola, that is, protagonist of the social chronicle. And in some cases in its most sordid and least glamorous aspect.

The former president of Telefónica was accused of being behind the dissemination of that famous conversation between Corinna and former commissioner Villarejo that led Judge García Castellón to reopen the Carol piece of the Villarejo case and summon Juan Carlos I’s lover and himself. Villalonga as accused, identified as a link between the King’s friend and the former police officer. The explanation was in the German millionaire and aristocrat Vanessa von Zitzewitzphotographer, third wife of the businessman since 2010, mother of his seventh child, and friend of Corinna.

It was she who portrayed Hola to the lover of the Emeritus. Now, it has come to light that Juan Villalonga has divorced again, amid lawsuits and judicial disagreements. The former president of Telefónica has confirmed to María Eugenia Yagüe for El Mundo the end of his third and so far last marriage: “The world does not end because of that and we have to get used to the fact that now relationships begin and end and nothing happens. The page is turned and that’s it,” said the businessman, in addition to pointing out that the breakup with the baroness and mother of his youngest son, Rodrigo, occurred “some time ago.”

Villalonga’s now ex has portrayed personalities of the caliber of Charlene of Monaco, Carla Bruni, Monica Belucci, Alain Delon, Georges Clooney or Mick Jagger or to himself King Juan Carlos. But without a doubt her most important photo was the one that Hola took to its cover on March 6, 2013, the portrait of her friend Corinna Larsen that accompanied the king’s mistress’s explanations about the Botswana incident.

Three marriages, father of seven children and grandfather of six grandchildren

Villalonga is the father of seven children and grandfather of six grandchildren, born to the three eldest children, Juan, Jaime and Andrea, the result of his marriage to the antiques dealer Concha Tallada, close to Ana Botella. The businessman’s first wife and Villalonga himself came to this very close to José María Aznar, Villalonga’s partner, but that relationship was blown up when the executive left his wife for the Mexican Adriana Abascal (54), whom he married. after the death of the miss’s former love, in 1997, the Mexican communications magnate Emilio Azcárraga, one of the richest El Tigre in Latin America.

The wedding took place in 2001, in the Mexican mansion in Los Angeles and among the guests were Alberto Cortina, the singer Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio and the actress Salma Hayek. Villalonga and Adriana were married for eight years and have three children, Jimena, Paulina and Diego, who live with her mother in Paris, where she has had other relationships, including another marriage.