The family Goyanes-Lapique is completely broken after the death of the patriarch, Carlosthis Wednesday at his home in Marbella. The businessman was already retired and was enjoying his golden retirement with his wife, Findwhom he married (after a first wedding with Marisol) 49 years ago. In 2025 they would have celebrated their Golden Wedding. Carlos adored his two daughters, Cari and Carlaand at this stage of his life he was completely devoted to his grandchildren, five in total, to whom he felt true devotion.
It was September 20, 1975 when Carlos Goyanes, divorced from Pepa Flores, said “I do” to one of the great ladies of high society at the time, Cari Lapique. It was in the parish of the Virgen Madre de Marbella in front of 600 guests among whom were Carmen Franco, Lola Flores with her daughter Lolita and Pitita Ridruejo, among others.
The children arrived early: Caritina (1976) and Carla (1983). The eldest, married to Antonio Matos and a lover of good cooking, is successful with her own catering company and has two children, Peter and CarlThe young girl, who made her first steps in the world of fashion and jumped into the pages of glossy magazines for a brief romance with the bullfighter Fran Rivera, studied Business Administration and Management and succeeded her father at the head of the family business, Agencias A Promociones Inmobiliarias. She is married to Jorge Benguría and they are the parents of three children, Carlos, Santi and Beltran.
Passionate about sports, Carlos was enjoying the Paris Olympic Games. He didn’t miss a single day, even staying up all night to cheer on the Spanish teams in the competitions. That is the reason, according to TardeARwhich is why his wife left for a flea market on Wednesday without waking him up. At noon, his daughter Cari went to the house to check on him and discovered that her father had died in his sleep.
Five months in prison
Goyanes was the subject of a scandal in 1990 when Judge Baltasar Garzón ordered him to be imprisoned for alleged drug trafficking as part of Operation Mago. He always maintained his innocence and after five months behind bars, he collected the 30 million euros bail that the judge imposed to regain his freedom: “I am very happy to be able to be with my family again. I only regret having had to spend five months to prove that it was totally unfair that I was in prison. Very soon it will be proven that I am totally innocent,” he said at the time. His wife, always at his side, confessed that she had organised a collection among friends and family to get this amount, stratospheric for the time, since half of his fortune (more than 40 million pesetas) had been blocked in the process.
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