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Lollobrigida said she met her husband to be, Javier Rigau y Rafols of Barcelona, Spain, at a party in Monte Carlo and the two have been dating for 22 years.
The Italian actress, 89, hailed as the world’s most beautiful woman in the 1950s, accused Javier Rigau y Rafols of fooling her into marrying him in 2010 to get his hands on her fortune.
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The screen siren told authorities in Rome that Rigau had married her by proxy in Barcelona, Spain by obtaining legal documents from her. He employed a look-alike, “a certain Teresa”, to stand in for the actress. The star alleges that Rigau has performed other scams in the past, which she found out about on the internet.
Jan 19, 2023 · One party with a stake in the proceedings is Spanish businessman Javier Rigau i Ràfols, to whom Lollobrigida became engaged in 2006, aged 79. The engagement was called off, but Rigau is said to have later married her ‘by proxy’ in 2010.
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In October 2006, at age 79, she announced to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine her engagement to a 45-year-old Spanish businessman, Javier Rigau y Rafols (Catalan: Javier Rigau i Ràfols). They had met at a party in Monte Carlo in 1984 and had since become companions.
Jan 16, 2023 · The man, Javier Rigau y Rafols, claimed Lollobrigida signed the marriage documents and that witnesses could verify the union. Photos of the two together had circulated for years.
May 22, 2015 · The prosecution case is that Spanish businessman Javier Rigau y Rafols, 53, tricked his elderly lover into signing documents that gave him the right to “marry” her by proxy at a church in...
