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Photo from better days: Richard Lugner with his fiancée Simone, known as "Bienchen"
Photo: Franz Neumayr / picture alliance / Franz Neumayr / picturedesk.com
The list of ex-members of the Viennese multimillionaire Richard "Mörtel" Lugner is one entry longer.
The 89-year-old entrepreneur said that he and his fiancée Simone Reiländer, who was 50 years his junior, had many happy moments, but they had realized that they were too different characters.
Lugner put a ring on his girlfriend's finger at his birthday party in October.
In accordance with his habit of giving female partners animal nicknames, Lugner had called his fiancée "little bees" according to the Austrian tabloid media.
She thus became part of the »love zoo« that Lugner had proclaimed, into which he had previously accepted his ex-partners with nicknames such as »Mausi«, »Hasi«, »Käfer«, »Katzi«, »Kolibri« and »Spatzi«.
"It wasn't easy for both of us," said Lugner about his separation from Simone.
He has had five marriages and several relationships with significantly younger women.
Lugner's appearance at the open ball is canceled again
The entrepreneur is particularly famous for his appearances at the Vienna Opera Ball, to which he usually invites a prominent companion to his box.
At the last edition of the event, Lugner was accompanied by the Italian actress Ornella Muti, but the opera ball was canceled last year.
The opera ball scheduled for February 2022 has already been canceled due to the corona pandemic.
fek / dpa