Belinda, with the engagement ring, after Christian Nodal asked her to marry him.
The love break between the singers Belinda and Christian Nodal has become the topic of the moment.
The problems between the couple had been rumored for weeks, but the cancellation of the wedding was confirmed one day before Valentine's Day.
The drama has reached the debate on whether or not the Spanish artist – naturalized Mexican – should return the engagement ring that Nodal gave her last May, valued at more than three million dollars (about 60 million pesos).
The controversy began after the driver Galilea Montijo commented on the television program
Hoy
that Belinda should keep the expensive jewel.
“I have always said, the rings do not return, the stones stay, the men leave.
One day they asked me for the ring and I told him 'with pleasure' and I threw it in his face... what is given is not taken away, "she said and the social networks exploded.
Beyond the tradition of returning the ring in the event of a broken engagement, Belinda is not required to do so, unless her ex-boyfriend asks her to.
The Civil Code of Mexico City establishes that future spouses can request "antenuptial donations" back.
"Donors have the right to demand the return of what they have given on the occasion of the marriage from the moment they became aware of the non-celebration of the marriage", indicates article 230 of the code of the capital, although the regulations may vary. depending on the State in which a claim was filed.
In case of keeping the jewel, the interpreter of
Luz Sin Gravidad
will have to pay around a third of its value in taxes.
The Income Tax Law (ISR) states that donations that exceed 600,000 pesos are required to pay a tax, which in this case can reach 21 million pesos (close to one million dollars).
Tax evasion is not a new issue around the singer.
Until last year, her fiscal debt amounted to seven million pesos, according to what the Treasury made public at the end of December.
In addition, in 2013, Belinda was accused by the Prosecutor's Office of tax evasion for almost two million pesos, but the crime was not finally proven.
The controversial ring is a piece with a 12-carat emerald-cut diamond accompanied by gems from Angel City Jewelers, designed especially for Belinda.
The singer gave it to him on May 26, 2021 in an exclusive restaurant in Barcelona, after nine months of relationship.
The wedding of the couple baptized as "Nodeli" was getting closer, but the cancellation was announced last weekend.
"To all my fans and friends of the press I want to share that we have decided to end our commitment and our relationship as a couple, each taking the best of the other," the regional Mexican music singer published in a statement on his social networks.
“With much gratitude for having accompanied us during this time.
I ask for respect for the decision we have made, where each one will live their separation process in their own way and always wishing each other the best for the happy times lived and those of trial as well.
Everything that is speculated is false, ”he stated.
After three days of silence, Belinda shared on social networks that she has had difficult days.
“I am starting a new stage in my life, concentrating on being well both spiritually and professionally.
I close this cycle learning that the day a woman can love not with her weakness, but with her strength, not escape from herself, but find herself, not humiliate herself, but affirm herself, that day love will be for her, as for man, source of life”, he exposed in his social networks.
The reason for the breakup of the couple of the year, crowned by
People en Español
magazine last December, remains an enigma.
However, the versions range from a possible infidelity until Nodal's mother asked Belinda to get away from her son.
Another, which has already been denied, was that Belinda asked Nodal for a loan to pay the debts of a house that her ex-boyfriend, the singer Lupillo Rivera, had given her.
"I never had to give Belinda any money, she never bought her anything, well, she did buy her little gifts, a bag here and there, but nothing extravagant," Rivera said in an interview with
Telemundo
.
The singer has accused this Friday "public and media people" of exercising gender violence by making judgments with stereotypes of how women should behave in relationships and has advanced that she will take legal action.
“This is not just for me, but for each and every woman who is judged for living her life in freedom.
Women are not forced to meet stereotyped expectations of a society that sentences us to behave in a certain way, ”she reads in the message.
Throughout my career, the media have been an important part, accompanying my evolution and being the bridge with many and many of my fans.
That is why, on occasions, I have decided to let them in to discover part of my private life...
– Belinda (@belindapop) February 18, 2022
The romance between the singers also began between rumors that were confirmed in August 2020, when both were
coaches
of the La Voz México program.
There they met and began an intense relationship with expressive displays of affection: Belinda marked Nodal's initials on her wrist next to a heart and Nodal tattooed Belinda's blue eyes on her chest, her name near an ear and an arrow on the wrist.
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