Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 86 years old) is one of the protagonists of one of the most famous breakups of 2022, and yet he had not yet spoken.
Until now, the other protagonist of the story, Isabel Preysler (Manila, Philippines, 71 years old), had done so on Wednesday, when the
socialite
announced the end of her eight-year relationship with the writer through brief statements to the magazine
Hello!
.
She had also spoken around the Nobel Prize winner, giving explanations about the reasons for the breakup, but he remained to speak.
"The only thing I want is to confirm the interview that Isabel has given," Vargas Llosa assured the media that were waiting for him at the door of his home in Madrid on Sunday night, New Year's Eve.
"I feel very well," he added as he got out of a taxi wearing a coat and a black hat.
The writer, back from spending New Year's Eve in Paris with his family, where Álvaro, one of his sons, lives, thus confirming the separation.
Although the Nobel Prize winner did not want to give more details to the press, he did deny that jealousy was the cause.
"The reasons for the breakup do not exist," he settled.
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Mario Vargas Llosa's environment explains the break with Isabel Preysler: “They were incompatible.
He is interested in culture and she is interested in entertainment”
"Mario and I have decided to end our relationship permanently."
That was the short and sharp message that Isabel Preysler launched through the magazine
Hello!
less than a week ago
.
In mid-December, and according to the publication, after a scene of jealousy, the writer would have left his partner's home, in the Puerta de Hierro urbanization in Madrid, where they both lived.
Vargas Llosa then settled in his home in the center of Madrid.
But this was not the only great crisis that one of the most mediatic and atypical couples in the heart press had experienced.
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At the beginning of the summer, Vargas Llosa returned to his apartment in the center of the capital, although shortly after he returned to the mansion on Miraflores avenue, according to what this newspaper learned.
It was at that time that the couple had to deny the breakup rumors, which were confirmed in December.
After the announcement of the separation, those closest to the writer described the couple made up of Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Preysler as "two people from very different worlds."
“They were incompatible.
He is interested in culture and she is interested in entertainment.
There is an abyss between the two”, these sources explained to this newspaper about the two main reasons that had precipitated the break: the discrepancies in their lifestyles and the lack of common plans.
After the announcement of the end of their relationship, the two have put land in the middle and have moved away from Spain and the media pressure that the news has generated.
Isabel Preysler was traveling to Miami (USA) to reunite there with two of her children, Chabeli and Enrique Iglesias, with whom she has welcomed 2023. On Friday, Mario Vargas Llosa was doing it, catching a flight from the airport in Madrid to the French capital, the destination chosen by the writer to welcome the new year.