Marta Chávarri has died at dawn this Friday at her Madrid home at the age of 62, according to various media from the heart press.
Emergency sources 112 have indicated that at 5:40 p.m. this service received a call that a woman was unconscious at an address on Núñez de Balboa street. A mobile UVI from Summa 112 moved to the property and could only confirm the death of the woman. Pending the autopsy, everything indicates that it is a natural death, the same sources have added.
According to Pronto magazine, Alberto Cortina's ex-wife fell out of bed while still conscious and a domestic employee called one of her sisters, but when the medical services arrived at her home they could do nothing to revive her.
A highly publicized figure in the 1990s, she was born in Madrid on August 1, 1960, the eldest of the five children of Tomás Chávarri, a diplomat, and Matilde Figueroa, daughter of the Marquis of Santo Floro.
In 1982 she married Fernando Falcó y Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Cubas, with whom she had her son Álvaro. Her husband was the brother of Carlos Falcó, Tamara's father, who maintains a very close relationship with her cousin.
Marta Chávarri divorced in 1989 after discovering her relationship with the financier and businessman Alberto Cortina, whom she married in 1991. During that troubled time, Marta relied heavily on her aunt Natalia Figueroa, Raphael's wife.
Cortina and his cousin Alberto Alcocer were married to the millionaire Koplowitz sisters. The first with Esther and the second with Alicia. And the divorces of the two couples caused an earthquake not only social, but also economic due to the business level of all those involved.
The year of their divorce, the magazine "Interviú" published some photos taken eight months earlier, on the night of June 15, 1988, at the Mau Mau nightclub in Madrid where the Marquise had gone accompanied by Fernando Falcó and some friends on the occasion of the awards dinner.
The photos showed the pubic area of Marta Chávarri and the total absence of underwear under her dress, which caused a huge scandal at a time when she was the queen of gossip magazines.
In April 1989, she sued the magazine for the photos published in February, which she considered infringements on her privacy and her own image, a lawsuit she managed to win.
A court of first instance sentenced the journalists Jesús Mariñas and Jaime Campmany, as well as the publishing company of the magazine "Época", to indemnify Chávarri with 21 million pesetas for "non-material damage". According to the text of the sentence, the chronicles written by both in 1989 constituted "an illegitimate interference with the rights to honor and personal and family privacy."
Chávarri and Cortina married in 1991 and divorced in 1995. After that, the former Lady España disappeared from public life.
One of his last appearances was in April 2022 at the wedding of his son Álvaro with Isabelle Junot, daughter of Philippe Junot, the well-known playboy who was married to Carolina de Mónaco and who also had a brief relationship with Chávarri.
