The Truth About Diego Maradona's Wife

May 2024 · 1 minute read

Though Diego Maradona and Claudia Villafañe were initially friendly after their twenty-year marriage ended, things eventually got ugly between the two of them. In 2015, he accused her of stealing nearly $9 million from his bank accounts, according to BBC. He described his ex as "a thief" and remarked, "If she did what we fear she did, unfortunately she will have to go to jail." 

In 2018, he claimed that she was using his money to buy several condos in Miami Beach, Florida, which was reported by the Miami New Times. Maradona also accused his ex of creating "at least five different shell companies" to buy and sell real estate in Florida, all with his money. Initially, there was confusion regarding where the case could be tried as the statute of limitations had run out in Argentina, but they eventually were cleared to proceed with the suit in Florida, per Associated Press. In his lawsuit, he claimed that she had been stealing his money since 1999, but he didn't notice until he underwent a financial audit in 2014. The last update on the suit came in 2018, and it seems that the case was not resolved before the athlete died in 2020. Villafañe has not commented on her ex-husband's passing at the time of this writing.

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