We have to recognize that each new chapter that we learn about the break between Isabel Preysler and Mario Vargas Llosa has us more living room than the previous one. Between what if the most elegant woman in Spain left the Nobel Prize winner because he made fun of Tamara Falcó, if she continued with him just because she felt sorry for his advanced age or the details of their intimate relationships, we don’t need chapters or stories. bitter land nor of Original sin. Now Pilar Eyre has shelled the millionaire sources of income that the writer and ex of our queen of hearts has. What we like a gossip…
He is 86 years old and has a million-dollar heritage that is not only a product of his books, but also that the Peruvian writer has been able to diversify its economic activity. According to the journalist Pilar Eyre, on her YouTube channel, she has had access to the editorial numbers of the Peruvian and has taken out the calculator to check the correlation between her sales and the media exposure that being in a sentimental relationship with one of the main characters from gossip magazines.
Although, when they started dating, he has said that he hated show business, glamor and magazines… some people in the publishing world thought that Mario would benefit from being on the covers of glossy paper. However, this phenomenon did not occur… Mario appeared on many magazine covers but said publicity was not accompanied by increased sales of his books” in the eight years that the relationship lasted, according to Eyre.
Despite this, Mario cannot complain because he has a very good contract with his publisher and, in advance of each book, he charges one and a half million euros, has revealed Pilar Eyre. It is what she has to have won in 2010 the Nobel Prize for Literature, a prize that also has an endowment of 10 million Swedish crowns (approximately one million euros).
But, as we said before, Vargas Llosa lives not only by writing books. In the newspaper where he writes, he has a contract of 200,000 euros a year, according to Eyre. In addition, we must also take into account the conferences that he gives and for which he can pocket a million euros. Thus, some media calculate his monthly salary at about 65,000 eurosand an accumulated millionaire that is around 10 million euros, bringing together 200 published works, articles, conferences and university classes.
One may think that, after the breakup, his heirs will have rest easy again. Although, probably, they could always do it since his assets are totally controlled by him through the company Misti Copyright SLU, which created in 2016 after appearing in the Panama Papers. His objective is to manage and exploit the copyrights of his own work and the rest of his professional activities and this “infatuation with the pichula” does not seem to have affected his business for better or worse.
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