‘Bosé: Seré’, the SkyShowtime biopic about the life of Miguel Bose It has already become a success since its premiere on March 3. In the series, many hitherto unknown aspects of the biography of the ‘Bandit Lover’ are discovered. The production openly addresses the bisexuality of the artist and opens the ban on some names that were not as well known as Ana Obregón, for example. One of those women is Giannina Facio, the girlfriend of Julio Iglesias that she left him to be with him in the eighties.
This character appears in the third chapter of the series, titled Bravi Ragazzi. In it, Miguel Bosé meets the Costa Rican while he stayed in Miami staying at Julio Iglesias’ house, played by Miguel Ángel Muñoz. But who was this woman really, and why did the ‘Don Diablo’ singer fall so hard for her?
Giannina Facio in the life of Miguel
Giannina with Miguel Bose
Giannina is an actress born in Costa Rica in 1955 (making him currently 67 years old). She has participated in films of which she is her current husband, the famous RidleyScott. He has made ‘White Storm’ and ‘Hannibal’ with the British producer, as well as ‘Gladiator’ or ‘Web of Lies’. But before meeting the filmmaker, when she was only 26 years old, she had a sentimental relationship with the incomparable Julio Iglesias.
She had been with Isabel Preysler’s ex-husband for four years when, suddenly, Miguel Bosé appeared in her life for a visit. According to the bullfighter’s son, Iglesias does not find out about his friend’s clandestine relationship with his partner until they have several datessomething to which the ‘Bambú’ singer does not give any importance since Julio had several relationships at the same time.
Giannina Facio with Ridley Scott – GTRES
In fact, in the book ‘Secret history of my best songs’, Bosé reveals that her song ‘Nena’ is inspired by her, but also ‘Si tú no vuelves’ because in addition to being the woman “who has loved the most in his life” he also says that she is “with the best bed” he has had: “They were the most pleasant, most harmonious years of my life… I miss you, Nena… I don’t forget you,” he writes on the pages of his second book.
It also caused the divorce of Carolina de Monaco
Phlippe Junot with Carolina de Monaco – GTRES
Before being an actress, Giannina became famous as the daughter of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, Gonzalo Facio Segresa. Although the press begins to value her as a matter of rigor after being pointed out as the cause of the divorce between Philippe Junot and Caroline of Monaco. Facio was the supposed third of her in disagreement since it transpired that the princess’s ex-husband had traveled to Turkey with her, presenting her as “her secretary” of hers.
Giannina Facio in ‘Gladiator’
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