Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Preysler separated after 8 years of relationship

She confirmed that they ended the relationship “definitely” and clarified that the reason was not third parties.

the peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the Spanish Isabella Preysler They ended their relationship “definitely” after eight years of relationship.

As reported by the Spanish magazine Hola on Wednesday, both have put an end to eight years in which they have monopolized the covers of gossip magazines.

It was also in Hola, in 2015, where Preysler (born in the Philippines, 1951) and Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936) confirmed their sentimental relationship.



Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Preysler, in a photo taken in 2018.

“Mario and I have decided to end our relationship definitively (…) I do not want to give any further statement and I thank friends and the media for helping us in this decision,” Preysler says in the publication.

Throughout these years both have starred in many moments both in social events and related to the writer’s activity.

In 2020, during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of his Nobel Prize, he recounted that his new partner had renewed in him his vocation as a writer, the best thing that – he said – had happened to him in his life.

Vargas Llosa and Preysler ended their relationship after 8 years.  Photo: EFE


Vargas Llosa and Preysler ended their relationship after 8 years. Photo: EFE

As Preysler also clarifies in Hola, the reason for this separation they have not been third partiesbut both have lost, “little by little, the illusion of the beginning”.

the beginning of romance

The relationship between Vargas Llosa, 79, and Preysler, 64, became known in June 2015. Shortly after, the author of “The City and the Dogs” confirmed his separation from his wife, Patricia, with whom he had been with for 50 years married. Preysler had been widowed a year earlier when her husband, former Spanish Economy Minister Miguel Boyer, died.

In an interview with Hola! magazine, Isabel Preysler stated at the time that “we are very sure of what we have done” and that “it is true that we have become inseparable and we don’t want to lose a minute”.

Isabel Preysler and Vargas Llosa, in 2016, shortly after starting their love relationship.  Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi


Isabel Preysler and Vargas Llosa, in 2016, shortly after starting their love relationship. Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

He also recounted what life was like together at the beginning of the relationship: he said that they spent a “wonderful” summer, in which they talked “a lot” and were “very happy”.

With information from EFE

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