Reyes Monforte (49) has reappeared thanks to his latest professional challenge. The one who was the last partner of Pepe Sancho, who died on March 3, 2013 as a result of a lung cancerhas presented his latest novel, The cursed countess, a historical account that chronicles the intrigues surrounding Maria Tarnowska. On the occasion of the promotion of this issue, she has been sincere and has made an at least striking reflection on life. «Look, I have learned that The guilty are not so guilty and the innocent are not always so innocent.», he indicated in an interview published on social networks.
Words that come seven months after the death of María Jiménez, who was also the actor’s partner. And the love story between the artist and the performer It was marked by comings and goings and a stormy marriage. Maria and Pepe They met in a restaurant in Madrid in 1978.. She was already a famous singer and he was successful with Curro Jimenez and his was a real crush. They married on July 1, 1980 just two years after meeting each other and as the singer said in the documentary Blood ties from TVE. That day they already had one of their biggest arguments. «That day he created a scandal in me, that I wanted to separate from him that same day. Psychologically, it drove me crazy that day,” declared María. However, they continued together and three years later, In 1983, Alejandro was born, the only child the couple had in common.
The singer María Jiménez and the actor Pepe Sancho. / Gtres
A year after the birth of the little one, the marriage suffered its first breakup. Although they were difficult times, they reunited their paths after the loss of Rocío, the artist’s daughter, who lost her life in a tragic traffic accident. Pepe Sancho became a great support for her. They decided to get married second timein Costa Rica, on February 27, 1987. The couple once again said ‘yes, I want’ third time in Nepal. A wedding that María Jiménez herself described as «a deception».
At that time, the interpreter of It’s over She lived in the background, away from the world of entertainment (which she loved so much) and her husband was her. “cornering and nullifying”, As María recognized in her memoirs, Shut up, scoundrel. «That man abused me physically and psychologically. He beat me up and told me: let’s get married again. And like a fool, after two jokes, I believed him,” he also stated in the format of the public entity.
His last wife: Reyes Monforte
Completely opposite testimony the one of Reyes Monforte, Pepe Sancho’s last partner. His professional career has been marked by his work in radio, where for fifteen years he has directed and presented different programs on different stations, among which Onda Cero and Punto Radio stand out. The journalist was by her husband’s side until the end of her life, when he died a decade ago. They always gave a great image.
Reyes Monforte and Pepe Sancho posing at an event. / Gtres
Reyes Monforte She has always relegated everything related to her private sphere to the background, but that did not prevent her from speaking, discreetly, about her love story with Sancho. She married “the love of her life,” as she called it, in 2006. “He was a human being. funny, cultured, intelligent, with whom you laughed a lot. Nothing to do with those who knew him only through his appearances on gossip programs. He boasted of having a very good relationship with the serious press. Proof of this is that Raúl del Pozo presented his book to her and the best man at our wedding was Luis del Olmo,” said the author of The memory of lavender in an interview with Rosa Villacastín, in May 2018.
It was in that same intervention where he told how their relationship had been born: «In the Merida theaterin August 2003. Pepe was doing Medea and I was with some friends in Portugal and we went to see him. I don’t know if it was the stage, the night, Pepe’s voice, but the crush was mutual. In my diary I noted that he had met the love of my life.