Guest of “The Tonight Show”, Richard Gere confirmed his imminent departure for Madrid, Spain, where he will settle with his wife and their two children. The 75-year-old actor plans to be there for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Under the sun. Richard Gere is preparing to leave the United States with his wife and children to settle in Madrid, Spain. News confirmed by the 75-year-old actor on the set of “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” last night, where he was invited to talk about his current affairs or his duet with Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman “.
Married to Alejandra Silva since 2018 after they met in Italy four years earlier, Richard Gere explained that he wanted to allow his wife to reconnect with her family. “My wife is Spanish, and she gave me seven years here. So we are going to spend a few years in Madrid with his family. Our children are bilingual, so they will flourish there,” he said.
“My wife grew up in a big Spanish family, a little bit Italian, and her grandmother was kind of the glue that held it all together,” he added. “Grandma passed away about two years ago, so I can see my wife taking her place in this extended family. She is already planning to receive 35 people for Sunday lunch,” he continues.
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“For Alejandra, it will be wonderful to be closer to her family, her lifelong friends and her culture. She was very generous in giving me six years to live in my world, so it is only fair that I give her at least six more years to live in hers,” he had already announced to the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair in last April.
Richard Gere and Alejandra Silva form a blended family, with their two children, Alexander and James, aged 5 and 4 respectively. She is also the mother of an 11-year-old boy, Albert, born from her previous relationship with Goving Friedland. Richard Gere is the father of Homer, the son he had with his second wife, Carey Lowell, in 2000.
The star of the film “Pretty Woman is one of those celebrities who decided to leave the United States after the election of Donald Trump. In October, he sold his Connecticut home for $10.7 million. Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have reportedly put their Californian mansion up for sale, and have already moved to the United Kingdom. Sharon Stone, Cher and Barbara Streisand also threatened to leave the United States after the results of the American presidential election.
