Her name jumped into the limelight after Juan Carlos fell during an elephant hunt in Botswana in 2012. In that same year, the monarch transferred almost 65 million euros to an account in the name of the alleged lover.
Spanish emeritus king Juan Carlos left Spain in the midst of an investigation into an alleged $ 100 million commission he received from the Saudis and passed through tax havens until he came, in part, to the account of his alleged lover, the German businesswoman Corinna Larsen. Who is the woman who is calling into question the monarchy?
Corinna Larsen met Juan Carlos in 2004, during a hunt in La Garganta (owned by the Duke of Westminster in Ciudad Real), according to El País. She then used her married name, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, although being separated from her second husband, the German prince Casimir (the first husband was the British businessman Philip Adkins). She would only lose her nickname and princess title when she remarried, in 2019, to a 28-year-old model.
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