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After buying land that reached the beach next to Santa Margarita, the house that gave rise to Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe's Marbella Club, the actors Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer built Villa Catalina in 1962. Their neighbors on both sides were Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and the Count of Meran. The Ferrer-Hepburn couple sought tranquility after the successes of 'War and Peace' (1956) and 'Breakfast with Diamonds' (1961).

Like Deborah Kerr and Peter Viertel , who lived in Río Real from 1965 until her death. "They were always at home for lunch or dinner or they went to the bullfights with my parents," says Sean, the only son of Audrey and Mel. At last, the demiurge prince had managed to capture the international jet set to transform that fishing village into an oasis of luxury. But that peace began to be altered in the late 1970s with the appearance of "the four musketeers", as Los Choris used to be called .

Like the characters in Alexander Dumas' novel, the group perpetrated their own adventures filled with alcohol, music, lust, and debauchery. Yeyo Llagostera (son of Rogelio Llagostera, founding doctor of the Liade SA laboratories that commercialized Strepsils and Reflex) and Luis Ortiz (son of Francisco Ortiz, TVE censor) founded this fun and rogue team that Antonio Arribas (film specialist) joined. ) and Jorge Morán (son of Manolo Morán, actor of 'Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall').

"We were some fucking great guys, fucking great," admits LOC Luis Ortiz, who doesn't feel like talking because he's on the break from a game of ping pong with Gunilla von Bismarck: "He's beating me, you can't imagine how he plays " At that time he confirms that they no longer live in Villa Sagitario, the mega mansion that the queen without a throne of Marbella decided to auction for 50 million euros, "but we are still in Istán".

"What we created 50 years ago are things you see in the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. It was a wonderful time with the ex-empress Soraya and Uncle Jaime [De Mora y Aragón]. That was the seed of all the marbellas that came later. It was a classy place, clean and important people felt protected, until Gil brought the trash. "

The Choris were businessmen as atypical as patrons of the nightly revelry. And all on account of Yeyo, who was said to have inherited about 45 million from his father. Their parties are part of the legend of the coated paper. His first business was the beach club Rodeo Beach , where the young billionaire danced for the first time with Soraya, 'the princess with sad eyes' after the Shah's rejection; They opened the PJ restaurant, where the former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista shoved a two-kilo lobster, dying shortly afterwards at his home; Cristina Onassis danced samba with Yeyo, but normally she scattered her melancholy on the beach; Jaime de Mora y Aragón always played the piano faithful to his 'dandiano look' with a monocle, 'blazer' and a carnation blowout; Khashoggi organized parties with beluga caviar in gold cans and dresses topped with diamonds and "Don Juan came to Menchu , where he danced and told jokes", Ortiz points out.

While Antonio Arribas stole the heart of Linda Christian -ex of Tyrone Power and mother of Romina- , Carmina Ordóñez and Lolita, Yeyo fell in love with Taryn -sister of Romina-, with the millionaire Cristina Macaya and with Sandra Gamazo, niece of Alfonso from Hohenlohe. For 20 years, her heartbeats have belonged to public relations Karine Maeck. Luis Ortiz conquered Gunilla, great-granddaughter of the iron chancellor, architect of the reunification of Germany.

For this quartet there were no limits, "we did not harm anyone," says Luis. They drank it all and melted it even more. Come on, the millions have evaporated. "Some Germans want to make a movie of our history," says Llagostera, who resurfaced after going bankrupt and spending four years in Alhaurín prison, where Julián Muñoz , former mayor of Marbella and love of Isabel Pantoja , would also be confined .

"It is already 50 years since the cause", Luis slides intelligibly while recalling the best party they organized: "It was 'American Graffitti', at Manolo González's house. The host." It lasted three days and 2,000 guests attended. "We invented futsal and also paddle with Alfonso de Hohenlohe" , ditch before the rematch to the Pimp against Gunilla, whose golden hair Aristotle Onassis used to caress when he was a child.

Gunilla and Luis: One son and a thousand sprees in common

The story of Gunilla von Bismarck and Luis Ortiz would give for an encyclopedia. Iconic couple of the Marbella night, the great-granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck and the son of Francisco Ortiz, a Franco censor of TVE, married in 1978 at the castle of Friedrichsruh, property of the dynasty in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). Her only son, Francisco, one of the founders of the Tuenti social network, is married to the lawyer Elisabet Dutú, who have made the couple grandparents on two occasions. They are now undergoing quarantine in Istán (Marbella).

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