Neither the 33-year difference, nor the 6,000 kilometers away: this is how the love between Richard Gere and Alejandra Silva triumphed

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The

of this year's Starlite gala, which takes place in Marbella on Sunday, August 14, will be the American actor

(72).

But this time the star will not be him, since he

but his wife,

39, who will go on stage to collect her

her.

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for years, even before meeting Gere,

since in 2007 she promoted the Beautiful Life foundation together with Karolina Kurkova to care for

, in 2010 she participated in the African Initiative, a foundation of the Real Madrid, to integrate

through sport and is currently a godmother and active member of the Rais Foundation that helps homeless people.

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The XIII Starlite charity gala, which has become one of the

will be headed this edition, as is tradition, by the actor

Conducted by the top

, the actor

and

will be enlivened by musicians like

and

.

In addition to Richard Gere's wife, the solidarity of other celebrities will also be recognized, such as

who has just inaugurated the foundation of her son Aless Lequio,

the model

or the soprano

are also expected to attend

, such as

or

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The Gere couple, along with their two children aged 3 and 2, will end up in

after spending a few

where they have been seen sailing on the wonderful yacht they rented.

In summers it is common to see them along the Spanish coasts, also last year they spent a few days in La Coruña, the land of Alejandra, and were even seen in a

where the actor tried to go unnoticed wearing a

.

The couple starred

as they met in 2014

a beautiful Italian spot on the Almafinata coast, where Alejandra,

a builder who was vice president of Real Madrid, ran a

. of luxury, the Villa-Treville, former mansion of the filmmaker

Richard Gere stayed there, surely without knowing that this stay was going to change his life, since both experienced

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Very much in line with the Buddhist philosophy professed by the actor, a great friend of the Dalai Lama, Alejandra revealed in 2015, when their romance came to light: "Our karma was attracted from the first moment we saw each other.

In fact, neither

nor the

that separated them cooled that feeling, since Alejandra settled a year later

owned by the actor, with whom she married in May 2018.

In February 2019,

Alexander, came into the world, and in April 2020 the second, another boy, was born.

Gere's current wife had previously been married

from whose union their eldest son

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For Richard Gere, one of the great sex symbols of cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, star of hits like

or

with Julia Roberts, among many others, this is

In 1991 he married the famous top model

whom he divorced in 1995, and in 2002 with actress

a union from which his eldest son, Homer, was born and ended in divorce in 2013.

Gere seems to have

in Alejandra, with whom he lives in his New York ranch far from the madding crowd, and with whom he confesses that he is

as he stated in the magazine

after her wedding.

"I am the happiest man in the universe. I am married to a beautiful, intelligent, funny, great mother and committed woman. Also Spanish, from the land of kings and queens, Cervantes and Buñuel,

."

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