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'Nepo baby': Said of the children of successful adults who have benefited from nepotism in industries such as entertainment or adjacent fields such as fashion and the media.

Not to be confused with

bootstrappers

, the self-made, or the

naturally talented

nobodies .

For their part, the nepo babies start with

a crucial advantage, the connections of their parents

, although many of them later complain - first world problems, mind you - that their kinship is a burden when it comes to carving out their own name.

We give you some examples:

Lilly Deep, Maya Hawke, Jaden Smith or Zoë Kravitz

.

This beyond borders.

But in Spain there are also:

Candela Serrat, Miguel Bernardeau, Elena Furiase, Rocío Crusset

... As you can see, some of them change their last names to protest, although in the end everyone knows who their family is.

One of the latest

nepo babies

to stand out is the 35-year-old stepdaughter of the Catalan soccer player Cesc Fábregas.

She is Maria Taktouk, 23, eldest daughter of her wife,

Lebanese model Daniella Semaan

, with her first husband, businessman Elie Taktouk.

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María is a sought-after influencer with more than

850,000 followers on Instagram

who, apart from being a beauty who almost always poses scantily clad on her social networks, also sings ideally.

Dido and Rihanna's versions of her are hugely popular on her YouTube channel, where she unleashes her musical gift on a daily basis.

It wouldn't be surprising if they soon proposed a fashion campaign for a world-renowned firm (she shares an aesthetic with wags like her mother or Georgina Rodríguez, one of her followers) or even the recording of an album.

Cesc Fábregas with his wife, Daniella Semaan and her two children, Maria and Joseph.GTRES

Since her parents' separation, María Taktouk has lived with her mother, Daniella Semaan (47), and her stepfather Cesc Fábregas (35), who met in London in a Japanese restaurant in 2011 while he was playing for

Arsenal

.

Years before he had been a great Barça star and at that time he had a girlfriend.

For her part, Daniella was also married for 13 years to her lifelong boyfriend from Lebanon, a wealthy real estate businessman with whom she went to live in Great Britain, and was the mother of two children, Maria and Joseph, who today He is 19 years old and plays for the Swiss football club Chiasso.

The crush was so strong that they both left their respective partners to start a life together that withstood her complicated divorce from her first husband.

What's more, the romance was so intense -and it still is-, that

they had three more children (Lia, Capri and Leonardo, aged 10, 8 and 6)

and got married in 2018. A baroque wedding, very much in the style of the Lebanese Daniella, held at the same London hotel where Meghan Markle held her bachelorette party, Cliveden House.

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Daniella's separation process with

her ex, Elie Taktouk

, was tough.

He ended up crying in the dock in 2020 as the court sentenced him to seven months in prison.

The tycoon ignored the court orders imposed after the dissolution of his marriage and, according to

The Sun

, obstructed the investigation into his assets, hid the status of his bank accounts and violated the order not to travel, since he bought plane tickets, something which he was forbidden to do.

However, to everyone's surprise, the judge did not impose any fine, ruling that Taktouk was broke after losing his old family mansion in Belgravia - worth 5.5 million pounds - which Cesc Fabregas ended up buying.

Disgusted, Taktouk went so far as to say to the British press: "

Fàbregas stole my wife when we were trying to have another baby

", among other nice things.

To this day, Elie Taktouk is out of the life of Daniella Semaan and the popular soccer player and they live in Como (Italy), where he plays, with his children.

María Taktouk gets along great with her stepfather, with whom she has been only 12 years old, since Daniella Semaan is 12 years older than Cesc Fábregas.

She lives in Italy but she is a polyglot young lady who could live anywhere in the world.

She shares a great guy with her mother

, whose sister she seems to be, and also friends, like Antonella Rocuzzo, Messi's wife.

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