Beatriz Miranda
Updated Saturday, March 2, 2024-18:30
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It was to be expected that if a man of Judge Santiago Pedraz
's age
, who has already turned
65
, was recently encouraged by
a new fatherhood (his fourth)
, he was also going to do so with another wedding, this time his third.
He has passed through
the altar
with his partner of the last two years, the lawyer Elena Hormigos.
To be exact, they went to a notary office on Paseo de la Castellana last Monday, February 19, in front of three close friends, journalist Beatriz Cortázar announced in the program
Y Ahora Sonsoles
.
No one from their respective families attended
, except for Jacobito, the three-month-old baby they have in common.
Jacobito is the magistrate's fourth son.
He has two elders, Santiago and Alejandro, from his first wife, Marisa Martín, in fact
one of them has already made him a grandfather
.
And he also has another teenage boy from his second marriage to journalist Paula Arenas.
For Hormigos, for his part, 37 years old, it is his second wedding but his first child.
The ceremony was held quickly, it was just a mere formality, which did not prevent the bride and groom and their witnesses from going to eat later at
a nearby notary restaurant
.
They have not yet planned to have a later party as a reboda with more friends like Garzón and Lola Delgado, but everything will work out.
Pedraz, a well-known judge of the National Court who has investigated famous
cases of money laundering, terrorism and drug trafficking
, jumped into coated paper years ago, when he began to appear at the
Vanity Fair
magazine parties .
He began attending with his second wife, Paula Arenas, but after divorcing her he went accompanied by his next girlfriend,
the lawyer Sylvia Córdoba
, later known for defending the robbery at the Atrio restaurant.
He bought a house with Sylvia and got engaged,
but they broke up abruptly
, she said after being very upset, stating that the judge had left her overnight by email.
Córdoba pointed out Esther Doña as the cause of their separation.
Doña and the magistrate knew each other from before, from those
Vanity Fair
parties that she attended with her then husband, the Marquis of Griñón.
They also met at dinners at the home of the Conde Pumpido couple, friends of both.
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The ex of Santiago Pedraz found out through the networks about the judge's romance with Esther Doña: "We were very well or so I thought"
Once Griñón died from Covid in 2020, Esther Doña and Santiago Pedraz began their relationship.
They narrated their love story chapter by chapter
in the magazine
¡Hola!
and they posed together in
photocalls
from party to party.
They also traveled to Ibiza and sailed on the yachts of wealthy friends.
Doña always
had a drink with Pedraz and his colleagues
from the Court on Fridays at a bar on Almagro Street.
She moved there with her dog and everything seemed to be going smoothly between them.
Two years ago, they even announced their wedding in their leading magazine, but that ended up being a scandal because
the news was published
days after breaking off their engagement and Esther Doña did not call the magazine to stop the report as she requested. his already ex.
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Doña later defended herself by saying that she did not consider herself abandoned by Pedraz, whom she accused of having sent her away without any explanation via WhatsApp.
He barely commented on the matter, citing irreconcilable reasons.
It was his entourage who revealed
questionable behavior on Doña's part
during the relationship that led him to cut things off.
Pedraz, in the middle of the mess, took refuge in Almería at the house of his good friend Gómez Bermúdez.
By the way, this friendship is in question lately, since the magistrate renounced investigating the case of kidnapping and torture of the son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea Obiang, whose lawyer is precisely his friend Bermúdez,
ceding jurisdiction to Equatorial Guinea
.
Decision that was revoked by the National Court, which has ordered the opening of the summary.