Famous model married to the designer lived a forbidden passion with Roberto Carlos

Who is Roberto Carlos’ new girlfriend? The question echoes in television newsrooms and on social media. Everyone wants to find out. The “King” signals an intention to keep the relationship private to avoid invasion of privacy.

While investigating the identity of the woman who ignited the passion in the heart of Brazil’s most romantic singer, 24 years after the death of his third wife, Maria Rita (cancer victim at 39), the TV room recalls one of the artist’s greatest love stories.

Roberto Carlos had a secret love affair with model Maria Stella Splendore, considered the first Brazilian supermodel. At the time she was married to the legendary stylist Dener, rival of Clodovil.

“I met Roberto Carlos backstage at the Hebe Camargo show, on Record. I was pregnant with my first child and he said I was beautiful”, Maria Stella told journalist Lia Lehr years ago in an interview for the magazine ‘Crescer’.

“Some time later, he came to my house for dinner and Dener asked me to take him to see the baby. When I showed him my son, he went blank, we were silent for a second, but he seemed like forever. Our eyes met and something strong started there”.

The singer was 25 years old and single. “One day Dener was traveling, Roberto sent the driver to pick me up and I went to his house. It was our first date. I was a girl and he was the second man in my life. I even mentioned it to him when we got together.

Soon after, the model found herself pregnant. “It was a dilemma for me, because I had been with Roberto and Dener at the same time,” she told the masthead. In crisis with Dener, Maria Splendore said her husband preferred her discretion. «You learned about my case thanks to a gossipy friend who went to say that I had been to Roberto’s house. But he never said anything.’

Maria Leopoldina was born and raised by Dener without any dispute. The model and the singer are separated. After 12 years, when the designer died, she told the girl about the possibility that Roberto Carlos was her father. The singer met her.

In the book ‘Sri Splendore – Uma História de Vida’ and in conversations with the press, Maria Stella said that she never thought of requesting a DNA test. The doubt that emerged as gossip at the time remains more than 50 years later. “It’s a closed matter,” she decreed.

Considered one of the most beautiful and elegant women in the country, Maria Stella Splendore has even made soap operas. Over time you have withdrawn from high society and the world of fashion. You have lived abroad for 20 years. Since the early 80’s you have begun a search for spirituality.

He has lived since 2004 in a Hare Krishna community in Fazenda Nova Gokula, in the hinterland of São Paulo. He engages in a routine of self-knowledge and contemplation of life. He shares some of his knowledge about him and his routine on YouTube channel “Splendor Talk Show”.

A sad coincidence unites Maria Stella and Roberto Carlos. Both have experienced the worst pain in the world: the loss of a child. The former model’s eldest son, Frederico, died in 1993. The singer buried his devoted daughter Ana Paula Rossi in 2011, and ten years later, his son Dudu Braga.

Source: Terra