Now Cristina Carta Villa, 59, is suing her 90-year-old “husband,” Gabriel Villa, to nullify the divorce she never knew about and keep him from selling an apartment they shared.
The two met at a friend’s house, quickly tying the knot in a New York ceremony in 1994. She left her job teaching Italian literature at Boston College to be with the lawyer and travel agent more than 30 years her senior.
“He was absolutely charming, and despite our age difference, it was love at first sight,” says Cristina Carta Villa.But all the while, Gabriel was apparently hedging his bets. Four months after the pair tied the knot, Gabriel Villa secretly arranged for a divorce in the Dominican Republic.
The wife says she never knew about, let alone consented to, a Dominican divorce, which was never registered in New York.
“It’s a fraud,” she tells The Post.The two bought a one-bedroom condo on West 55th Street; had a son, Lorenzo; and divided their time among Manhattan, Massachusetts and France.
“It was and somehow it’s still a great love,” Cristina Villa says. “Gabriel is a very charismatic man, strong, intelligent and very charming. I think we could say I was a loving and caring wife and mother.”When her husband was ill in the hospital, Cristina says, “I was always at his side.” He even made her his health-care proxy and gave her power of attorney.
But Gabriel allegedly told Dominican authorities life with his wife was “unbearable,” Cristina now alleges in court papers.
Even though the couple didn’t live in the Dominican Republic, Gabriel launched the legal dissolution there. He hired lawyers to represent each spouse and cited “incompatibility of temperaments” as the reason for the split, Cristina claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Cristina found out about it only in November when a tax bill arrived for their Manhattan home and her name wasn’t on it. She hired a lawyer to investigate, only to learn that Gabriel had tried to remove her name from the deed, using the Dominican Republic proceeding as proof she was not an owner, she charges.
The wife says in court papers she “has no recollection of [giving] any authorization to anyone to proceed with a divorce, or even thinking about divorce from the man she had just recently married.” If legal authority was given, she was either “surreptitiously impaired, drugged or misled” into giving it, claim court papers.
“I realize now that during all these years of joy and happiness, and of difficult moments we shared together, my husband lied to me and had the Dominican divorce on the back of his mind. It’s what is hurting me the most,” she says.The divorce isn’t even legal in the Dominican Republic, Cristina argues, because neither spouse appeared in the court, and the split wasn’t published in a newspaper as required under Dominican law.
Cristina believes greed is behind the divorce duplicity.
Gabriel is “using an illegal and fraudulent divorce . . . to rob her,” Cristina charges.
She believes her husband wants to sell the apartment to his adult daughter, Marina Villa, who lives in Rome. One-bedroom condos in the Midtown building sell for roughly $1.4 million, records show.
NY Post
71 comments:
Mehn the man is wicked
PEPSI ADDICT
Noted
maybe there's a reason 4 his action
This is man greedy, what nonsense...
Life! Life! Na wa oooo
Hmmm
LINDA NOTIFY DBANJ
You on your own woman
Let's go Linda
lol, sharp man
ppl get wahala for this life.......
Don~ jazzycrush
Haba oga, if she was after money sef she would have wanted to divorce you after like one or two years. Old greedy man,lol. The man doesn't believe true love exists.
Say what! I never hear dis kind one before. Linda take note!
Nna eh! This man is wicked o! Imagine living with sm1 αи∂ u won't have an idea u'v been divorced? Na wa o
#It WiLL oNLy gEt beTTer
#iT MuSt eNd IN pRAisE
419 is everywhere i guess.
Chai money ish
This is crazy mehn.imagine the deceit.years of lies
Hahahahahaha d man head dey deir....him no watsup
The man is mean.
Lols! Some men try to outsmart themselves.
Can u imagine that despite his old age.
#Hajia Mufliat
Can you imagine
Some men are wicked sha ...20 whole years thrown into trash just like that, when no be LAWMA
What did u expect wen u marry a man 30yrs older than u...but the old man is greedy sha
Observed, sharp bad guys, with all humility and honesty I have feelings for Linda Ikeji and would sincerely wish to meet her in person this year as part of my resolution.
This old man mean sha
Wicked man 👨
Absolutely nonsense the man need to be flogged..Linda observe carefully
Beware of fraudulent people, wicked man
Sharp man cos chics ain't loyal......@Bia Bia 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Greeduy n stupid ass man
Greeduy n stupid ass man
End time stories. * it's well*
That was a cruel act by the man
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
That man na very very wicked man. D bible says,d heart of man is wicked,who can know it.
Greedy old man.
Hmmmm! The heart of men
Ok,de man na 419 ooo.
#FINEST
Too bad of him . obong Abasi is fully involved
Wicked stingy old man..
I will sue and take everything away from u, making u face ur worst fears of penniless..
Lady with class#
Some men and Evil. TUEH
Smart man. Ladies be wise. Engr Emy
MEN, THEY DON'T THINK TWICE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING. SO WICKED AT HEART
Such is lyf. Linda observe!
he should take his monry to his grave. foolish old man
Greedy n wicked man.
Trust No One.
this man is an example of a wicked man...
Could he be linked with the igbo clan?
Smart man
Why marry her in the first place? Dumb story.
Lobatan
BAD MAN...
They know where they met.
Ahhhhh eleyi gidi gan o. (This is very tough)
Son of a viper, why marry a lady u never trust a second in the first place.. some people's heart are sooo dark eh.
I didn't type this fa' it just popped out...
That's not cool at all. Ahan. Why now?
Stupid and greedy man
#*karlishah*
Some people's heart can be soooo dark eh?
This is worse than cheating I tell but biko what type of divorce is this?
I didn't type this fa' it just popped out...
Hmm, wonder shall never cease. If he felt she was a gold digger, why didn't he leave her soon enough when they got married? All these years, putting her hopes up but to leave her with nothing at the end. WICKED OLD MAN!!!
Heart of men
Hmmmm this old man is wicked
Hmm
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Direct from Delsu.
This is really strange.. Who should we believe.
Linda I hv arrived, post my comment.
makes me sick that some people here are trying to justify his actions, if he had his reason for the secret divorce 4 months into their marriage he shouldn't have stay with her for 20 years then he's just a greedy man and mean spirited, I'm sure a lot of you ladies will visit babalawo to punish such acts if you were the victim
Munachi read d story well abeg.. the man is too be thief. Why divorcing ur wife illegally.. all frauds bcos u want to sell ur property??? No matter the reason the wife should know about it.
Enter your comment...nawa. O
This is really strange.. Who should we believe.
This guy is evil
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seen......johnkoledoye@gmail.com
wicked man
Guy u nust be a mumu o. U hear one side of story u come dey judge. Sio
LOL THIS MAN IS SHINA RAMBO. HOW DID HE GET THE WOMAN'S SIGNATURE ON THE DIVORCE PAPERS. MEHNNNN DIS GUY NA BAEDT GUY SHA
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