Carmen Cervera

Carmen Cervera (actually María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera Fernández ), also known as Tita Cervera, Baroness von Thyssen- Bornemisza or Baroness Thyssen -Bornemisza ( born April 23, 1943 in Sitges as Cervera Fernández ), is a Spanish art collector, as previously model was known.

Life

The daughter of a Catalan father and a mother of Navarre, the divorced five years after her birth, attended private schools in Barcelona and London and in Switzerland. In England she had an affair with the rock singer Johnny Hallyday. Funded by her mother, she won the Miss España 1961, after it had already become Miss Cataluña, and began a career as a model after the magazine La Vanguardia had published a widely acclaimed interview with her. Then, in the competition for the Miss Universe in Hollywood, where she met Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe. With Al Pacino is said to have had an affair in the seventies. In the eighties and nineties they had some little significant film appearances. On 1 October 2008, she received a star on the Paseo de la Fama in Puerto Banús, the Spanish Walk of Fame. In addition to her dazzling private life and their role in the international jet set that provides up today for attention in the tabloids, she has made a name for himself as an art collector.

Commitment to the art scene

By her third husband, Baron Thyssen, Carmen came into contact with the international art scene. Their commitment it came in 1986 to the first exhibition of works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid and the following year to a showcase in the Academia de San Fernando. Under their influence Thyssen finally decided to change his entire art collection to Spain; In 1992, the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza was opened in Madrid, Thyssen eventually sold the bulk of his art collection to the Spanish State. Inheritance disputes between Carmen and the Thyssen's children from previous marriages made ​​for a lengthy and costly process in Bermuda, which took place shortly before her husband's death in 2002, by comparison to an end.

In 2006 she publicly criticized the anti-environmental in their view reconstruction plans of the Madrid government for the Paseo del Prado, although the redesign would have benefited from even the Thyssen Museum. Finally, there was also an amicable settlement. Carmen Cervera himself has a collection compiled: the Colección Carmen Thyssen- Bornemisza, which can also be seen publicly in Madrid, but so far as loan. It includes paintings from the 17th century to modern times, their focus is on the Spanish painting of the 19th century, especially the local customs.

Tax evasion

Since Spain levies a property tax on works of art, Cervera would have to pay about 13.5 million euros in taxes annually according to a report in the newspaper " El Confidential". Documents published in April 2013 offshore leaks intended to show that Cervera, this wealth tax deal about the company Nautilus Trustees Limited in the tax haven Cook Islands, owned by it should be according to the report of the " El Confidential".

Marriages and descendants

Carmen Cervera was married three times:

In 1980 their only biological son Borja was born. His biological father is considered unknown, Thyssen adopted him later. In 2007, she adopted two twin sisters from the U.S..