Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are divorcing after nearly six years of marriage, the couple announced on Thursday.
“For some time we have been considering changing our relationship and after careful consideration we have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children,” the couple wrote in an Instagram post, which was written in Spanish Martin’s profile was shared in English on Yosef’s.
Martin’s advertising team confirmed the accuracy of the post to The Associated Press. Further details were not disclosed. People Magazine first reported the news.
Martin, singer of Spanish and English language hits like “Livin’ la Vida Loca”, “She Bangs”, “La copa de la vida” and “Vente pa’ ca”, has won two Grammys and four Latin Grammys and traded too. Yosef is a Swedish artist of Syrian origin.
“Our greatest wish now is to continue to have a healthy family dynamic and a relationship based on our true friendship as we continue raising our children together,” Martin and Yosef wrote in the statement. “We are united in moving forward in this new chapter of our lives.”
Martin, 51, and Yosef, 38, wed in late 2017. At the time, the Puerto Rican singer was already a father to twins Matteo and Valentino, who will turn 15 in August and were born to surrogate mothers. Yosef and Martin had two more children together: Lucia, now 4, and run, now 3.
last september, Martin sued his nephew The nephew withdrew his testimony because of the consequences of the allegations of sexual abuse. Arguing that the claims cost him millions of dollars in lost income, Martin said he was “stalked, besieged, harassed, stalked and blackmailed” by his “troubled” nephew for economic reasons. The AP confirmed that days later The nephew filed a complaint of sexual assault. Martin declined to comment at the time.
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