Child prodigy, mass idol in his native country and the only footballer to win three World Cups, Pele He will always be remembered as one of the best athletes of the 20th century. Also He was an ace of love seduction, or so say at least those who had the opportunity to meet him. Based on the reality of the facts, the Brazilian is recognized as having eight children. With his first wife, Rosemeri Cholbihe had four—among them the former soccer player Edinho, who is currently serving a 33-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. The second, the religious music singer Assyria Lemosgave him two, and also he had two more out of wedlock —which by the way he refused to recognize until the judges forced him to—.
According to Malcolm Otero and Santi Gimenez in ‘More execrable than ever‘, the first creature responded to the name of Sandra Regina Machado“he was born in 1964 and his mother was the maid at Pelé’s house, although he also refused to recognize her. After a legal fight of many years, in 1996, The courts determined that Pelé was the father of that woman, who told her story in a book titled ‘The girl that O Rei did not want’. In 2006, at forty-two years old, she died of breast cancer. Pelé did not attend either her funeral or her wake, but he declared that he had prayed a lot for her and sent a wreath of flowers to her funeral. Flowers that were returned.”
Although what the footballer liked most were white and blonde women. Xuxa met the criteria to fit this profile. Apparently, Pelé met the artist in the early eighties, at a photo shoot for a magazine. She was seventeen years old and had a budding career as a model; He was forty and had already retired from football for some time. “At the end of the session, Pelé invited her to dinner,” says the aforementioned book. “She refused, saying that she was a minor and lived very far away. Then, Pelé called Xuxa’s house, spoke to her father, who demanded that his daughter go to dinner with O Rei. It should be taken into account that, so, Xuxa had already been raped by a friend of her father, a teacher at her school and a boyfriend of her grandmother.“.
A less than idyllic romance
That romance made headlines in newspapers and magazines. Even wedding bells rang. But after six years the footballer and the artist decided to go their separate ways. From that moment on they maintained a cordial relationship. It’s more, Xuxa used to speak wonderfully in public about what had been his first great love. “Pelé is a man of great sympathy and very affectionate,” he once commented. “He has such an open and affable character, that it is very difficult for him to be disliked by anyone.” Maybe she did it out of gratitude to a man who had helped her career. Maybe because of fear of facing a guy who then enjoyed a certain influence and was considered an exemplary athlete. You go to know. The point is that, In reality, Pelé behaved towards her like a real scoundrel.
The athlete himself would later say in his memoirs that, when he met her, “she was a virgin and had a half-boyfriend with whom she had fought. I don’t like virgins, so I told her that if she wanted to continue dating me, she should meet her boyfriend and solve the problem she had.. Once it was done, our courtship began.” In 2020, Xuxa published an autobiography where she confessed how bad she had it with the continuous infidelities of her then boyfriend: “When he came to see me, he had lipstick marks on his face.” mouth. He deceived me too much, to the point that his lovers were often in the same room as me, and I was the only one who didn’t know.. She was young and inexperienced, and she swallowed all her lies, naturalized her betrayal, and he told me: ‘All the women in the world want to be with Pelé.'”
After breaking up with him, Xuxa had an affair with Ayrton sennawhom she met at a party at the end of 1987. But this relationship ended because both were then dedicated body and soul to their respective professional careers: She excelled as a television presenter of children’s programs and he was experiencing his best period as a Formula 1 driver. “We didn’t have time to be together, and that is something that ends up undermining any relationship. We loved each other, but at that moment we both had to choose, and we ended up leaning towards our respective professions,” explained Xuxa, who later had his own business in Spain. television show and went on to amass a good fortune.
mixed luck
In 1996, the one known as ‘Queen of the Shorts’ began a relationship with the businessman Luciano Szafirwith whom she had her only daughter, Sasha. They left him sooner rather than later, and she later began dating the attractive Brazilian actor and presenter Junno Andrade, his last known partner, with whom he enjoys a comfortable and apparently happy life. “My life without him was like a movie without music“, the 61-year-old artist once commented.
Pelé, for his part, married for the third time in 2016, when he was 75 years old, with the Brazilian businesswoman of Japanese origin. Marcia Cibele Aoki, forty-one. Soon received a complaint from his second wife for non-payment of child support, and his grandchildren disowned him because they considered that he had abandoned them “intellectually, morally and materially.” The soccer star was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2021, and the following year he died in a hospital in Brazil, where he is still a revered figure today.
