The cover of the Spanish singer Martha Sanchez for Interview It is one of the most well-known and controversial of all those carried out by the magazine, which closed definitively in 2018.
In 1991, the artist posed naked for the cover of the magazine. “It was the most complicated cover“Miguel Ángel Gordillo, deputy director for 29 years of Interview, in an interview with RAC1. “Some photos were stolen and she sent a friend to negotiate the cover in Interview down“he added.
Before the nude photo shoot, the magazine released compromising images of the singer. This is what photographer Lalo Álvarez told in 2023 in laSexta Xplica: “Marta Sánchez had some photos taken in the Virgin Islands with a black bassist. They caught her undressing, and Interview He offered to pay her and have her pose“.
As published Europe Press Chance in 2015, The singer did not want those images to come to light. For this reason, he spoke to a friend of his to take charge of negotiating with the magazine. The objective was to have the photographs removed in exchange for a financial amount.
Once Marta Sánchez returned from her trip, she personally negotiated with Interview the pose that was offered to him for 40 million pesetas (about 240,000 euros), according to what she herself revealed.
When the photo shoot took place, the magazine sent the singer said amount. less the amount of money negotiated for the removal of the compromised images that they took from him in the Virgin Islands.
Therefore, according to Europe Press Chanceeverything was a business agreed between both parties, although Marta Sánchez has always defended that it was an blackmail.
Trial for non-payment that the singer loses
After the magazine was published, Marta Sánchez sued Interview for non-payment. This is how former deputy director Gordillo tells it: “he collected a total of 35 million pesetas. 20 with a check with his withholdings and 15 million in black.”
And he explains what happened during the trial: “I explained the whole story before the judge and we win on the street. The same lawyers who counted the 15 million bills one by one filed the lawsuit. Then, as we were still in the open period at the Treasury, we entered the personal income tax of those 15 million in his name.”
The magazine, condemned for leaking an image
Although Marta Sánchez lost the trial due to non-payment, she did get the Supreme Court will condemn Ediciones Zeta (to which it belonged Interview) in 2010.
This happened because it was shown that the magazine had leaked an image of the singer naked to the newspaper Clear, which breached the signed contract. Thus, Interview was forced to compensate Sánchez with 300,500 euros.
Marta Sánchez’s latest statements about ‘Interviú’
Last February of this year, the singer spoke about her cover in Interview on her friend Vicky Martín’s podcast. In this way, she showed her regret for the decisions she made at that time: “I would not go through things again that I went through because of fear, imposition and pressure. For example, One of the things that hurt me the most in my life was posing naked in the Interview“, he acknowledged.
And he added: “I still can’t forgive myself for what I made my parents suffer.. “It wouldn’t happen for not being me, for not being faithful to me, although sometimes I have been unfaithful and I no longer want that in my life.”
