The life of parties and luxury of José Castelo Branco and Lady Betty Grafstein in New York hides a side of absolute control from the millionaire’s son, Roger.
In an interview with Manuel Luís Goucha This Sunday, the 31st, José Castelo Branco confessed that he was forced to work to help with household expenses. “I live from my work. In New York I work a lot, I make a lot of appearances, I go out a lot at night. Right now I’m taking a real estate course, because – I can’t say – but there are those million-dollar programs. I’m the right person, I’ve already recorded an episode in the Hamptons, and I want to do it in New York”, he said, adding that he also returned to doing “shows”, after being successful in the 1980s with his character, Tatiana.
“I live off my work and I help Betty with my work, pay attention”, he stressed. “When people say I married Betty for the money, I say: ‘God damn it, these people don’t dream.’ Betty’s son is in absolute control of everything. Who goes to the supermarket? I’m the one who does everything. The only thing that Betty’s son pays for – because he is the one who takes care of the renovations, he is the one who manages it – is the condominium, electricity, television and Internet, and water. Period,” she clarified.
The age difference between José Castelo Branco and Betty, 34 years old, is often the subject of speculation about the reasons why the two exchanged rings in 1996. José Castelo Branco, however, maintains that he does not make money from marriage.
“There was never any use on my part. I never took advantage of anything. We got married with total separation of assetsOkay, she was over 60, but I could have demanded a prenup. Betty wanted to marry me because she fell in love with me”, said Castelo Branco in a recent interview with ‘The Sun’.
Betty only revealed her true age to her then-fiance three days before the wedding, as he himself revealed in the book ‘José Castelo Branco: Toda a Verdade’, by Ricardo Santos. Legally, the ‘count’ could not have the right to the woman’s fortune over 60 years old. “There was a lot involved. Betty is not a street corner girl. There was no prenuptial contract, but a total separation of assets agreement and that covers a lot,” he said about the marriage clauses.
The diamond heiress
Betty is heiress to a diamond empire along with her only son, Roger. When the The socialite’s first husband, Albert Grafstein, died in 1991, leaving a jewelry company in New York, the Grafstein Diamond Company, to his wife.
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“It still needs some care”, commented Daniel Nascimento on ‘Noite das Estrelas’. It is not known exactly how big Lady Betty’s fortune is, a mystery that she is also keen to maintain. “They always exaggerate everything,” she told ‘The Sun’. “But I never said anything. So people make things up.”
Betty and Albert’s only son, Roger, manages the company and did not seem to approve of his mother’s second marriage, but in recent years the businessman allowed himself to be photographed by Castelo Branco at family celebrations.
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Betty doesn’t like to say her age, but the millionaire is 95 years old and the last few years have been full of challenges for your health. The woman from Castelo Branco was hospitalized several times, has difficulty walking and even her last trip to Lisbon proved to be a health risk – Betty was hospitalized hours after arriving in Portugal.
José Castelo Branco, 61 years old, has been the woman’s main support, whether in the hospital or in her routine at home. “I wake up in the middle of the night [para Betty] go to the bathroom,” he told ‘The Sun’. “He wakes up and says, ‘Where are you? You are fine? Do you need my help?'” said Betty. “And she always needs my help”, added the socialite.
Debts and blocked property
It is not known what future José Castelo Branco plans. In Portugal, the couple has some controversies to resolve. Last year, ‘TV Guia’ revealed that Betty owes between 7,500 and 25 thousand euros to the Finance Department, having been seized three times, and is on the Banco de Portugal’s blacklist.
The businesswoman’s property in Portugal, the palace in Sintra, purchased when she was still married to her first husband, has been inaccessible to the couple since it was rented. “She’s excited to go there, but she doesn’t have permission to enter yet,” the socialite revealed exclusively to FLASH!. The mansion’s contents belong to Lady Betty, and include haute couture clothing valued at thousands of euros, works of art and even a safe to which the couple supposedly does not have access.
In this war, José Castelo Branco alleges that the tenant occupied the Sintra mansion irregularly, while the former contestant from ‘Big Brother Famosos 2’ responds that everything is within the legal framework.
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