“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children,” the ex-couple told PEOPLE in a statement.
After six years of marriage, Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef divorce.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have been through as a couple for all these wonderful years,” the Puerto Rican superstar and Syrian-Swedish entertainer said. to PEOPLE in a joint statement.
“Our greatest desire now is to continue to have a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centered on peace and friendship to continue the common education of our children, preserving the respect and love that we have for one another. each other,” continues the ex-couple, who share two children: daughter Lucia, born in 2018, and son Renn, born in 2019. (Martin previously welcomed twins Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008, whom he will continue to raise as a single parent.)
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Martin, 51, and Yosef, 38, first connected on Instagram in 2015 and started dating six months later after first meeting in person in London. They made their romance official on the red carpet at the 2016 amFAR Inspiration Gala and announced their engagement the same year before getting married in 2018.
The “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer shared the news of their union during an interview with E ! News in January 2018. “I’m a husband, but we’re having a big party in a few months,” he told the outlet. “We exchanged our vows, and we swore [sic] everything, and we signed all the papers that we had to sign, prenups and everything.”
The two men, who each speak several languages, expressed their determination to pass on their linguistic flexibility to their four children.
“We speak Spanish at home, but they also speak English and French,” Martin explained during a 2013 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, noting that her twin sons were enrolled in a French school. “I want them exposed to everything.”
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Yosef said he also teaches Arabic to their two youngest children. “The way I raise my babies is that I focus on Arabic rather than English or Swedish,” he said. My Kali. “I taught my daughter to count to 10 in Arabic and she’s only 2, which is wonderful.”
An accomplished painter and conceptual artist, Yosef has won awards including the Threadneedle Prize for exhibiting artists in London and the Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art in London, both in 2013, by vogue saudi. In 2020 he won the Archiproducts Design Award for a series of rugs he designed inspired by his work with tape. He opened a new studio in LA earlier this year.
Martin is set to star in the main cast of Apple TV+’s upcoming period comedy Royal Palm alongside Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney and Carol Burnett. Later this year, he will embark on The Trilogy Tour across North America with co-headliners Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias.
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