Diamond heiress, 96, accuses art dealer husband, 61, of domestic abuse

Younger than my dad and older than my grandma. Ewwww

Wasn't he married to Liza?

Her Instagram is interesting

Wasn't the one on the left in 4 Non Blondes?

If you missed the recent Vanity Fair article about this sad spectacle, here's a paywall-free link.

He’s lovely

r5 What a bizarre story. It sounds like a 21st century Pygmalion or something. Xer invented an entire aristocratic background, and diamond fortune for an elderly women with a rent controlled upper east side apartment. There must be a mountain of debt hidden somewhere in all that.

[quote] a Kardashian-level star in Portugal

Also that's the most dammed with faint praise description I've ever read.

What awful people, the lot of them.

There must be tons of people like this, living in rent-controlled apartments.

I have a cousin who married a REALLY old dude, for this reason, exactly.

When he dies, and he already may have, she gets to keep that fabulous apartment.

I’m not clear whether or not he owns it or rents it, but I’m pretty sure she isn’t in it for love.

I don’t stay in touch with her, & it’s one of the reasons why I don’t. I don’t begrudge her the apartment, however, it’s clear she uses people to get whatever she wants.

Well, what did that bitch do to deserve it? Clearly she did something.

He got tired of waiting.

A hybrid of Boy George and Jocelyn Wildenstein is the hero we didn't know we needed.

This feels like how a child would describe a soap opera.

Is that the hubby on the left?

R16. You think they are like Hemingway and wife and cross-dressing for kicks?

R17 Iono lol. I just know this thread popped up only in feed and the first couple viewings I thought it was some aging female model a la Janice Dickinson. Then I realized that must be him.

Seems like the older lady had a lot of old Chanel and some jewels (from the time she was married to the diamond dealer). The husband seemed like he enjoyed playing dress-up with all her stuff.

R4 That's hilarious 😂. With that hat on, he does resemble Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes (Sara Gilbert's ex wife). His name is José Castelo Branco and was married to another before. He has an adult child and a granddaughter. Very strange person.

Am I imagining it, or did we already have a thread on these two?

This guy is just the flip side of that other nut who tried to surgery his way into being a Ken doll.

Now he's a full on drag queen blow up doll.

This Jose is heading the same way but he's even crazier, seems homicidal and is dead - ass broke.

They're both horrid and this will end with a thud.

The old lady's got cash - she should throw out whomever and get someone who does what see wants. Also, hire a nice bodyguard/nurse who will send the other bitch down the stairs if she tries to get tricky.

The article said she does NOT have cash.

What weirdness. They made up royal titles, and pretend to be very wealthy. I read the article R5 posted, and it said they don't have money. They must have money to get fillers and buy expensive luggage, and travel where they want to. They've been together a long time, and she just can't accept her age now and the fact that she doesn't want to do all the things they used to do. It sounds like their lives together were quite an adventure. I hope she really didn't abuse her.

R22 He most likely is if he said (Vanity Fair article) he fantasized about them dying together and having an extravagant double funeral with them both laid out in haute couture.

R25 They're probably whoring themselves out on the street corners.

Diamonds Are A Gay's Best Friend.

I have followed their drama on TikTok. Jose has not been able to leave his country for some time because of a crime or something. He was popular on a reality show there, can't remember the country. Anyway Betty was in the hospital for a long time. I assume she's gonna die any day because she can't even keep her head up when they are doing their live tiktoks.

[quote]Wasn't the one on the left in 4 Non Blondes?

Yes. Yes she was.

[quote]Am I imagining it, or did we already have a thread on these two?

Yes we have…

There was also this recent thread.

They are grifters. Whatever money there was is gone, and he’s actually the one earning it now with media and events appearances, where they freeload like crazy. They had a christening of his granddaughter and they managed to be sponsored and fully paid.

The article is not clear if he did push her down the stairs. The article made me rethink their relationship and that she was very complicit in what she was getting, no just an explored older woman.

I loved the part where they made the Vanity Fair journalist help them with their packing.

It's all very bizarre. The people, the lifestyle, the drama, the insanity - everything. I looked through her Instagram and it's bizarre.

If you look up "useless freaks' in the dictionary, the OP photo should be there.

He looks like what you'd get if you ordered Bianca Jagger off of Wish.

Vampires live among us.

I saw these two in passing about 8 years ago in an airport. They were quite a spectacle and the effect was no better for the advantage of a few years more 'youth.'