Today Eva Grimaldi turns 63. The Roman actress has had a brilliant career but what has been the subject of discussion is her private life. Her love affair with Gabriel Garko made thousands of fans dream between the 90s and 2000s, but only recently have the two actors confessed that their relationship was all a farce to cover up Garko’s homosexuality. However, their affection and esteem have always been real and Gabriel and Eva are still deeply united today.
The meeting on the set
It’s 1995. Eva Grimaldi is an established actress in theatre and cinema and is chosen by Beppe Cino to shoot the TV miniseries “The Lady of the City”. Gabriel Garko is still unknown but gets his big break with a small part in the fiction, where Grimaldi herself plays. During the filming Eva and Gabriel discover that they have many things in common and become friends. A year later, in 1996, Garko and Grimaldi worked together again for Beppe Cino in the series “The Villa of Mysteries”. The feeling born on the set seems to lead to something deeper so much so that in the summer of 1996 the first photos of the two actors together on the streets of Rome come out. For the gossip press a new couple was born.
Between love and work
Since 1997, Eva Grimaldi and Gabriel Garko have been a steady couple in both their private and professional lives. The actor’s popularity is growing significantly and his roles on TV are multiplying. Eva is divided between cinema, TV and theatre but despite their commitments often keeping them apart, the couple appears happy and close in public, to the delight of their fans and paparazziwho often immortalize them at public events and social evenings.
The age difference
In 1999, the relationship between Gabriel and Eva ends up at the center of the gossip columns. The notable difference in age between the two actors is causing discussion: she is 38, he is 27. For the most gossipy, the actress is ready to start a family with marriage and a child to seal the love, but the young Garko’s age casts doubt on the couple’s future. While the press chatters, however, Eva and Gabriel keep their relationship safe from gossip and continue to live together, proving to be united and close-knit. Even at work Gabriel and Eva proceed as a couple and for them new roles arrive in “Villa Ada” and “Three Stars“, miniseries by Pingitore.
The beauty of women and the farewell
In 2000 Garko and Grimaldi were hired to act in the successful series “The beauty of women“. Together they play a couple: he is Roberto “Bobo” De Contris and she is Elfride De Contris. The viewers fall in love with the tormented story experienced by their characters, seeing their love story in that fiction, but the idyll between Eva and Gabriel soon comes to an end. At the end of 2001, the magazines of gossip the first rumours are starting to circulate: ““It’s over between Garko and Eva Grimaldi”The two are no longer seen together and fans understand that it is really all over between them.
The reasons for the separation
The reasons for the farewell were revealed, a few years later, by Eva Grimaldi during an interview given to the weekly magazine Moreover. “It was hard for me at the beginning to accept that we would no longer be together, I won’t deny it. We were planning a marriage and then, out of the blue, he packed his bags and left,” says the actress. What would have made the couple’s future impossible was Garko’s lack of desire for paternity: “He didn’t want a sonhe didn’t want any ties, while I really wanted a child. However, who could blame him. He was so young, while I was at the right age to settle down”. But nobody yet knows that the much talked about story that lasted almost eight years was all a set-up.
The truth about their love story
In 2020 Gabriel Garko comes out. The actor enters the house of Big Brother Vip 2020where his ex Rosalinda Cannavò is locked up, and reveals to the public that for years he pretended to be straight to hide his homosexuality. So after Rosalinda, Eva Grimaldi also tells how things really went with Garko. “Our story was created on the table fourteen years ago. There was never sex, he needed me and I always had him protected. But there is a deep love that binds us, even today, and that goes beyond the physical sphere… I would have even married him or had a child with him“, Eva confesses to Very truewhile Garko always at Very true will add: “We helped and supported each other.
I loved her so much, but not as people could imagine and probably, as a person, I could have really married her”. Today Eva Grimaldi is married to the activist Imma Battagliawhile Gabriel Garko is linked to Matia Emme.