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Who is Robinho’s wife Vivian Guglielmetti and how many children do they have?
Plus, where is the former footballer now
FORMER Man City footballer Robinho has been told he must serve a nine year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman in Milan.
His wife has stood by him despite him being found guilty in November 2017. Here's what we know about her.
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Who is Robinho's wife Vivian Guglielmetti?
Robinho and Vivian's love story began when they were just teenagers.
The childhood sweethearts had been together for an incredible 12 years prior to tying the knot in July 2009 at the Casa Grande hotel in Guaruja, Brazil.
At the time Robinho was still the Premier-League's highest paid player, playing for Manchester City.
However, Vivian revealed that she postponed their wedding when Robinho was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Leeds earlier that year.
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Vivian said she only rescheduled it after the case was dropped, believing him to be innocent.
The pair separated briefly in 2011, but the reason behind the split has never been revealed.
Robinho and Vivian have remained together since - despite Robinho's current convictions.
Although the footballer has maintained that he is innocent, he has said that his only mistake is having cheated on his wife.
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But the allegations broke Vivian, who told police she stood there like a "stupid woman who doesn't know anything".
How many children does Robinho have?
Robinho and Vivian have three children, two sons and a daughter, who live with them in Santos, just outside of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Court finds Ex-Man City star Robinho ‘brutally humiliated gang rape victim’
Robson Jr. Guglielmetti de Souza, named after his father, was born on December 17, 2007.
He was 18 months old at the time of his parent's wedding.
Their second son Gianluca was born on April24, 2011.
Robinho and Vivian also have a daughter, who was born in 2015.
Where is Robinho now?
Robinho lives in Santos, outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
His full name is Robson de Souza and he was born on January 25, 1984, in São Vicente.
He signed for Santos in 2002 and remained with them until 2005 before heading to Europe and signing for Real Madrid before joining Man City in 2008.
After stints at AC Milan and in Turkey, he returned to Santos in 2020, but retired from football the same year to concentrate on his defence.
It was while he was at Milan that the sexual assault took place in 2013.
What has Robinho been charged with?
In 2017, a court in Milan found Robinho and five other Brazilian men guilty of gang-raping a woman in a nightclub in 2013.
He was sentenced to nine years.
Robinho was accused of plying her with alcohol before raping her.
He has continued to deny any wrongdoing insisting that his relations with the woman were entirely consensual.
In an interview, Robinho told Brazilian outlet : "A girl approached me, we started to have contact with her consent and mine too... then I went home.
"When she approached me, she wasn't drunk, because she remembers my name, she remembers who I am.
"The person who drinks doesn't remember anything. She remembers."
His nine-year prison sentence was upheld in March 2021, as a court said he "brutally humiliated" and "belittled" the victim.
After his appeal failed, Italy issued an international arrest warrant for the Brazilian star in 2022.
The same people who don’t do anything against it [racism] are the ones who sentenced me
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The former Premier League star had avoided jail due to Brazil's policy of not extraditing nationals.
Italy had been seeking for him to be imprisoned in Brazil.
In March 2023, he was made to hand his passport over to Brazilian authorities and a court decided he must now serve out his prison sentence in his home country.
Robinho is now set to be incarcerated immediately, reports.
It is thought that he may appeal to Brazil's Supreme Court and demand a retrial in Brazil.
The footballer has been arguing that racism in Italy is to blame for his conviction.
He claimed: “I played only four years in Italy and I got tired of seeing stories of racism.
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"Unfortunately, that exists to this day. [The rape case] was in 2013, now we are in 2024.
"The same people who don’t do anything against it [racism] are the ones who sentenced me."
Robinho's rape case: a timeline
The rape case involving Brazilian footballer Robinho spans several years. Here's a brief timeline:
- January 22, 2013: Robinho was one of a group of six men convicted of sexually assaulting an Albanian woman in a club during his stint for AC Milan.
- 2014: Brazilian media reported on the allegations against Robinho, but no formal charges were filed at that time.
- 2017: Robinho was found guilty of sexual assault by an Italian court and sentenced to nine years in prison. However, he denied the charges and appealed the verdict.
- 2020: After the appeal process, Robinho's sentence was upheld by the Italian court. But due to the statute of limitations in Italy, he was not extradited to serve his sentence.
- 2022: Robinho's prison sentence is ratified.
- March 2023: Robinho surrendered his passport to authorities.
- November 2023: Italian prosecutors said they felt Robinho should serve his time in Brazil.
- March 20, 2024: Brazil's Superior Court formed a simple majority and voted for Robinho to serve the sentence in his home country.
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