Sudden divorces make for real estate bargains…
The three-time champ Gabriel Medina has listed his swank beachfront mansion, complete with swimming pool and sauna, following his withdrawal from the tour’s opening event and split from wife, the Sports Illustrated model Yasmin Brunet.
The five-bed, six-bathroom joint is at Maresias, one of the prettiest beaches in Brazil, a five-click stretch of yellowish sand and lightly shadowed by mountains, one hundred miles from Sao Paulo city.
Medina, twenty-eight and with eyes so dark they look like they’ve been stolen off a gingerbread man’s face, moved out of the house after the split.
According to Brazil media, Brunet, who is thirty-three, refused to leave and put towels over the security cameras so no one could see what she was doing. Allegedly etc.
The house is for sale for eight-mill Brazilian reais, around one-and-a-half mill US, occupies a couple thousand square feet of floor space, has a pool, sauna and comes furnished.
Five days ago, Medina cited “emotional issues” for tapping out of the tour’s opening event, the Billabong Pro Pipeline.
“Recognizing and admitting to myself that I’m not well has been a very difficult process and choosing to take time to take care of myself was perhaps the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my entire life,” Medina wrote on Instagram. “I’ve wondered a lot lately if I should make this public or keep it private, but it’s only fair that all of you who have always rooted for me know the moment I’m facing. Mental health is very important. I need to be 100% mentally to compete again.”
It’s been a wild couple of years for Medina who became estranged from his mama Simone and step-daddy Charlie over his marriage to Brunet.
The feud went nuclear a few months ago with Simone’s allegations of a wild sex tape of a real young Brunet from a drunken party in Rio.
Ironically, despite everything, Medina had never seemed happier.
Gone were the flashing glances, the disagreeable tone, the tears etc.
He even reunited with his real daddy, Claudinho, and moved him into one of his houses.
Photos of the joint are pretty rough, maybe ‘cause it’s a hurried sale etc.
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Physical or Mental.Pain is Pain.And having cancer( I’m a record of sorts), there are days,” Damn! I don’t hurt too bad, then, ohh crap!*I can’t surf in the Ocean anymore( cancer spread into my right lung in 2012& you realize,” I’d drown in waves that I surfed as a beginner.The darkness,” far worse than” bones in your nose aching, and you feel lost.This is what” Gabe” is facing right now.He( evidently is very religious) and a marriage Failure” is wreaking havoc on his life.He” WILL” be back” Give him time” then look out.Me? Gonna meet my maker soon but I am the sole provider for “29” orphaned& abandoned Kitty’s.God’s keeping me alive to love& feed them($1200.00 a month out of my pocket.Good luck everyone.
Borderline salting the grave. There’s reporting which you’ve already done and then there’s voyeuristic, obsessive clickbait byway of someone’s family life. Also, learn to spell. It’s your job. This wasn’t a “your/you’re” thing. It’s an entire article of shit errors, probably written on the Notes app.
I’ve heard rumours that he’s applying for Australian citizenship and moving to South Australia
bear traps on both legs: one from messy divorce, the other family estrangement.
It’ll take Gabe 3 years to get back to zero from this nightmare.
book it.
Real men eat ass…
Criiiiikey Dezza
Going on a surf trip or doing a real estate deal with you (if you ever get a licence) would potentially be fraught with many logistic and statistical problems.
Maresias is in ‘Southern’ Brazil.
It doesn’t have a north end due to facing directly ‘south’, with a west end and an east end.
From the photos looking seaward one can surmise that this house is fairly centrally located.
A couple (2) hundred thousand square feet is 4 and a half acres (that’s three time the size of Buckingham Palace).
P.S.
At least ya got the price right though…hehe
Apart from that, perfect!
Northern Brasil???
Northern Brasil is in the North of Brasil
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Derek, what’s the surf like at that beach? Gotta list the important stuff….
Two turn beachies
4 for Gmed and a lil bazz, air rev.
Big fan of the ductless AC. Those things work wonders in the tropics or the desert. Sadly there are no 5 hour or less direct flights so I’m out.
1.5 million us? So that’s close too 750k Australian.
He can sell up and buy a newish McMansion in seven hills, Sydney and start again!
More like $2 million AUD.
Corrected!
Sweet, he can afford a villa in the shire now ( 30 mins from the beach)!
Think you meant to say a couple thousand square feet Derek.
Yeah, butchered that. With your permission, may I change? Or let mistake stand?
quick to fucking tap out of there
Cut your lost and never, ever looking back is a very smart move in his spot.
He’ll recover, rebuild and be fine.
She’ll struggle get another free life from a bloke.
Free life from a bloke? She wasn’t some gold digging pauper. Jesus.
And even if she was a gold digger she’d have zero problems finding a new financier.
She should hook up with Italo and haunt him accross the globe.
meanwhile in a shadowy corner at recently adopted bio dads gifted house gab weeps, trembling in fetal over news of epic pipe all day…
ps well it seems that claiming actual surf season would shade realstate bait were too soon…