Former world No. 1 tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 54, who reportedly earned $60 million throughout her successful career, blames her ex-husband for leaving her penniless. “I focused on playing tennis and never handled my own financial affairs because I didn’t know how. I trusted my husband… And the [£31m] vanished. I was left to shoulder the entire burden,” the tennis champ said on a Spanish TV show. Sanchez Vicario was married to entrepreneur Josep Santacana from 2008 to 2019, and had two children together. “I fell blindly in love, and he really isn’t the person I thought he was,” she continued. The couple was found guilty of fraud in 2024 for hiding assets and evading paying debts to the Bank of Luxembourg. Sanchez Vicario was initially ordered a two-year prison sentence, but the tennis star, a first-time offender who promised to pay back her $11 million debt, avoided prison. Santacana was sentenced to three years behind bars. During the trial, Sanchez Vicario said, despite her high-earning career, she had no money to support her children. The Spanish phenom won three French Open singles titles, the U.S. Open in 1994 and reached multiple Australian Open and Wimbledon finals.
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