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Soccer Star Ordered to Share Custody of Rolexes With Wife

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The football great will have to share his prized possessions with his famous ex.

Francesco Totti and Ilary Blasi
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Italian soccer legend Francesco Totti has hit a major milestone in his drawn-out divorce battle: winning joint custody of his four Rolex watches. Totti, 48, married TV presenter and model Ilary Blasi, 44, in 2005. However, the pair separated in 2022 and have been navigating a contentious divorce ever since. The retired Roma captain publicly accused his wife of infidelity in 2022, telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he had discovered her affair while grieving the death of his father. Meanwhile, Blasi said in 2023 that they actually separated after she hired a private investigator to uncover his affair with model Noemi Bocchi. According to Italian news agency ANSA, the estranged spouses have been fighting over custody of the luxury watches for nearly two years, after Totti accused Blasi of “running off” with the four Rolexes when they stopped living together. Now, a civil court has ordered the famous exes to find an arrangement that allows both of them access to the luxury watches. In addition to the watches, Totti and Blasi share three children: son Christian, 19, and daughters Chanel, 18, and Isabel, 9.

Read it at ANSA