Sofia Vergara, The Colombian continues to be one of the most powerful Latinas and the highest-paid actress in the world. She was discovered by a talent scout who had her hair dyed black to make her appear more Latina.
The prejudices still existing in the Hollywood industry force Sofía Vergara to dye her hair dark so that in this way she looks even more, Latina. However, the world's highest-paid actress according to Magazine, with an annual income of $43 million, was born as blonde as the Californian sun. Ever since a talent scout discovered her on the Colombian beaches as a teenager, her career has been meteoric. This Monday, July 10, she turns 50, converted into an icon.
The one in Barranquilla, a town where another of the most powerful Latinas on the planet, Shakira, was also born, has fulfilled the American dream to the letter. But unlike other Latinas, her cradle was made of gold, she studied in private schools and had bodyguards. In the cinema, she was sponsored by the billionaire Tyler Perry -a supporter of the Dukes of Sussex when they arrived in California- and touched the sky when she played Gloria Pritchett in the comedy Modern Family (2009-2020), for which she earned $500,000 per chapter. That cachet, together with her advertising contracts and her salary of 10 million dollars a year for America's Got Talent, has allowed her to amass a fortune of about 180 million dollars, (177 million euros) according to the Magazine.
The star is a great strategist in real estate operations. For almost two years she has lived with her second husband, actor Joe Manganiello (45), in a 1,600 m2 Tuscan-style mansion on a 1.2-hectare plot for which she paid $26 million. To get around the city, he usually does it with one of his favorite brands, a Bentley Continental GTC (starting at $200,000), or a Bentayga (starting at $185,000) and, of course, if you want a sportier look, use the Porsche 977 Turbo ($133,000) and the Jagua XJ ($87,000).
From her previous marriage to Joe González-Ripoll, whom she divorced in 1993, she has a son named Manolo (30), who on more than one occasion has been confused with one of her partners. The life of luxury and tinsel that surrounds the interpreter and model is littered with tragedies. Her older brother Rafael was murdered after a kidnapping attempt in 1998; Her little brother Julio was deported from the United States to Colombia for having a serious criminal record and it was said that some of her partners had connections with the mafia.
But the list does not end there. After fighting thyroid cancer, she had so many problems getting pregnant that she decided to freeze embryos to become a mother again through a surrogate with her then-partner, Nick Loeb (46), whose great-great-grandfather was one of the founders of the entity. financial company Lehman Brothers, which in 2008 carried out the largest bankruptcy in the economic history of the United States.
When Sofia and Nick broke up in 2014, the two got into a legal battle over who got custody of the embryos. Last year a judge agreed with the actress that the genetic material could not be used without her prior consent.
