Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are getting a divorce. They met in 2015 and married in 2018, although it feels like they’ve been together for a lot longer than that. They have two children together, and Ricky also has sons Matteo and Valentino – he was a single dad when he met Jwan. Jwan and Ricky were a hot couple, but they’re both single now and back on the market.
After six years of marriage, Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are divorcing.
“We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years,” the Puerto Rican superstar and the Syrian-Swedish artist tell PEOPLE in a joint statement.
“Our greatest desire now is to continue having a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centered on peace and friendship to continue the joint upbringing of our children, preserving the respect and love we have for each other,” continue the ex-couple, who share two kids: daughter Lucia, born in 2018, and son Renn, born in 2019. (Martin previously welcomed twin sons Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008, whom he’ll continue to raise as a single parent.)
I’ll be curious to see if we ever find out if there was something which triggered the divorce, an affair or a fight or something else. Ricky keeps his personal and professional business on lockdown for the most part, and he has a huge team helping him with every aspect of his life. Which is probably draining on a marriage, but it will probably mean that Ricky has the money and power to dictate terms about what comes out next. It was just last year when Ricky leveraged that machinery to shut down his nephew, who made some heinous claims about Ricky. I also kind of wonder if that whole “nephew story” played a role in the end of Ricky’s marriage.
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Well, this is sad news I was not expecting to hear.
I’m telling you, it has something to do with Ricky’s nephew and that accusation lobbied against him. I believe the nephew even though he took it all back. I still hope that he is safe and away from Ricky.
💯 this. Also convinced it has to do with the nephew, who I also believe.
Same, I believe the nephew and whatever Martin paid to shut it all don, something else will come out on the wash. What will really be telling is the custody agreement they come up with for the two children they had together.
I believed the nephew and I still do. The way that entire situation went down remains shady to me.
The part that jumped out at me was the “with dignity for our children.”
As though they are beyond love, respect, and dignity for each other, but they’re gonna scrape something together out of love, respect, and dignity for their children.
That whole situation with Ricky’s nephew would have shaken the marriage. Not too surprised that they’re divorcing. I didn’t know they had children together tho.
I thought they were together a much longer time.
Did not realize they had such young kids together either.
Btw, I am certain RM has all the wealth, power, PR teams in this relationship.
He is very wealthy, multi-millionaire for decades.
I wonder if the divorce will go quickly or will it turn into the latest gossip, like Kevin Costners?
Strange wording, about the 2 oldest children.
Ricky will parent them as a single parent?
I guess Jwan didn’t formally adopt them?
Even so, they know Jwan as a parental figure & he’s dad to their siblings.
Strange indeed.
Plus, the nephew thing was completely swept under. Not surprised to hear they are divorcing now it’s calm again.
THANK you, I thought the wording was so weird.
It appeared like Ricky’s former partner was like a dad to the twins when they were together (lots of photos of them as a family) so I wonder if he’s still in their life.
The wording made it sound like the kids were in separate groups. SO weird.
What stands out to me is the last bit about Matteo and Valentino — “whom (Martin will) continue to raise as a single parent.” I’m not surprised that legally, Martin is their only parent. If Yosef has been a part of their lives for 6-8 years, though, did he not also function as a parent? It just seems odd to me to publicly proclaim both the importance of a healthy family dynamic and the “joint upbringing “ of children in a supposedly blended family — while also pointing out that Martin will “continue “ to raise the oldest two as a single parent.
This sounds like a hot mess. There was no reason to include the “single parent “ bit — no matter how their family actually works things out privately. I hope all the kids — including the now adult nephew — have the supports that they need to thrive.
Step parents don’t usually take responsibility for step kids post-divorce.
I’m not a step-parent but that just sounds cruel to both the exiting adult and also the kids.
It seems like it would be less likely for a blended family to have perfect boundaries and the new spouse never takes on a parental role and none of them ever come to care deeply for each other.
That last part implies that somewhere, Ricky is estomping his little foot……