LISBON, – Portugal’s public prosecutor’s workplace has charged socialite Jose Castelo Branco with home violence offences in opposition to his spouse, British-American diamond heiress Betty Grafstein, 95, alleging that he had abused her for many years, it stated on Monday.
Grafstein, who’s a U.S. citizen, ended up in a hospital in May attributable to a fall suffered after allegedly being pushed by Castelo Branco, 61, at their dwelling in Sintra close to Lisbon.
The hospital filed the preliminary accusation in opposition to the socialite and superstar artwork supplier, who has been a frequent visitor on TV exhibits in Portugal, usually sporting drag. He was briefly detained after the incident in May however has denied any wrongdoing, whereas Grafstein has since returned to the United States.
Castelo Branco and his legal professionals weren’t instantly out there for remark.
“The suspect and the sufferer have been married since November 1996, and the indictment states that, for the reason that begin of the wedding, the suspect abused the sufferer bodily and verbally,” the prosecutor’s workplace stated in an announcement.
“Using such behaviour, the suspect, 61, acted with the completed goal of mistreating the sufferer, 95, abusing her physique and psychological well being, hurting and scaring her, within the full information that she was his spouse and conscious of her age.”
The assertion from the prosecutor’s workplace additionally talked about the incident in May.
Born Elizabeth Larner in Britain, Grafstein moved to the U.S. within the Nineteen Forties, the place she married diamond dealer Albert Grafstein. The couple purchased a home in Portugal within the Seventies, the place she moved after her husband’s dying in 1991, having inherited his diamond enterprise.
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