The Goyanes family is going through its most tragic moments. On August 7, the patriarch, Carlos Goyanes, passed away at the age of 79. On Monday, August 26, the death of his eldest daughter, Caritina Goyanes, at the age of 46, was announced.
It was this afternoon when the journalist Paloma García-Pelayo gave the news on the television programme Y ahora Sonsoles, on Antena 3. Shortly afterwards, sources close to the family confirmed the death of the eldest daughter of the businessman and producer and Cari Lapique due to a heart attack. In fact, the last time she was photographed was on 8 August at her father’s funeral in the chapel of the Immaculate Conception, in Marbella. According to the magazine ¡Hola!, the businesswoman was at her home in the city of Malaga during her family holiday on the Costa del Sol. After feeling unwell, she went to the hospital with her husband, the businessman Antonio Matos. “While at the medical centre, she suffered a cardiac arrest that she has not been able to overcome”, according to the magazine. Other media report that his death occurred at home.
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In the summer of 2008 she married Antonio Matos in Ibiza, and they had two children: Pedro, 13, and Minicari, 7. In fact, her last post on Instagram, published on July 26, is a photo with her husband celebrating their 16th wedding anniversarya celebration that had about 500 guests and ended up on the cover of ¡Hola!. Nieves Álvarez, Naty Abascal, Nuria González and her husband Fernando Fernández Tapias, Ana Rosa Quintana, Carmen Martínez Bordiú, Fonsi Nieto, Vicky Martín Berrocal, Paulina Rubio and Nicolás Vallejo Nájera, as well as some of the Goyanes-Lapique family’s friends from Marbella, such as Gunnilla Von Bismarck, were some of the famous guests at the wedding. “16 years!!!! And 16 billion times I would choose you again to walk this path together!!! I love you,” said her message last July. They met four years before their wedding through mutual friends. “Mother of Pedrito and Mini Cari, crazy about Matos and happy with @sixsensbycari,” was described in the biography of your Instagram account, where he has around 50,000 followers.
Caritina Goyanes studied law, but a few years ago she changed direction and opened her own catering company, Sixsens, with a catering service for weddings, private celebrations or online orders. In 2011 she was the host of the programme Celebraciones Fáciles on the Decasa television channel. A year later, she published her own cookbook: Las mejores recetas de Caritina: fácils, originales y baratas. “Caritina Goyanes shows us that inviting friends, family, your crush or your boss to dinner, or surprising them on special occasions such as Christmas or at children’s parties, can be easy with the recipes in this book. In it, she also offers us recipes for healthy cooking, from her favourite restaurants, from acquaintances or that she has collected,” says the synopsis of the book.
Caritina Goyanes, at the funeral of her father, Carlos Goyanes, on August 8, 2024 in Marbella.Lorenzo Carnero/Cordon press / Cordon Press
The unexpected death occurred less than three weeks after the death of her father, Carlos Goyanes. The businessman and producer became especially well-known in the seventies for marrying the artist Pepa Flores, baptized as Marisol. They walked down the aisle in 1969, when he was 24 and she was 21. They were together for three years, until 1972, due to the immaturity that both claimed as the cause of the divorce. Cari Lapique and Carlos Goyanes would marry in Marbella three years later, in 1975, in a lavish wedding in which Carmen Franco herself, the daughter of the dictator, signed as a witness. In addition to Caritina, the couple had Carla, a regular in the Spanish gossip press although also with a more discreet profile in recent years.
“Has it harmed you that your parents were famous people?” Caritina Goyanes was asked in an interview with Vanitatis in 2020. “We have not been a family of troubles and we have had a very healthy relationship with the press, with people. My mother, for example, is a woman who has always worked and the fact of appearing in magazines can be confusing. Also, many times you go to certain events because it is part of your job,” responded the person who has starred in several reports throughout her life in different Spanish tabloids. Last April, Caritina, her mother and her daughter starred in a report together in the magazine ¡Hola!“We spend all day together! We live one floor below my parents and my children spend time with their grandparents every day. In fact, I’ll tell you, even if one weekend, the four of us suddenly get away, we always spend all the holidays and celebrations with the whole family,” she recalled then about their close family relationship.
