Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef announce divorce after 6 years of marriage
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef announce they are divorcing. Photo: AFP
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef have decided to call it quits after being married for six years. The Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Martin and the Syrian-Swedish painter Yosef got married in 2018. They share two kids together.
Martin, 51 and Yosef, 38, told People magazine in a joint statement, "We have decided to end our marriage with love, respect and dignity for our children and honouring what we have experienced as a couple all these wonderful years."
Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef, who share two children together, daughter, Lucia, 4 and a son, Renn, 3, and have amicably separated as they further added to their statement, "Our greatest desire now is to continue having a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centred on peace and friendship to continue the joint upbringing of our children, preserving the respect and love we have for each other."
Ricky Martin is already a father to twin sons, Matteo and Valentino, who were born in 2008 and he will continue to raise them as a single parent.
The Grammy winning singer and the conceptual artist first connected via Instagram in 2015, and started dating six months later when they first met in person in London. They made their relationship public at the amFAR Inspiration Gala in 2016.
They announced their engagement in 2016 itself.
They were married in 2018.
In January 2018, Martin confirmed his marriage with Jwan Yosef in an interview with E! News, "I'm a husband, but we're doing a heavy party in a couple of months."