Betty Grafstein95 years old, is now in the United States, after her discharge from the private hospital in the city of Cascais, where she was hospitalized from April 20 until Tuesday, June 4, in accordance with the wishes of her son, Roger Basil. The heir to the Grafstein Diamond Company takes charge of his mother’s fate and takes care of everything so that Betty’s divorce from José Castelo Branco takes place as quickly as possible.
Roger left Lisbon on Friday 31 May. He arrived in Portugal to learn about his mother’s condition and also to speak to the authorities and informed them of an old complaint of alleged assault against Betty Grafstein. “I spoke to the police and told them everything they wanted to know. I answered their questions and they were satisfied with what I said. (…) I feel relieved that there is someone here, in the police, who knows everything. When did this happen previously, 25 or 27 years ago, when [José Castelo Branco] I beat him, my mother went to the police with a friendI think they took some pictures of her and then she left. But the police never went to the house that day,” Roger said on TVI – Em Cima da Hora.
Many have wondered why Betty Grafstein endured all these years without complaining about the alleged abuse of her husband, Jose Castelo Branco. The answer may be in Marcela Fernandez’s statements, the businesswoman of Glitter’s Gallery, who was identified as a friend of the former art dealer until she turned her back on him, approached the American jeweler and her son, and about whom Betty would make her first outbursts after being recognized. To the hospital. “Betty felt so bad she thought she was going to die. She wanted people to know what she had gone through with the man she was so afraid of and considered dangerous. She had never done this before because she felt in the hospital it was safe. For the first time for me, she started telling everything “, the Mozambican businesswoman revealed to “TvMais”.
Regarding her alleged friendship with Castelo Branco, Marcela explained that the socialite “was never” her friend. “The relationship that we had was professional. He was never at my house and he was ridiculous when he said that I kept his money and his bags. He has nothing, everything is for my house,” he confirms to the publication.
Immediately upon her arrival in New York, Al-Sayegh was admitted to a private clinic to undergo surgery Examination and examination Any possible consequences of the trip. “Mrs Beatty will now be under observation in New York for 48 hours, then will leave for five days in a rehabilitation clinic. And Only then will he go to his apartment in New York. The staff who were in the house at the level of José Castelo Branco and Lady Betty will be fired and replaced by other staff. “All of this, in fact, was prepared by Roger, who had already prepared some things before coming to Lisbon and who is now continuing the things he prepared,” Maya said on CMTV’s Noite das Estrelas program.