REVEALED: Secrets of Richard Gere's new life in Spain with a wife 34 years his junior - who wasn't even BORN when he made An Officer and a Gentleman. And why the couple believe they've known each other during their past lives...
REVEALED: Secrets of Richard Gere's new life in Spain with a wife 34 years his junior - who wasn't even BORN when he made An Officer and a Gentleman. And why the couple believe they've known each other during their past lives...
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Some men might look upon their eighth decade as a time to unwind and enjoy the simple pleasures of life, surrounded, perhaps, by the comforts of the familiar. Richard Gere, however, is not some men. Once Hollywood's ultimate romantic hero, at the age of 75 the actor (snowy locks aside, his youthful visage belies his years) has chosen to up-sticks and move 3,500 miles from the US to live in the Spanish city of Madrid.
![[The couple on holiday in Spain in 2022. Gere is also stepfather to Alejandra's eldest son Albert, 12]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/25/16/94508827-14324635-image-a-4_1737822294785.jpg)
Why? For love, of course. And who would expect anything less from the man who, as the star of films like An Officer And A Gentleman and Pretty Woman, swept his leading ladies off their feet – and set the pulses of a legion of women racing?. The actor, whose proficiency in the local lingo is still, it would seem, a work in progress, has been busily making himself at home in the Spanish capital with his 41-year-old Spanish wife Alejandra Silva and their two young sons.
![[Gere with Debra Winger in An Officer And A Gentleman]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/25/16/94508837-14324635-image-m-3_1737822279194.jpg)
Almost as well known for Buddhism and his vocal activism in pursuit of a Free Tibet as he is for his Hollywood credits, Gere made the leap across the Atlantic late last year and, as The Mail on Sunday discovered last week, the European city has warmly embraced its newest celebrity resident – and is being patiently encouraging as he grapples with the language.
![[Gere starred alongside Julia Roberts in 1990 film Pretty Woman]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/25/16/94508853-14324635-image-a-5_1737822324428.jpg)
The couple sold their Connecticut ranch for £8.6million and are reported to have bought a sprawling three-storey mansion – complete with swimming pool and wine cellar – in the affluent neighbourhood of La Moraleja. Clearly the move has been a hit with Alejandra, who was born in Galicia but raised in Madrid, where her businessman father, Ignacio Silva, is the former vice president of football club Real Madrid.
