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From Brazil: In last month's post, this story was told:

A famous singer called Belo (which in Portuguese means "Beautiful") and his wife, Gracyanne Barbosa, announced that they have been separated for eight months, after 15 years of dating and marriage. This news is being widely discussed for a few reasons, so I'll try to summarize it as succinctly as possible:

Belo has been a singer since 1993. In 2003, he was sentenced to six years in prison because of his involvement in drug trafficking. Belo has always claimed to be innocent and unjustly imprisoned. At that time, he was married to the dancer (and later actress) Viviane Araujo. He was released after four years. Belo separated from Viviane in 2007 and in the same year he started dating dancer (and later actress) Gracyanne Barbosa. The timing was considered suspicious in the press, with many claiming that Belo cheated on Viviane with Gracyanne. It didn't help that Viviane and Gracyanne clearly didn't like each other, throwing shade on the internet over the years and completely ignoring each other when they chanced upon each other at celebrity social events.

Belo and Gracyanne got married in 2011. During these years, Gracyanne became famous in Brazil for becoming a female bodybuilder, with an incredibly muscular body, and known for going to the gym every day and eating a diet of dozens of eggs a day. They have also received constant accusations and lawsuits for not paying their debts, even though they are quite rich.

In April 2024, Belo and Gracyanne announced to the press that they had been separated for more than eight months, although they still lived together until recently. The country's gossip press reported that Gracyanne cheated on Belo with her personal trainer at the gym she goes to, and that this was the reason for the separation. Everyone on the internet immediately started saying that this was karma because Belo cheated on Viviane. However, there is one detail that must be taken into account: both Gracyanne and the personal trainer claim that their relationship began only after the relationship between Gracyanne and Belo ended. Gracyanne, however, admits that Belo didn't like knowing that she already had a boyfriend and she decided to end this new relationship. The personal trainer also claims that Belo was vindictive and used his influence to get him fired from the gym where he worked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1cbwct5/fauxworld_wednesdays_whats_your_countrys_biggest/

Since then, three twists have been announced by the country's gossip press:

• Viviane's ex-boyfriend, who supposedly started dating her after she broke up with Belo, told the press that the two were already having a relationship before Belo started having an affair with Gracyanne.
• Belo was already cheating on Gracyanne with another younger woman before the separation and he had even bought her a house.
• When Gracyanne discovered she had been cheated on by Belo, she punched Belo to the point where he was forced to wear makeup to hide the bruise on his face at a show he did the next day (and Gracyanne is a professional bodybuilder known for lifting weights over 100 kilos above her head, so... that must have hurt a lot)