Even though WENN identifies this lady ^^ as someone else, I feel pretty strongly that this is a photo of Roberto Cavalli, 74, and his 29-year-old girlfriend Sandra Nilsson. Okay… let’s give Cavalli some credit. She’s not 19 years old, she’s 29. She knows what she’s doing. And what she’s doing is banging a 70-something year old man so he’ll buy her luxury property. Would you do the same? Would I? If I’m being really honest, I would do it for a night if there was serious jewelry involved. Like, the Hope Diamond. Yes, I would bang Roberto Cavalli one time for the Hope Diamond. But would I be his “girlfriend” for a £2.22 million island in Sweden? Eh.
Roberto Cavalli, 74, has allegedly bought his 29-year-old Swedish playmate girlfriend a private island in her home country. Sandra Nilsson is the new owner of the £2.22million Stora Rullingen off the coast of Strängnäs, some 50miles east of Stockholm. The island comes complete with four-bedroom villa, hunting lodge, pool and the remains of a Viking hill fort as well as its own small golf course.
The former Playmate of the Month – who is 45 years Cavalli’s junior – has been gifted the 1.25mile long island by her elderly boyfriend, Swedish media reports. The couple allegedly visited the island together in December, after being flown in on a private helicopter, and the sale was confirmed as completed last month, Aftonbladet reports. It appears that Cavalli and Ms Nilsson made quite the deal, as the island was originally put on the market for £5.7million(75million SEK). The 81.5 acre island comes with a private four-bedroom villa with both a jacuzzi and a swimming pool built into the mountain.
The grass lawn outside is big enough to allow propeller planes and helicopters to land, as well as various riding games, football, tennis and golf practice with six tee-off areas. A smaller hunting lodge with space for ten people has been advertised as the ‘perfect space for everything from wine tastings to important meetings’. It also has a 1.5km long jogging track, a private harbour, it’s own ferry with space for ten people, a 300square metre stable with three horse boxes and staff lodgings.
Ms Nilsson, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Lina Nilson in international media, has been seen by Cavalli’s side since he separated from his wife in 2010. Despite success as a glamour model in the late noughties, Ms Nilsson’s modelling career appears to have waned, and it is likely that the island was bought for her by her elderly fashion mogul boyfriend. Her parents told local Swedish media that she splits her time between New York and Italy where she ‘works for Roberto Cavalli’.
‘She always dreamed of her own island,’ her father Jan-Ove Nilsson told Katrineholms Kuriren. ‘She wants something in Sweden to fall back on’.
Obvious statement is obvious: “She wants something in Sweden to fall back on.” And honestly, this is kind of better than marrying the old guy and manipulating her way into his will. Give her the gift of a private island now, keep her as a girlfriend and not a wife and have fun. I hope it was worth it. Do you think it was? Being his “girlfriend” for some-odd four or five years and then getting a $4-5 million private island out of the deal?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.
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