The Spanish dream of Richard Gere (Pennsylvania, 76 years old) and Alejandra Silva (A Coruña, 46 years old) has, for the moment, come to an end. The actor confirmed it in an interview with the magazine HI! last October: “We’re back here,” he acknowledged during the New York premiere of the documentary on the Dalai Lama Wisdom and happinessof which he is executive producer. Now it was his wife who provided more details about his move in an interview HI!
On November 5th the Suarez brand organized an intimate dinner in Madrid to present its new high jewelery collections, Aura and Tessera. Among the guests was Alejandra Silva, who returned to the capital to attend the event a few weeks after leaving the city and returning to the United States due to a family decision. “Spain is my home and, even if my life takes place between different places, I always need to maintain that connection with my land, with its people and with its way of feeling,” he now reveals in the aforementioned publication.
Silva said in an interview for The weekly country, last May, that one of the main reasons the couple settled in Spain was to go unnoticed. And, in part, they succeeded: they only saw each other at events in which they participated together. Although the stay was supposed to last longer, the couple decided to return to the United States again a year after their move. “It has been a process full of lessons. Spain has given us a lot, especially on a family level, and returning to the United States was a thoughtful decision. We feel good, strong, at peace. In reality, I don’t see it as a farewell, but as another stage in our journey. We continue with one foot in every place, and this too is a gift”, explains Silva. HI!
For the moment he does not rule out returning to live in his native country in the future. “I don’t rule it out at all. Spain will always be a point of return. Sometimes life asks you for movement, other times it asks for quiet. Now we are in a phase very focused on the children (Alexander, six, and James, five), in accompanying them where they need it most, but Spain will always be in our plans. It’s part of who I am.” Furthermore, the publicist states that from time to time she needs to return to her country: “Every time I disembark, the first thing I do is smell the air, feel the sun… that smell of home that only Spain has. I always try to escape to the sea or the countryside, even if just for a day. It recharges me, centers me and reminds me of my roots.” Furthermore, she says, she will return to complete the professional commitments she still has pending: “I am still tied to several projects.”
The American actor sold his house in Connecticut for $10.7 million in 2024 to move to the exclusive La Moraleja residential complex in Madrid. “She was very generous in giving me six years of life in my world, so I think it’s only fair that I give her at least six more years of life in hers,” the singer explained. pretty Woman in an interview with Vanity Fair of his arrival in Spain and of a period spent in the country that was not respected. “For me, going to Madrid will be a great adventure because I have never lived outside the United States full time. For Alejandra, it will be wonderful to be closer to her family, her lifelong friends and her culture,” she added in the aforementioned conversation.
This new move took many by surprise after national media claimed that the couple, who married in 2018, had purchased a house in Galicia. It is also surprising because Gere has been very critical of Donald Trump’s policies, especially after he won the presidential election in November 2024. “I come from America, which is in a very dark place, where the president is a bully,” he said during the last Goya celebration, where he received an award for his film career.
