Former Formula 1 manager Willi Weber wants to part with his luxury villa in Baden-Württemberg – but the sale is proving difficult. What’s behind the high price and what will the 83-year-old do now?
Willi Weber, the long-time manager of Formula 1 world record champion Michael Schumacher, wants to sell his villa in Stuttgart, where he lives with his wife even after the couple split.
“We will stay together there until the house is sold,” the 83-year-old told the German Press Agency. Only then did he want to move the center of his life to his partner in the Frankfurt area. “You have to do one thing first, then do another thing,” Weber said.
Weber said it expects a sale price of around 15 million euros for the main and secondary homes. However, the current situation is not in his favor in terms of sales: “You have to find someone first,” he also told the “Bild” newspaper. “The world is bad right now, selling a house – the timing is never ideal.”
“She had to go, we all had to go,” Weber said of his wife
The newspaper further reported that Weber was married to his wife Heidi for 57 years. His relationship with his current partner has been going on for eleven years. He did not reveal whether a divorce was imminent. But what is clear is that Heidi has to move. “He has to come out, we all have to come out. He knows that too,” Bild quoted Weber as saying.
Weber’s villa property from 2004 was advertised by agents on real estate portals as nearly 3,000 square meters, eight parking spaces and 875 square meters of living space on four floors – including a spa area with infinity pool. The purchase price there is said to be 13.9 million euros.
In 1988, Weber took over the management of Schumacher, then a 19-year-old young talent from Kerpen (North Rhine-Westphalia). The seven-time Formula 1 world champion spoke at length about the “fantastic relationship” before Schumacher’s long-time spokesperson Sabine Kehm took over management at the end of 2009.
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