Shakira ‘jets off on holiday with her two sons before their move to Miami’ after Gerard Pique split

Shakira reportedly left Barcelona on a private plane for a vacation with her children before continuing on to Miami for the start of her new life there.

Spanish media say the singer-songwriter left the Catalan capital around midday for an undisclosed location and will not return before moving to Florida.

The Catalan newspaper El Periódico described it as his ‘last goodbye’.

The news of her departure followed earlier reports that Shakira’s ex Gerard Piqué had been furious after the entertainer gave him days’ notice that she was heading to Miami later this week so her children could start the family. school there on April 11.

Spanish showbiz website Vanitatis reported on Friday that the singer-songwriter would leave Barcelona to start her new life in the United States with her parents and children Milan, ten, and Sasha, eight, before the end of next week.

Overnight, Shakira experts Lorena Vásquez and Laura Fa, who regularly report on the mother-of-two for the Catalan newspaper El Periódico, said the artist’s lawyer, Pilar Mane, had told Shakira’s lawyer Piqué, Ramón Tamborero, in a formal announcement that he was leaving for good.

They said Shakira, 46, had phoned the former Barcelona defender to confirm the news.

They also claimed that the two boys would start school in Florida on April 11, identifying the educational center as Miami Country Day, which is just north of the city and has a reputation as one of the best private schools for children their age. .

Neither lawyer for the couple could be reached for comment.

It was said that Piqué was furious and still did not know exactly what day they would fly to the United States.

Fa and Vázquez said: ‘He is very upset because they have told him with very little time.

“He does not agree with the fact that children do not finish the school year in Barcelona.”

April 11 is the day America’s school children will return to school after spring break.

Barcelona-based journalists had identified April 1 as the date Shakira would leave Spain with her children after calling off previous plans to travel earlier in the year due to the poor health of her father, 91-year-old William Mubarak. .

That was before his mother, Nidia Ripoll, was hospitalized in the Catalan capital after a blood clot was found in her leg.

Shakira and Piqué, who separated last May after 11 years together, confirmed in November that they had reached an agreement after a long negotiation that culminated in a marathon 12-hour meeting with their lawyers. They signed the agreement in a Barcelona court the following month.

As part of the deal, Piqué, who is now dating 24-year-old Catalan beauty Clara Chia, will spend the holidays with their children.

Shakira’s desire to move to Miami, where she used to live and where part of her family resides, is understood to have been the main sticking point in the former couple’s earlier failure to settle out of court.

The artist, who has relatives and several close friends in Miami, owns a 14 million POUND mansion in the city that she would have put up for sale in 2018 before removing it from the market a few months ago.

Late last month, the Spanish media claimed that Shakira may have found love with a new man in Miami.

News website OK Diario said it had been told the 46-year-old mother of two met the mystery man several months ago before she wrote her latest song against Piqué and his new girlfriend Clara Chia.

The former Barcelona defender’s relationship with Clara Chia, who just turned 24, arose shortly after he and Shakira announced their separation.

The singer-songwriter performed her diss track with Argentine DJ Bizarrap, in which she fires poison darts at Piqué and his new girlfriend, on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show last month. She went on to talk about her break with the former soccer player.

Piqué said in a later interview with Spanish newspaper El País that he was “very happy” after the dramatic changes in his life that included the break with Shakira and retirement from soccer.

He also closed a question about Shakira in the interview, but added: “Every parent has a responsibility to try to do what’s best for their children.”

It’s about protecting them. That is the job of all parents with their children. That’s what I’m focused on and that’s my job as a parent.

Piqué’s lawyer said in February, in his first public comments on the couple’s divorce negotiations: “They have made a great effort for the sake of their children, making sure they were not the protagonists.”

Both have shown great intelligence.

In a surprise interview with the respected Catalan daily La Vanguardia, Mr Tamborero, 74, a father of two, admitted of the talks that resulted in the deal: ‘It took seven months of negotiations.

‘The agreement was complex and required preparatory meetings.

“And the decisive reunion before the signing lasted 13 hours.”

Shakira will have to return to Barcelona for a £12 million tax fraud trial, but no trial date has yet been set.

She has denied any wrongdoing after being charged with six counts of tax fraud that prosecutors say she committed between 2012 and 2014.

A source close to the singer said about her decision to move to Miami before the end of the school year, in quotes published by the Catalan newspaper El Periódico: ‘Milan and Sasha have good grades and the teachers don’t see it as a problem.

“The decision has been well thought out and Shakira feels very calm after the schools did not object.

“If it negatively affected them in any way, she wouldn’t have made the decision to go to Miami now.”