Ricky Martin & Husband Jwan Yosef Split: ‘We Have Decided To End Our Marriage’

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Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef confirmed connected July 6 that they are divorcing aft six years of marriage. “We person decided to extremity our matrimony with love, respect and dignity for our children and honoring what we person experienced arsenic a mates each these fantastic years,” they told PEOPLE. “Our top tendency present is to person a steadfast household dynamic and a narration centered connected bid and relationship to proceed the associated upbringing of our children, preserving the emotion and respect we person for each other.”

Ricky and Jwan met via Instagram successful 2015, and they confirmed their romance six months aboriginal successful the outpouring of 2016. They went reddish carpet authoritative astatine the amfAR Inspiration Gala that year, and Ricky announced his engagement to Jwan during a Nov. 2016 interrogation connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Ricky and Jwan connected the reddish carpet. (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

In January 2018, Ricky confirmed that helium and Jwan had gotten married, though their nonstop wedding day is unclear. “I’m a husband, but we’re doing a dense enactment successful a mates of months. I’ll fto you know,” helium dished astatine the clip successful an interrogation with E! News. “We’ve exchanged vows.”

Together, Ricky and Jwan person 2 children: A daughter, Lucia, 4, and a son, Renn, 3. Additionally, Ricky has 2 children — duplicate boys Matteo and Valentino — who helium welcomed successful 2008, earlier helium was with Jwan.

Jwan is an acclaimed creator and artist. Ricky antecedently revealed that helium archetypal reached retired to the 38-year-old erstwhile helium saw a portion of his enactment connected societal media. “I saw him and I said, ‘Oh My God, I americium marrying him,'” Ricky recalled. “He’s the astir romanticist antheral I’ve ever met.” Ricky and Jwan spent months getting to cognize each different online earlier really gathering successful person. “We were talking for, like, six months without maine proceeding his voice,” the vocalist admitted successful a 2017 interview. “We talked astir art. Nothing sexy. I swear, thing sexy. It was each astir our creation and beingness successful general.” They began dating aft gathering successful London for the archetypal time.

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