- Boris Becker and girlfriend Lilian Monteiro wedding expected within the year
- This will be the disgraced tennis star’s third marriage after previous wives Lilly and Barbara
- The couple live in a ‘beautiful apartment’ in Milan a few years after insolvency prison sentence
Disgraced Boris Becker is thought to be engaged to his girlfriend who is 23 years his junior after a ‘secret proposal’.
German newspaper Bild reports that the money-hiding retired tennis player will be getting married for the third time.
Girlfriend Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 33, a political risk manager from the African island of Sao Tome and Principe, has been with Becker for several years.
They moved to Milan together on his release from prison where he served eight months of his two-and-a-half year sentence for insolvency crimes.
German magazine Bunte reports Becker saying on his 2022 release: ‘Because of her love, I survived.’
‘YES, SHE is the great love of my life. And I hope I always stay with her.’
The wedding is expected to be within the year.
Boris Becker is reported by German newspaper Bild to be engaged to girlfriend Lilian Monteiro
The wedding is expected to be within the year with Becker saying Monteiro is ‘the love of my life’
Monteiro, who has three degrees and speaks five languages, comes from a family of successful people.
Her father was Sao Tome and Principe’s defence minister and presidential candidate in 2014.
Becker, who had a highly regarded career as a tennis player and pundit before his crimes came out is reported by Bunte to have said on TV that Monteiro is the ‘love of my life.’
The ex-tennis star now lives with his girlfriend in what Bunte calls a ‘beautiful apartment’ in ‘the heart’ of Milan – only a few years after going to prison for not paying his debts.
Becker reportedly proposed to Monteiro at Milan’s Cathedral back in 2021 – but any hope of a fairytale wedding was cut short by the impending prison sentence.
She was a constant presence by Becker’s side while attending court hearings and even blew him a goodbye kiss when he was jailed last year and blasted by a judge for showing no remorse.
A source told The Sun: ‘Boris is incredibly grateful to Lilian for staying with him through ‘the hardest time’ of his life.
‘He said, “she saved me, and I will never forget her for that. She is the woman of my new life!”‘
After the prison release the couple who were based in the UK relocated to Milan.
This will be Becker’s third marriage.
Monteiro has three degrees, speaks five languages and is a political risk manager
He broke up with wife Lilly Becker in 2018 after nine years together.
His marriage first wife, Barbara Becker lasted one year less. They married in 1993 and separated in 2001, after the then tennis-player admitted to having an affair whilst she was pregnant with their second child.
Becker was charged with insolvency crimes in 2022 after declaring himself bankrupt and hiding assets worth £2.5m.
He hid the money by not declaring his share in a huge £1m German property as well as £700,000 cash from a loan among other assets.