Adriane Galisteu lied about the destiny of the money she got paid for the photos in Playboy Brazil 1995

Adriane Galisteu, the woman who got famous after Ayrton Senna's death, selling his private life to the press in no less than 60 press interviews and a book, edited with the same editorial house as the "Caras" gossip magazine, started to lye a few years later, about the destiny of the money she got paid in exchange for those pictures. In one of them she appears half naked and open legs, shaving her vagina, an image which created a lot of controversy in Brazil in those days.

Adriane Galisteu posed naked for Playboy Brazil in 1995, shaving her vagina, using the name of Senna to get the deal

Unlike the new version she got used to tell after the year 2000, she didn't use the money obtained with her photoshoot for Playboy Brazil in 1995, to help her brother, sick with AIDS, but she admits in an interview in 1995 (a year before her brother's death), for Caras, that she wanted the money to buy herself an appartment and a car (she bought herself a 300 square metres appartment in the most luxurious part of Sao Paulo named Jardims, and a BMW car).

Adriane Galisteu admitting in 1995 that she wanted the money of the Playboy reportage for an appartment and a car

In an interview for the magazine TRIP (Revista Trip, #66, Ano 12, 1998) two years after her brother had died, she admits also that she knew that her brother had AIDS since 1994, on the 10th of May, and that he died 2 years later, in 1996. Nevertheless, in the interview for Caras where she talks about the money's destiny i 1995, she doesn't mention a single time her brother, as she started to do years later. Had she wanted to help her brother, she would've said it in the press in 1995, since her brother had still a year to live.

Adriane Galisteu uses his brother's disease, AIDS, to justify that she posed for Playboy in 1995 using the name of Ayrton Senna

Headline on the cover of the gossip magazine: "Adriane Galisteu: accomplished in her new 310 square metres appartment"

The editor of the magazine Playboy Brazil, says that she did a lot pf pressure and almost auctioned Senna's death to obtain the best monetary deal possible, being that she finally got paid 100,000 $US.

Did Ayrton Senna love Xuxa or Adriane Galisteu?

I see this question many times in the social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr... 

Both are very different women and treated Ayrton very differently. Ayrton felt also different about the two of them. Xuxa had been the big love of his life, a very successful woman in the Brazilian television, and they dated from Christmas 1988 until the Grand Prix of Monaco 1990, when it became clear to both of them that their busy schedules wouldn't allow them to be together. 

Ayrton Senna meeting publicly Xuxa, in her TV show, "O Show da Xuxa", at Christmas 1988

Xuxa said about Ayrton "He needs someone to be with him 24 hours a day, and I need someone to be with me 24 hours a day." Both belived that once had Ayrton retired from Formula 1, they would have more time to spend together, and therefore, a marriage between the two of them was expected. Later in life, after Senna's death, Xuxa has declared many times her regret about not having had more time to enjoy her relationship with Ayrton Senna.

Ayrton Senna and Xuxa, going together to the Grand Prix of Brazil in 1989, at the Jacarepagua circuit, in Rio de Janeiro

At his funeral, Xuxa was seen very affected, next to the Senna family, who liked her not only because of her personality, but also because they thought Xuxa was the only woman Ayrton had ever loved and they respected his feelings. In his last interview for the magazine "Caras" in April 1994, Ayrton spent more time talking about Xuxa and his love for her, than he did about his current girlfriend at the time, Adriane Galisteu. He also said shortly before dying that "sometimes we cannot live our lives next to person we love". Many believe he was referring to Xuxa, although some others believe he was talking about Christine Ferracciu, his ex-girlfriend between the years 1990 and 1991. What is for sure is that he wasn't talking about his current "official" girlfriend, Adriane Galisteu, a Brazilian unsuccessufl model, who he paid to be with him.

Xuxa at Ayrton Senna's funeral, in Sao Paulo, May 5th 1994, surrounded by the Senna family. They were going to get married after he would retire from Formula 1

Adriane Galisteu, a 20 years-old woman from Sao Paulo, on the other hand, had been chosen by one of Ayrton Senna's friends, Braguinha, among all the events models present at the Grand Prix of Brazil in 1993, although Senna had liked another woman. But Braguinha insisted because he considered Adriane Galisteu as more manageable for the purposes he wanted her: have her as a regular companionship to Ayrton Senna. Ayrton had expressed his wish of having a regular companionship for the 1993 season, to help him deal with the difficulties of not being in a competitive car for that season. He wanted somebody who helped him "separate his personal and professional life". Galisteu would be paid on a monthly basis by Ayrton Senna to be with him 24 hours a day. 

She wasn't in love with Senna (as she admited in 2011 in an interview for the Brazilian television) but when she realised that she didn't have much work on her agenda as a model (which she admits on her book about Senna's life with her, launched in 1994, few months after his death), she accepted the offer that Senna made her: money in exchange for full dedication to him. By the end of his life, Senna had realised that Adriane wanted and expected from him fame and more money, and he was angry at her for posing in some very embarassing pictures in the magazine Caras, in March 1994. 

One of the pictures of Adriane Galisteu published in the Caras magazine, March 1994, that upset a lot Ayrton Senna

Few days later, he had made already his decision to break up with her and to no let her interfere with his public image, and he was intending to break up with her but still offer her  money after the Grand Prix of Imola 1994, where he sadly died, in a terrible accident, caused by the break of his steering wheel.  The Williams team have been condamned in the justice court, particularly Patrick Head, the Chief Engineer, for "omitted control".

Car designer, Adrian Newey, next to Chief Engineer at Williams, Patrick Head, who had been found guilty for omitted control in the second trial held in 2005 for the accident of Ayrton Senna

At the end his life Ayrton Senna gave an interview to the brazilian magazine Caras, where he revealed that Adriane Galisteu wasn't the right woman for him to get married, and talked more about his past relationship with Xuxa, than about his current official relationship to the model Adriane.

Senna didn't leave anything to Adriane Galisteu in his last will, which he updated regularly.

Five months after his death, Adriane Galisteu sold his entire private life to the press in a book called "My life with Ayrton Senna", edited in Brazil by the same company who owned the "Caras" magazine. She had signed a commercial agreement with the editorial house of "Caras" to get space in the media in exchange for telling Senna's life in a book and various interviews. The Senna family was aware of that and that's why she never was liked by Ayrton's family.

Adriane Galisteu, last Ayrton Senna's girlfriend, smiling happy only 5 months after his death, selling her book where she tells all the details of Senna's private life during 1993 and 1994

She sold also many details of Senna's life in several press interviews, all over the world, and finally, the year after, in 1995, she posed for Playboy Brazil, as Senna's last girlfriend, asking 200.000 US $ in exchange, to buy herself a luxury appartment and a BMW car. 

Adriane Galisteu posing for the pornography magazine Playboy, in 1995, using the name of Senna

Adriane Galisteu was paid by the magazine Caras to go to the Tamburello corner, at the Imola circuit, and pose for promotional pictures for her book about Senna''s private life in 1993 and 1994

She later changed her version and told that she did that to save her brother, sick with AIDS, but there is proof in a Brazilian magazine that she told she wasn't thinking about her brother when she did the photos for Playboy, but she wanted the money to buy an appartment. 

In an interview for the magazine Caras (which whom she had a commercial agreement to tell stories about Senna's life, in exclusive), Adriane Galisteu admits that she wants the money from the magazine Playboy to buy herself an appartment

The appartment she bought was a in the most luxurious part of Sao Paulo, in Jardims, and mesured 300 square metres. She sold the exclusive of her appartment also to the Caras magazine, which whom she had signed the previous year a commercial agreement: in exchange for exploiting Senna's private life for the press.

She got famous enough to sign a contract to be on television, her big childhood dream. Currently she is unemployed and has a bad reputation in Brazil because of her problematic personality. 

Adriane Galisteu cashed 400.000 euros and a BMW in 1995 using the death of Ayrton Senna

Adriane Galisteu, an unknown model from Sao Paulo, became rich and famous thanks to the death of Ayrton Senna

Posing naked for Playboy Brazil in 1995 as the last official girlfriend of Ayrton Senna reported a small fortune to Adriane Galisteu.

A year later after the death of Senna at the Italian circuit of  San Marino, in Imola, his last known girlfriend, Adriane Galisteu, an events model from Sao Paulo, discovered the big money thanks to a reportage of nude pictures for the Brazilian Playboy. Posing as the last girlfriend of the national Brazilian idol of Formula 1, Ayrton Senna, allowed the young woman of just 22 years old to cash an interesting amount of money: 400.000 euros. Together with that, she also received a BMW car from the magazine of Hugh Hefner.

The money received was used to buy herself a luxurious appartment in the most noble neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Jardims. Although in later years, she tried a more politically version of the facts to be known, saying that she wanted to use the money to help her sick brother, drug addict and infected with AIDS, the truth is that Adriane herself admitted in an interview in 1995 that she wanted the money primarily to buy a house.

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