THE estranged marriage of former Ambassador to Mexico Francisco “Paqui” Ortigas III with Susana Madrigal Bayot has reached a point of no-return, with the wife finally suing her husband of nearly 44 years for concubinage.
The billionairess accused Ortigas of shacking up with her childhood friend and Assumption classmate, Ma. Antonia “Marian” Legarda, in a townhouse ironically co-owned by the wife and their children.
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As revealed in the complaint, the Madrigal heiress commissioned a private detective agency to confirm her nagging suspicions; a copy of the surveillance report and nearly a dozen surveillance photos were attached to the complaint, which was filed only last Friday before the Justice Department.
“I am filing this criminal complaint… against my husband, former Ambassador Francisco M. Ortigas III and against his current mistress, Ma. Antonia L. Legarda, for cohabiting and having sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances during our marriage,” Madrigal Bayot said.
When Ortigas, then 22, married Madrigal Bayot, then 20, on January 4, 1968 at the Santuario de San Jose in Greenhills, many thought that the union was a perfect match “because it was a marriage of wealth, a marriage between scions of landed families,” said the Madrigal heiress.
“The painful truth is that I married an abuser, a scrooge, an incorrigible philanderer and, worse, a pervert.”
The 63-year-old Madrigal heiress said she left the conjugal home in North Greenhills in July “to protect myself,” after Ortigas, 65, angrily denied the affair when confronted and subjected her to “insults, foul temper and baseless accusations.”
Ortigas in retaliation fired 10 drivers and maids loyal to the wife and “has prohibited me from entering our conjugal home… unless he is in the house, and has prohibited me from getting my own things,” Madrigal Bayot said.
Ironically, it was Madrigal Bayot who literally led her classmate into the arms of her husband.
Not only did she lend Legarda $150,000 when she was having immigration and financial issues in the United States, Madrigal Bayot even allowed Legarda the use of a penthouse in 8 Wack-Wack Condominium after her classmate was deported by US authorities.
After the penthouse was sold, Madrigal Bayot then invited her best friend to move into the Greenhills home and, in August 2008, pushed the jobless Legarda to become Ortigas’ live-in secretary in Mexico when Ortigas was appointed the country’s ambassador.
That was when the marriage rapidly went downhill, especially after one of the maids confessed to catching the ambassador and his secretary in the act.
