The rise and career of Roberto Giordano, the stylist who conquered the 90’s with his catwalk shows

The entertainment world is in mourning after learning the news of the death of Roberto Giordano. The celebrity hairdresser died at 75 years old for one heart condition when undergoing surgery. His remains will be cremated in the La Chacarita Cemetery.

He rise of the renowned stylist began in the ’90swhere he became famous for serving different entertainment personalities and for the parades which he organized in the spa cities of Pinamar, Mar del Plata and Punta del Este. They paraded along its catwalks. Valeria Mazza, Pampita Ardohain, Dolores Barreiro, Nicole Neumann and many other models were protagonists of those catwalks that usually had Giordano as presenter, usually accompanied by his friend Stella Maris Teté Coustarot.

The rise and career of Roberto Giordano

Giordano’s success exploded in the ’90s, when he established as one of the most powerful fashion entrepreneurs in the country. His ease in his public appearances, combined with the success of his hair salons, led him to organize parades which, over time, became a summer classic. So, Pinamar, Mar del Plata and Punta del Este They were the scene of Giordano’s events.

In addition to the renowned models, their shows also usually featured figures from all walks of life. From international actors, such as Robert Deniroeven local legends like Diego Armando MaradonaGiordano had special guests for those glamorous events that even occupied the prime time of Argentina’s air channels.

On November 27, 1995, during a superclásico played at the Monumental stadium, River’s barbarian attacked the hairdresser and threw it to the ground in the parking lot. As a result of this, the businessman spent two years without walking properly due to a fractured femur.

In the unfortunate event, with the idea of ​​avoiding the beating, the stylist appealed to his last name by holding “Don’t hit me, I’m Giordano!“. The phrase would become famous and would remain as a memory of the event.

The problems with Justice

The last years of the stylist’s career were marked by different problems with Justice. On August 12, 2002, in a raid on one of his premises for alleged evasion and “black” billing, the businessman exclaimed “Let’s go Bianchi, let’s go Boca still!” in the presence of journalists who wanted to know his opinion about his judicial situation.

Meanwhile, in 2007 the National Court of Appeals for Economic Criminal Matters confirmed a six-day closure sanction imposed by the AFIP. For its part, Justice dismissed him in a case for the crime mentioned above in the who would have evaded $6,335,881 in the payment of income tax and VAT from the period 2009 to 2012.

The businessman had been denounced by the AFIP as a result of the debt generated by their activity, but the judge of the Oral Criminal Economic Court 1, Karina Perilli, applied a modification of the criminal tax law that raised the minimum amounts of punishment.

In detail, the stylist was accused of presenting misleading affidavits in reference to payment of income tax corresponding to the fiscal year 2010 for the sum of $489,358.81 pesos, and the Value Added tax corresponding to the annual years 2010 and 2011 for the sums of $641,599.66 and $428,658.72, respectively, that is, a total of $1,559,617 ,19.

In addition, Giordano was also being investigated for an alleged evasion of payment of income tax corresponding to the fiscal period 2012 for $632,257.73, of the Value Added tax corresponding to the annual year 2009 for $673,432.32; for the fiscal year 2010 for $776,528.34; for the fiscal year 2011 for $1,289,257.27; and the Value Added Tax corresponding to the 2012 financial year for $1,404,793.15.

This last accusation was because Giordano was personally obliged to pay taxes but used intermediaries for the purposes of establishing the commercial companies Nilamar SA; Big Grands SA, ARIMIS SRL and Unidosr SRL.

In 2014, the businessman agreed with Justice a suspended prison sentence of two and a half years to avoid facing the oral and public trial against him for evasion of around $450,000 of pension contributions of their employees.