Roberto Giordanoknown in the artistic environment as “the celebrity hairdresser”, He died this Friday at the age of 75. Stylist and fashion reference in the 90s, the businessman managed to create a true empire with dozens of branches both in the country and abroad.
The businessman was hospitalized Mater Dei Sanatoriumlocated in the Palermo neighborhood, and He died after suffering a heart condition while undergoing surgeryas reported TN.
Giordano was sentenced this year to three years in prison for ”fraudulent tax insolvency and fraudulent bankruptcya sentence that was suspended due to his state of health. According to what has been reported, it will be held this Saturday at the La Chacarita Cemetery.
Furthermore, in 2022 it had been heart surgerywhere they performed a state-of-the-art catheterization. At that time, they had said that he was “weighing 60 kilos, very weak and very emaciated”and I didn’t want it ”no one sees it”.
Bankruptcy and prison sentences: the fall of Giordano
The author of the popular phrase ‘Don’t hit me, I’m Giordano!’who at the height of his popularity was the stylist of figures such as Mirtha Legrand and Pampitahad a resounding fall. In 2009, the Commercial Justice decreed his bankruptcy, but the hairdresser managed to convert it into a preventive bankruptcy and, in this way, opened a negotiation with his creditors.
However, in December 2010 said creditors – the Social Work of Hairdressing Personnel, the National Federation of Hairdressing, Aesthetics and Related Workers, the Hairdressers Union, the National Treasury and former employees of its commercial chain – They rejected the proposal, so the bankruptcy order was made..
In 2014after a judicial investigation that arose from a complaint from the AFIP, Giordano accepted a suspended prison sentence of two and a half years to avoid being subjected to an oral and public trial for alleged tax evasion. The celebrity hairdresser and his accountant Carmen Colachopio de Alemany – who agreed to a two-year suspended prison sentence – were prosecuted for the alleged omission of employee pension contributions for an estimated amount of 450,000 pesos.
Two years later, another setback: Giordano and eight other people around him considered “necessary participants” were prosecuted for the crime of “fraudulent bankruptcy” through “phantom” companies and front men and seized for 57 million pesos each. The case had been initiated following the complaint of the judge in charge of the bankruptcy, Julia Villanueva, who sent testimonies of the proceedings of that file to the criminal justice system.
After analyzing the elements provided by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the results of the investigations, the investigating judge indicated that there was “sufficient elements of conviction to prosecute Giordano for appearing to be insolvent that was unrelated to his economic reality.” At the same time, he stated that “the painstaking and elaborate ruse concocted by Giordano at the head had achieved its goal: to frustrate the rights of the mass of creditors.”
Finally, in 2024, Giordano was sentenced this year to three years in prison for ”fraudulent tax insolvency and fraudulent bankruptcya sentence that was suspended due to his delicate state of health.
”What Giordano did was, basically, create a series of fake companies and rubber stamps that he put in the names of acquaintances of his, mostly employees without financial capacity. Companies that he actually managed from the shadows. That is, he used front men. The objective was to hide 17 assets in these ghost companies to avoid losing them, since the AFIP was investigating and he knew it.”, judicial sources had explained.
The stylist would have used front men in order to create parallel companies, in which he had no responsibility on paper, but which he continued to direct in practice: ”Once he did all that, The company that he recognized as his own, ASPIL SA, was left empty, that is, only the shell remained.: without employees, without assets, without absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, he was still there accumulating debts, he did not pay taxes, he avoided paying social security contributions. If they tried him, he no longer had anything in his name, he had passed everything on to the trout companies. That’s the maneuver. The reality is that it is very common for this to be done, only he brought it to a paroxysm,” they concluded.
Source: Ambito
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