Georgina Rodriguez, the partner of football star Cristiano Ronaldo, has a troubled family history that contrasts sharply with her current glamorous lifestyle. Her father, Jorge Eduardo Rodriguez Gorjon, is a convicted drug trafficker who served ten years in Spanish prisons for cocaine and cannabis smuggling offences.
Now 23, Georgina is focused on building a perfect family life in Italy with Ronaldo and their daughter Alana Martina, as well as the footballer's other children. Ronaldo's mother, Dolores Aveiro, has referred to Georgina as a 'future daughter-in-law', hinting at possible wedding plans.
Court documents reveal that Rodriguez was jailed in 2003 for attempting to smuggle over £100,000 worth of cocaine from Spain to France. He received an 11-year sentence for cocaine trafficking and a subsequent two-year term for cannabis resin smuggling. He was released in 2013 and later extradited, preventing him from meeting his granddaughter.
Rodriguez's cocaine conviction involved a failed plot to deliver the drugs to an Italian contact near Nice. His accomplices were stopped by police, and the drugs were thrown from a car window. Despite attempts to suppress phone-tap evidence, he was convicted and fined €120,000.
For the cannabis offence, Rodriguez confessed and received a lighter sentence than the four-and-a-half years prosecutors sought. He served time in prisons in Zaragoza, Alicante, and Murcia between 2003 and 2013, with a brief conditional release in 2008 that was revoked after his second arrest.
