In Buenos Aires, power has its own initiation rituals. One of them is to appear at the right table, surrounded by the right people, at the exact moment when the rumor can no longer carry its own weight. Mauricio Macri knows this better than anyone: he has spent decades navigating that area where politics and the social world touch, overlap and feed each other. That is why it was no coincidence that the definitive whitewashing of his relationship with Dolores “Lola” Teuly did not occur in a press conference or in a studied post, but in an intimate dinner organized by public relations specialist Gaby Álvarez at Don Julio, the Palermo grill that for years has functioned as one of the favorite settings for Buenos Aires high society and its celebrations.
Don Julio is not only the best restaurant in Latin America, as enshrined in the 50 Best list in 2024. It is also a code. Whoever makes a reservation at their tables in Guatemala at 4699 knows that they are choosing a space where meat and signature wine coexist with controlled visibility: exclusive enough to shield intimacy, visible enough for the photo to circulate. Gaby Álvarez, the PR with a legendary career who knew how to manage the mega-events of the jet set in Punta del Este and who today continues to be a born articulator of the Buenos Aires and Madrid VIP circles, knows that balance like few others. Their dinners are always an operation of social engineering: the guest list is never innocent, nor are the meetings it encourages.
That night, Macri arrived with Lola Teuly with the naturalness of someone who no longer has anything to hide. The romance had been confirmed weeks before through a message that the former president himself sent to the driver Ángel de Brito – “we are getting to know each other, everything is very nice” – but one thing is confirmation by messenger and another is appearing together in front of a table of friends and acquaintances who in a few hours will comment on what they saw. Social whitewashing is always more forceful than media whitewashing, because it is what builds the story in the circles where Macri lives and cares to live.
Dolores Lola Teuly and Concepción Cochrane Blaquier
Lola Teuly is 46 years old, twenty-one younger than the former president, and a profile that deliberately contrasts with the exposure to which Macri subjects her just by appearing at his side. A businesswoman in the decoration industry—in December 2025 she launched Qi Rugs, her carpet brand—, mother of three children, discreet on social media to the point of having just over a thousand followers on Instagram, Teuly is not a stranger to the former president’s circle: she has known him for more than twenty-five years, when he attended her father’s wedding when Macri was still a man married to Bettina Menditeguy. The reunion that lit the spark was last March, on the birthday of also PR Leo Mateu, held at MARO on the Costanera. From there to the four-day trip to Paris there were only a few weeks. The relationship was formalized at the speed that Macri is known for when something excites him.
Dolores Lola Teuly
The separation of Juliana Awada, confirmed in mid-January 2026 after fifteen years of relationship and a marriage that included the presidency of the Nation, still resonates in the atmosphere. Those who frequent the former president’s entourage described the distancing as a silent wear and tear accumulated during 2024, aggravated by Macri’s international agenda at FIFA and the distance that this generated. The couple chose to spend last Christmas together before making their breakup public. Four months later, Macri arrived at Don Julio with Lola on his arm.
The night had its own socialite coda. Among those present was Concepción Cochrane Blaquier, the designer and international jet set figure who is the daughter of Dolores Blaquier and the Brazilian businessman Lair Cochrane, a close friend of the Casiraghis of Monaco and one of the most recognizable faces of Argentine high society when mixed with European society. Cochrane Blaquier is exactly the type of presence that gives an evening its certificate of belonging to the right world: her photo with Lola Teuly, taken that night, was the image that finished installing Macri’s new girlfriend in the circuit that matters. No institutional presentation is necessary when Concepción hugs you in front of the camera. That’s worth more than a magazine profile.
What happened in Don Julio condenses a logic that Macri never abandoned, not even in his periods of greatest political exposure: social life and public life are managed with the same tools, in the same scenarios, with the same intermediaries. Gaby Álvarez, who has organized events for figures ranging from entertainment stars to top-level businessmen, knows that a well-organized dinner can do what no official declaration can: naturalize, integrate, present. Lola Teuly was introduced that night. And Don Julio, with his parked provoleta and his weeks-long waiting list, was the secular altar where the former president’s new sentimental chapter received its social blessing.
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