Jorge “Corcho” Rodríguez It is an eccentric by nature. Its history dictates it and also its present. All grandiloquent. Always surfing the largest, striking and promising waves. At least at the beginning, as if to be noticed although at the risk of drowning and, then, to give all tastes in the louder tides. If you are going to conquer a woman who is to Susana Giménezthe biggest diva on television, and if you are going to have a famous friend, among the many you have, to be Johnny Deppone of Hollywood’s most recognized actors. It is his DNA, his engine, that one of the most powerful men in the country returned, even if he has to change his daily agenda every so often to go around courts.
The arrival of the protagonist of “Pirates of the Caribbean” The country occurs in a year that will be convulsed for Rodriguez in terms of the judicial and, therefore, media. On April 7, the oral and public trial begins in Argentina for the case Lava Jatowhere he was prosecuted for the crime of payment of bribes to the Kirchner government (see box). Also for the same cause was accused of laundering money with the purchase of A helicopter in $ 1,715,000And although from the Brazilian justice they blocked the use of the evidence extracted from the servants of the company that involved it in the payment of coimas, “cork” remains prosecuted by the statements of the repentant. Other accused are Julio De Vido, José López and Roberto Barattato those who joined a friendship relationship.
Friends
The arrival of Johnny Depp To Punta del Este first and Buenos Aires after the close relationship they forged for two years, when a friend in common, photographer Ross Halfin, presented them in London. Fans of music, cinema and good living, soon coinciding in various places and began projecting businesses together. The first one revolves around the film “Modi”that the actor was presenting by Europe at the festivals of Rome and San Sebastián, which they went together, with the possibility that Rodríguez manages the distribution rights throughout Latin America, a business that would include him again in the world of cinema of The hand of one of the highest grossing actors in the industry. Recall that the seventh art is one of the passions of “cork” and would be a rematch after his first attempt with his company Network Lojo Entertainment SA with which he produced the successful “Patoruzito” and “Patoruzito 2”but he had a disagreement with Andrea del Boca With the strip “Save me Maria”co -production with José Luis Massa and San Luis Cinemawhen the actress denounced publicly that she owed her four months of salary. In those years the film’s preparations had begun “Fire tree”that never came and ended with crossed complaints.
Another bus Yellow Roseowned by the Argentine, was the musical. They were hours of sessions to assemble the model of two songs in which the American played the guitar and sang and “cork” seconded with his viola, a Gibson Les Paul, for which more than one musician would mortgage his home. Those demos were then recorded in The Power Studio rockthe recording studio mounted in the house of “cork” in Buenos Aires and one of the most complete on the continent.
But Rodríguez has another passion that he shares with his closest friends. The elaboration of wines. A few years ago, when Paul Stanleythe leader of Kiss, visited him in his study, proposed to make a limited edition wine with his name and only to sell in the most exclusive vital in the world. A luxury bottle stored in a lacquered box, as if it were a work of art. The same would do with Depp, although it remains to define whether it would go on sale or it would only be for personal gifts of the actor. It is worth noting that on one of the last trips made by the businessman to Europe with his wife Verónica Lozano And his daughter Antonia, bought the land of his great -grandfather in the town of Mogliano, in the Ancona region, in Italy. There they are developing a wine line under the Venanzo brand and olive oil with the Santa Lucia label that projects to market in Italy, Argentina and Uruguay.
Rockstar hedonism
Rodríguez has the aesthetics of a bon vivant and boasts of his status. He is a successful and motorized entrepreneur for his lobbist essence, who more than once had it in the eye of the storm. Towards the end of the 90s he was the head of the firm HARD COMMUNICATIONS SAin charge of managing the program phone contests “Hi Susana”and faced justice for an alleged embezzlement of funds that included an agreement with the Happy Foundation the children directed by Julio César Grassiyears later accused of child sexual abuse. “Corcho” was acquitted in that trial but were two long years between courts, statements and journalistic siege. In turn, he fell in love with Susana Giménez with an insistent shipping of yellow roses, which ended up nameing his mansion. This romance extended between 1998 and 2004.
Today “Cork” has her family strengthened with the television driver Verónica Lozano, with whom they had her daughter Antonia and is fully dedicated to her parallel energy business, real estate developments and investments, while planning a project within the scope of the pole that He would perform on the courts he has inside the Yellow Rose property. Among his daily luxuries, “cork” features his sporting activity playing pole with his friends Pablo, Gonzalo and Facundo Piereswhile it gives free rein to his musical side with his band Winterland. His pride is his guitar collection, among which are those of Paul Stanley, Freddie King, Rory Gallagher and Pappo.
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