Talk:Ruffa Gutierrez

(Alleged) Marriage in Nevada

I initially reverted the edits about Ruffa's alleged marriage because, at the time, I was unable to corroborate this information. However, while reading the Inquirer this morning, I chanced upon a news item which has this information. Therefore, I self-reverted myself and made extensive copyedits to this item and tried to make it conform to the biographies of living persons policy.

I have also deleted the links to the County Register search engine and the screencap of the results to prevent conflicts with the no original research policy; besides, the image shows only the search results, but not the actual marriage certificate (let's leave that to an investigative journalist). Do not, ever, restore those links/images, or I'll delete them myself

In this regard, may I please remind everyone that since Wikipedia is not a showbiz magazine or a gossip mill, please refrain from making edits that reek of anything like The Buzz, Showbiz Central or anything similar. I will not hesitate to revert, delete and/or rewrite such edits, as well as on other entertainment-related articles. Thank you --- Tito Pao 02:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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WP:BLP issues need to be addressed in this content removed from the article

I dont have time to properly review this now, but there are so many WP:BLP issues with this content that I cannot leave it in the article. If someone else wants to, they can begin to review and evaluate the sourcing and content to deliver appropriate article content that is not tabloid gossip.

removed from article pending thorough review for BLP issues

In 2003, she married Turkish businessman Yilmaz Bektaş in a wedding in Manila. She has two daughters named Lorin (born 2003) and Venice (born 2004) with him and resided with them in Istanbul, Turkey for a few years, though she frequently came back home to the Philippines to do commercials, television guestings and vacations.

In 2005, Gutierrez and her family was accused of tax evasion. Apparently, her organization, Ruffachild, failed to pay five million pesos that year. On May 8, 2007, Gutierrez and Bektaş announced their mutual decision to end their four-year marriage. On June 9 and 10, 2007, Gutierrez claimed on GMA-7's Startalk and ABS-CBN's The Buzz that she was physically tortured and abused by Bektas while in Turkey. She says it's the reason why she's divorcing him. Gutierrez revealed that she had been electrocuted in a bath tub filled with water, continuously beaten for 15 hours and locked inside a cabinet. Bektas admitted to slapping her once after learning that she was still married to her previous husband, but denies torturing her. Bektas accused Gutierrez of marital infidelity and claimed she was dating another man which she denied. Gutierrez, who converted to Islam upon her marriage to Yilmaz, has since come back home to her native Philippines and became a Pentecostal Born-Again Christian instead of reverting back to her original Roman Catholic faith.

Prior to their separation, Bektas reportedly sought the assistance of his lawyer and was able to determine that, according to marriage records from Clark County, Nevada, she was allegedly married in 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada to a certain Richard Daloia, an issue that was first reported in 2000 but which Gutierrez has neither denied nor confirmed.

On June 10, 2007, Gutierrez admitted on ABS-CBN's The Buzz, that she married Richard Daloia and belied Bektaş' claim that she had not filed a divorce petition to nullify her first marriage. She clarified that she alone filed the petition in 2000 but did not follow up the status of the petition. Clark County’s civil, family and probate records on their website, however, shows Ruffa filed the divorce petition only on June 1, 2007. No other record of a previous petition appeared.

Gutierrez sought the help of the Philippine National Police for escort protection following reported threats to her and her daughters' life. She reportedly receives threatening messages from Bektas. The PNP granted the request for one month.

On August 19, 2007, Guttierrez confirmed that she reconciled with husband Yilmaz Bektas. Yilmaz Bektas set a condition “I plan [to] speak with them but [in] the correct and perfect time. I’m not scared … of course, I am nervous and also shy. It’s not only Ruffa and my two kids I want back, I want all the family back, like Gutierrez family and Bektas family, have to be together.”

Although being married to Richard Daloia (making the Bektas-Gutierrez marriage illegitimate), on September 7, Ruffa admits that she realized it was time to file for the annulment of her marriage to Yilmaz.

On August 21, in Saksi of GMA NEWS.TV, Bektas emotionally had it - "My cousin is here bringing her ring. Ruffa's ring for the proposal. I want to propose to her again in to get married with me. I'm really looking for the correct time. I first want to get the blessing from her family," however, Annabelle Rama publicly announced that she doesn't want to meet Bektas.