Barcelona president Joan Laporta is a multimillionaire all thanks to his careers in politics, football, and the legal system. Details on his net worth and salary explored.
Joan Laporta Estruch, better known as Joan Laporta, is the current president of one of the famous soccer clubs, FC Barcelona. Born in Barcelona, Laporta had been a staunch club supporter since childhood.
In 1997, young Laporta started a group named Elefant Blau (Elephant Blue). Following that, he began a campaign against the then president Josep Luiz Nunez, which culminated in issuing a vote of no confidence against him in 1998.
Previously, Laporta won the club’s presidential election in 2003 and served as its president from 2003 to 2010. He assumed office again on March 7, 2021, succeeding the former president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Here’s what we know about his net worth, salary, and how he makes his money.
What is Joan Laporta’s net worth?
Joan Laporta has accumulated a more than impressive fortune over the years. Currently, he has an estimated net worth of between $5 million and $10 million.
He accrued his fortune from his work as a politician (who served as MP in the Parliament of Catalonia between 2010 and 2012), businessman (currently the president of FC Barcelona), and lawyer with his own firm, Laporta & Arbós, which has a number of notable Spanish firms as clients.
His other sources of income include his endorsement deals, club salary, etc.
Words on the street have it that the Barcelona president once bribed former refereeing vice-president Enriquez Negreira. In the Negreira case, the previous timeline originally covered the period between 2013 and 2023, per SkySports.
He, among seven people, is being investigated over payments of £6.3m (€7.3m) as they have been charged and the case is still in court.
Laporta lives lavishly as he has been seen more times on yachts with ravishing young women than at events with his ex-wife.
Is Joan Laporta married or in a relationship?
Joan Laporta’s current marital status remains unclear. Hence, it is not known if he has a wife or spouse. Also, his relationship status remains “wild”.
Years back, Laporta was married to his now ex-wife, Constanza Echevarría, who he welcomed his three sons with. The duo separated in 2008 and finalised their divorce in 2010.
Journalist Pilar Eyre has alleged that Laporta and Constanza divorced because of continuous rumors of infidelity on his part. In fact, he branded the former Barca president as a “married man but with distractions.”
The ex-FC Barcelona boss Joan Laporta was reportedly dating a Brazilian woman named Flavia Cassoli while still married to his ex-spouse.
Per Okdiario, Cassoli, who met Joan Laporta when she was a waitress at the Hotel Arts, is the woman who broke his marriage. “Laporta is not fond of anyone. The press knew about our relationship, but he is a man of great power (…) he has a friend who looks for girls for his parties after the games. The president gave her an apartment very close to her and from the balcony they communicated with signs so that when she finished dinner she would go to Joan’s home. He also bought her a car. As surreal as it is true, always according to Massoli’s version“.
Other names of women he has dated since separating from his spouse include Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, presenter Simona Ventura, and María Lapiedra.
Most recently, Laporta was reportedly dating a woman named Sana Khouja, who is 35 years old. Back in 2010, when they started dating, she was only 22 years old.
At the time they caught the public’s attention with their romance, snapshots published by QMD magazine showed the pair kissing, having a few glasses of cava, and smoking cigars on a terrace in Barcelona.
The large age difference between the two is striking, and the former head of the Barça club is 26 years older than the woman of Egyptian origin.
Per a report by a Spanish online outlet, the two met during Khouja’s time as an FC Barcelona employee in the marketing department.
