Carlos Tarajano is the ex-husband of Kelly Rutherford. Carlos Tarajano’s ex-wife is an American actress. She is known for her television roles as Stephanie “Sam” Whitmore on the NBC daytime soap opera Generations, as Megan Lewis on the Fox primetime soap opera Melrose Place (1996–1999), and as Lily van der Woodsen on The CW series Gossip Girl.
Carlos Tarajano: Bio Summary
| Full Name | Carlos Tarajano |
| Famous as | Ex-husband of Kelly Rutherford |
| Date of Birth | December 20, 1970 |
| Place of Birth | Puerto Rico |
| Age at time of death | 33 years |
| Date of death | November 2, 2004 |
| place of death | Unknown |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Ethnicity | mixed |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Children | Unknown |
Who was Carlos Tarajano?
Carlos Tarajano was born on December 20, 1970, in Puerto Rico and raised in Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. He comes from a Cuban heritage. Tarajano attended college in Boston and has lived in New York for about 11 years. Unfortunately, He passed away at the age of 33 years. Tarajano gained much of his fame from his marriage with the ‘Gossip Girl’ star Kelly Rutherford.
It was love at first sight when Carlos spotted the actress across a crowded restaurant. As Carlos told ET, “One of my first questions was, ‘Will you marry me?‘” According to reports, Tarajano had proposed to Ms. Rutherford with a three-carat emerald-cut diamond ring flanked by tapered baguettes.
Rutherford married Carlos Tarajano, a Venezuelan banker, at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills in June 2001, eight months after he proposed. On her wedding day, the bride wore a Carolina Herrera gown, and 140 wedding guests danced to salsa music in the Sunset Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel until the small hours of the morning according to the New York Times.
Their wedding was featured by Instyle magazine in their February edition. But by the time it arrived on newsstands, Rutherford had filed for divorce. InStyle, shared the story of the Rutherford-Tarajano nuptials with NBC’s ”InStyle Celebrity Weddings” program. One can only imagine what the couple was thinking on Jan. 22, as viewers watched Tarajano spooning cake into his bride’s mouth. Ms. Rutherford had filed for divorce 11 days earlier.
What was Carlos Tarajano’s Cause of death?
The couple got married in June 2001 and divorced in January 2002. Carlos Tarajano became fatally ill and while he fought for his life Kelly Rutherford was believed to have abandoned him. Three months after the wedding, Carlos collapsed while taking a shower and was rushed to the hospital. “Thank God she was taking her makeup off while I was talking to her,” he recalls per Geocities. “I nearly died in the shower.”
Carlos was diagnosed with a heart condition and depended on Kelly completely even just to tie his shoes or brush his teeth at the beginning. As he recovered, however, the man revealed that his new bride became more distant. Kelly Rutherford left her first husband Carlos Tarajano a few months after they married in June 2001. Her bags were packed, and out the door by the following January. Carlos’s repeated attempts to reconcile proved unsuccessful.
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“I’m in love with the old Kelly, not the Kelly that did this to me,” he told ET per Geocities. “If it had been the other way around, I would never have left her side; I promised in front of God to stay with her until death do us part.“
Carlos Tarajano passed away on November 2, 2004, at the age of 33. Though the cause of his death was not officially released, many believe that he died from his heart condition.
Kelly Rutherford moved on after the divorce
Carlos Tarajano’s ex-wife, Rutherford married her second husband, German businessman Daniel Giersch, in August 2006. She gave birth to their first child, son Hermés Gustaf Daniel Giersch, in October 2006.
While pregnant with their second child, Rutherford filed for divorce from Giersch on December 30, 2008. Carlos Tarajano’s ex-wife Rutherford and Giersch subsequently became involved in a child custody dispute over their son and their unborn child. Rutherford gave birth to their second child, daughter Helena, in June 2009.
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In August 2009, Rutherford and Giersch reached a temporary settlement of joint physical custody, in effect until April 2010. Rutherford also obtained a temporary restraining order against him the following month. Giersch’s U.S. visa was revoked in April 2012, after Carlos Tarajano’s ex-wife’s lawyer informed the State Department about issues about Giersch’s businesses, which led the Department to conclude that they had sufficient evidence to deport him.
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