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Shakira Calls Spain’s Tax Agency ‘Machista’: 5 Things We Learned From Her Op-Ed

In an op-ed letter on "El Mundo," Shakira tells her truth almost one year after settling $15 million on Spanish tax fraud case. What we learned.

Image Credit: JOSEP LAGO/AFP via GI Shakira starts off the letter by explaining that in 2011, she would often travel to Spain to have a “prosperous relationship” with her then boyfriend Gerard Piqué, a famed Spanish soccer player who was tied to the European country for work purposes. In the op-ed, she says the strategy contained a “sexist prejudice,” and elaborates: “If the singer had been an American man, had fallen in love with a Spanish woman and had visited her regularly, I find it hard to believe that the Tax Agency would have considered that he had an intention to settle down. In closing, the global star says there is more truth about her in her article than anything published in the media in 2023 — and though she might be judged by the tax agency officials, she wants her fans to understand that “my love for Spain and my dear Spanish friends and family still endures, but not everything is the same.

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