The Chamberí penthouse Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Alberto González Amador had shared went on the market as the Madrid regional president moved to Puerta de Hierro in August 2026. On 6 November, El Mundo’s supplement La Otra Crónica reported that the couple had split after about five years together; their relationship became public in May 2021. The report described the separation as the result of prolonged deterioration and repeated friction, rather than a single triggering event. Tensions had reportedly built for months, but the legal proceedings against González Amador were not established as the reason for the breakup. Neither Ayuso nor González Amador had publicly explained the decision.
The breakup came amid legal proceedings involving González Amador, while Ayuso remained president of the Community of Madrid. He was accused of omitting €350,951 in corporate tax for the 2020 and 2021 financial years, allegedly using invoices prosecutors considered false. The allegations also covered commercial-document falsification and a continuing accounting offence, as well as alleged membership of a criminal group. These were accusations, not findings of guilt.
The case reached the oral-trial stage in September 2025, when Carmen Rodríguez-Medel, then judge of Madrid Investigating Court No. 19, ordered the trial to open. When El Mundo published its report, the case was awaiting a hearing date at Madrid Criminal Court No. 19, presided over by María Lourdes Platero. The prosecution and the State Legal Service sought three years and nine months in prison, alongside a fine. The popular accusations brought by PSOE and Más Madrid sought five years.
The proceedings also became linked to a separate controversy over the disclosure of confidential information concerning the tax investigation. Spain’s Supreme Court disqualified former State Prosecutor General Álvaro García Ortiz over the unlawful disclosure of reserved information connected with the case. The controversy followed claims by Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, about a possible agreement between González Amador and prosecutors. The reported procedural account described the sequence of the proposed settlement differently from Rodríguez’s claims.
A separate investigation examined an alleged concealed commission González Amador was said to have paid to Grupo Quirón executives in connection with favourable treatment for his businesses. Madrid Investigating Court No. 19 was handling that case separately, under Judge Antonio Viejo at the time. Quirón holds healthcare contracts with the regional government. The alleged commission remained under investigation, with no judicial finding establishing it. Ayuso’s wider political environment also included a separate Madrid Assembly disciplinary case over remarks by Más Madrid deputy Jimena González, covered in Assembly proceedings.
The regional government had also put a separate penthouse on Paseo del General Martínez Campos up for auction for €6.7 million after reversing its acquisition through Planifica Madrid. The property had not found a buyer when El Mundo published its report.
