Atila Altaunbay, the former husband of Grace Jones. Altaunbay’s ex-husband is a model from Jamaica, performer, songwriter and actress. The year 1999 was the time Jones placed 82nd on the VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll In the year 2008 she received an honoured with the Q Idol Award.
Atila Altaunbay is an Turkish Muslim model, singer and bodyguard who gained many attention following his wedding to the most popular Jamaican-American model Grace Beverly Jones also known as Grace Mendoza. The two lovers were wedding on 24 day of February in 1996. The wedding that caused a uproar at first was not a long-lasting affair until they split up however, they didn’t officially divorce.
Altaunbay has been a mystery after his marriage, so it’s been difficult to keep track of the man. However, here’s an overview of some information about his life.
Altaunbay worked as a pizza delivery man within Belgium and later was an officer in the Bodyguards for Jones during the time of Jones. While Atila Altaunbay was born and raised in Turkey as well as being of Turkish descent He grew up and lived the majority all of his time in Belgium.
He wasn’t only a model and a singer and actor, he was also a part of several films. Atila Altaunbay was featured in numerous stage plays, but his first big screen appearance was when he played the lead role in the film “Mind Games”. Before meeting her ex-wife Jones, Atila Altaunbay was taking singing lessons. He has a stunning voice and was able to sing at weddings.
How did these two lovers meet? Like I said, Atila worked as a bodyguard for Grace Jones before they finally began to fall in love. They first met at a party in Belgium where Atila resided. They were wed on the beach in Rio de Janeiro after Grace’s performance during the Carnival celebrations in 1996. Grace Jones was said to cause a stir when her bodyguard was present at the carnival.
Grace threatened to perform an unintentional striptease during her performance following her refusal not to put on the official T-shirt that was supposed to allow her access to an exclusive box at the Sambadrome theater.
Around 50 guests took part in Atila Altaunbay as well as Jones the wedding ceremony, which was held at an exclusive home and was conducted by an Presbyterian pastor.
After the wedding, they went to a gym to exercise while planning travel plans for New York for their honeymoon. Grace Jones’ father, in contrast they were married in their home with their families in Syracuse.
The couple did not have children together.
Prior to and following Atila Altaunbay, Grace Jones was not married. Grace was involved in a variety of high-profile relationships throughout the decades.
She has been in relationships with several boyfriends. She even having a child with one of them but she never got married to any of them.
There was talk of her wedding with Chris Stanley but she debunked the claims in her memoir of 2005 and said that they had did not have a relationship for more than a couple of years.
Atila Altaunbay as well as Grace Jones ended the about seven-year union on the 7th of April, 2004. But, Grace maintained that she was unable to find her former bodyguard to dissolve him legally, however, like to their view they have divorced.
Grace Jones and Atila broke their relationship after Atila took out an axe at her during a dispute they had. Atila is believed to be shy and disliked his attention.
Being rather private, and seeing his wife get enough attention took an emotional toll on Atila. Atila was jealous of the amount of attention Grace was receiving from the boys around her and this caused the argument, fight and then a breakup.
It is believed that Atila was unaffected by Grace’s former boyfriends, including Paulo whom Grace was a mother with.
Grace Jones stated that Atila cut her throat as a show of jealousy during their fight and, following that, the couple left and returned home to his family. He has been inaccessible since.
Atila Altaunbay had been 21 when he married Grace Jones.
Jones as well as Atila both knew that she was older than him, as they were both in their mid to late 40s when they met, but she didn’t realize how much older until they completed the paperwork for their wedding.
