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Bertie planned to start a season of concerts.
The popular Peruvian singer and actor Diego Bertie, 54, died this Friday after falling from the building where he lived in Lima, authorities confirmed.
Bertie was treated at the Casimiro Ulloa Hospital in Lima at 4:10 in the morning, the institution reported, after the firefighters transferred him from his residence in the Miraflores sector.
“We found it between a vehicle and the garage wall with multiple fractures in both legs,” said Mario Casaretto, general commander of the fire department.
According to Casaretto, the doorman of the condominium called Emergencies after hearing the impact of the actor’s fall.
Carlos Sánchez de La Puente, manager of the artist, indicated that “out of respect for the family and closest friends of the artist” he would not offer more details about the death.
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Diego Bertie began a long career as a singer with a university rock band in the late 1980s in Peru.
prolific career
Bertie began a long career as singer with a college rock band in the late 1980s in Peru.
Starting in the 1990s, the artist joined the world of television and starred in soap operas such as “Leonela, dying of love”, written by the Cuban screenwriter Delia Fiallo and broadcast in 1997, and “Lovers of the Full Moon” (2000-2001 ) and “La Ex” (2006), in which he shared the cast with Venezuelan actress Ruddy Rodríguez.
He had recently taken up music again and planned to start a season of rock concerts under the title “The good times“, with performances every Thursday in August.
Bertie, who had a 23-year-old daughter, also developed an extensive theater and film career that was recognized with international awards in Latin America.
The Ministry of Culture of Peru lamented the sad departure of the actor.
“We deeply regret the death of the actor and singer Diego Bertie, recognized for his work in film, television and theater. From the Ministry of Culture we express our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.”
His relationship with Jaime Bayly
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Bartie confirmed that he had had a relationship with the controversial writer and presenter Jaime Bayly, of whom he assured he does not have good memories.
At the end of May, Diego Bertie acknowledged for the first time in an interview with the journalist Magaly Medina that he was homosexual, a rumor that had haunted him for decades.
The actor said he was “a free, happy person without any roll” and that his daughter has known he is gay since he was 6 years old.
Bertie also confirmed that had had a relationship with the controversial writer and presenter Jaime Baylyof whom he assured does not keep good memories.
“We had a short, failed relationship. It was not a relevant relationship. The relevant thing was what he did with me. He wrote books, aired my intimacy, He exposed things that I had the right to expose when I wanted and at the time I wanted. He exposed me and violated my family, my daughter, my life, my career and did me a lot of damage, “said the actor.
And it is that in 1994 Jaime Bayly published the novel “Do not tell anybody”, that would give him fame throughout Latin America and in Spain, and whose protagonist – a young upper-class Peruvian – has a relationship with an actor.
As soon as the novel was published, the media began to speculate that the actor’s character was based on Diego Bartie, something that he did not confirm until last May.
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