Richard Gere's Wife Alejandra Offers a Glimpse at Their Stunning Madrid Home—7 Months After They Quit U.S. for Spain
Actor Richard Gere's wife Alejandra has shared a picturesque look inside their beautiful Madrid property, while revealing the extensive work the couple is carrying out on the grounds of their new dwelling.
'Pretty Woman' star Richard, 75, and his 42-year-old spouse have largely kept information about their new abode under wraps, having moved into the property at the end of 2024, shortly before the holiday season.
Their relocation to the European country came seven months after the actor first announced their plans to leave the U.S., telling Vanity Fair Spain in an April 2024 interview that he wanted his wife to have an opportunity to return to her home country and be closer to her loved ones.
In November of that year, the same month that they moved, the couple quietly sold their Connecticut estate in an off-market deal, having preciously purchased the dwelling from crooner Paul Simon for $10.75 million.
Since then, the couple—who relocated with three of their four shared children—have embraced their new lifestyle in Spain, appearing at numerous events in the country, including a recent gathering alongside Queen Letizia, while also focusing their time on championing a number of charitable initiatives.
However, Alejandra has now revealed that the A-list duo has also found some time to make changes to their Madrid home, with a recent video posted to her Instagram Stories capturing some of the work that they're carrying out in their new yard.
The video revealed an array of plants and flowers that were lined up in the garden waiting to be planted, with Alejandra captioning the clip: 'Working progress.'
Several large, leafy trees already fill the expansive space, providing plenty of shade against the heat of the Madrid sun; however, it appears the couple are planning to add plenty more greenery to their backyard in the form of shrubs, bushes, flowers, and additional trees.
Alejandra has previously proven herself to have something of a green thumb when she set up a vegetable garden at the couple's New York property, which they are understood to have retained as a U.S. base.
Images shared on Instagram by Alejandra in the summer of 2024 showed her working in a vegetable garden at a property that she tagged as being in the New York area, explaining that the family had first started the project during the COVID-19 pandemic.
'During the pandemic, we invested our time to create this incredible vegetable garden! We did it all together as a family!' she wrote.
Now, she appears to have transferred that love of gardening to her new home in Madrid.
Shortly after posting the clip, which also featured the family's dog running through the different potted plants, she shared another brief insight into her life in Spain in the form of a workout clip, which showed her going through an intensive routine engineered by professional trainer Crys Dyaz.
According to her website, Dyaz runs her own fitness company that is based in Alcobendas, a neighborhood of Madrid that is located near the tony community where Richard and Alejandra live.
In a recent interview with Spanish outlet, El Pais, Richard and Alejandra revealed that they had settled down in what the publication described as a 'chalet in the exclusive Madrid neighborhood of La Moraleja,' where some of the city's priciest dwellings are located.
During that same interview, Richard reflected on the changing political landscape in his home country, taking aim at President Donald Trump and accusing him of creating a 'violent, crude, and ignorant' world.
'If each of us were kind to each other, the world would be different and better. Not all of us respond to wisdom, but we all respond to kindness,' Richard told the publication. 'Even in the case of Trump, I'm sure there is something kind about him. People say he's charming in private.
'Yet the world he's created around himself is violent, crude, and ignorant. Many of the things he's doing we've never seen before.'
When asked whether he believes that Trump's second term in office could 'irreversibly change the values of U.S. society,' the actor admitted that he 'worries' about it—claiming that the president is 'cut off from' society's natural sense of empathy.
His comments closely echoed those he made at the annual Goya Awards ceremony in February, when he slammed Trump as a 'bully and a thug' while accepting the International Goya Award in recognition of his ongoing humanitarian work.
'We're all part of a universe of overlapping pain and sadness and joy. … I see this world that we're in now forgetting that,' he said at the time. 'This very foolish tribalism is starting to take us over, where we think that we're all separate from each other.
'And we have unfortunately elected officials that don't inspire us in the way that we want to be inspired. I'm coming from a place now … we're in a very dark place in America where we have a bully and a thug who is the president of the United States.
'But it's not just in the U.S., it's everywhere.'
Still, Richard admitted that there are plenty of things he misses about his life in the U.S.—specifically, the people he left behind, including his adult son, Homer, telling El Pais that he wants to ensure he maintains a close connection to his heritage in his home country, even if he's living overseas.
'I miss my family and friends. I was just in New York visiting my friends and my oldest son,' he shared. 'We went to Pennsylvania, to the small town where my father and mother came from, and we visited their grave. I need to somehow feel connected to my history, to my best friends, to stay in contact with all of it.'
But the actor noted that watching his wife 'blossoming' in Spain has been reward enough for making the move—explaining that he wanted to return the favor she did for him in upping sticks and joining him in the U.S. when they began their romance.
'Alejandra gave me six or seven years in the U.S.; she dropped everything to be with me and create a life together,' he said. 'But I could see it was important for her to come back, that she really missed her family and friends. She's blossoming here.'
Although Gere noted that he has never lived permanently abroad, he said that he has created a sense of belonging in his new Madrid dwelling by ensuring that he has access to the creature comforts he needs most—specifically his 'office, piano, guitars, and books.'
'In a way, I've taken my world and put it here,' he said.
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