Miguel Sousa Tavares

He first married in Estoril on 7 April 1973 and divorced Mariana Espírito Santo Bustorff Silva (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 9 December 1951 - 1 January 2001), daughter of António Sérgio Carneiro Bustorff Silva and wife Ana Maria da Anunciação de Fátima (de Morais Sarmento) Cohen do Espírito Santo Silva (daughter of Ricardo Espírito Santo and whose maternal grandfather was Sephardi Jewish), and has two children: Pedro Bustorff (Silva) de Sousa Tavares (born 17 April 1975), who by Sofia Barciela Borges has a son Miguel Barciela de Sousa Tavares (born Lisbon, 10 December 2007); and Rita Bustorff (Silva) de Sousa Tavares (born Lisbon, 19 May 1978), wife in 2002 of her cousin Ricardo Espírito Santo Bastos Salgado, son of Ricardo Salgado and wife Maria João Leal Calçada Bastos, by whom she has one son and two daughters.

He married secondly and divorced Laurinda Alves Nunes Fernandes (born 1 December 1962), fellow journalist and head of list candidate for the Hope for Portugal Movement to the 2009 European Parliament election in Portugal, daughter of José Nunes Fernandes and wife Helena Maria Alves, by whom he has a son: Martim Alves Andresen de Sousa Tavares (born Lisbon, 1991).

He divorced for the third and alone since 2009 Cristina Pinto Basto Avides Moreira, daughter of Miguel de Viveiros Avides Moreira and wife Helena Elisabeth Júlia Ferreira Pinto Basto (Noblemen of Coat of Arms), without issue. Miguel Sousa Tavares invested in Espírito Santo Group about two million euros in participation units of the ES Liquidez fund, in a total of five bank movements made throughout the year 2013. Sousa Tavares did not know. "I have never, with my knowledge or authorization, been an investor in BES and GES products."^[2]