She hasn't been much seen by neighbors recently, nor has she attended services at the Santa Maria Soledad Torres church. The local press has said she "lives like a nun," avoiding social contact and has a phobia about politics. The company she keeps is limited to her service staff and physiotherapists – the latter on account of a couple of falls she has suffered.
The one-time president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, has been living in seclusion in her villa 30 km northeast of Madrid, Spain for four decades now. She may well be spending her 90th birthday on February 4 in quiet contemplation of her eventful past.
From nightclub dancer to Juan Peron's secretary
Maria Estela Martinez Cartas was born in 1931 in La Rioja, the youngest of six children. She discovered her passion for dance early on. Aged 20, she joined the dance troupe led by Cuban Joe Herald and toured the nightclubs of Latin America under her stage name Isabelita Gómez.
