Issue No. 1928
16 - 22 June 2022
COSTA DEL SOL • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
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OLIVIA VALERE, the owner of iconic Marbella club Babilonia Palace died aged 76 at her home in Paris on Wednesday, June 8. The businesswoman, known as the Queen of nightlife for more than four decades, and with clubs in Paris and Marbella, reportedly died after a battle with stomach cancer. Tributes to Olivia have flooded in from across the Costa del Sol community. Martyn Wood of Big M Productions told the Euro Weekly News: “She was an expert at attracting celebrities visiting Marbella to her club Babilonia Palace (more commonly called Olivia Valere’s disco). “Back in the 90s it was THE place to be seen and to get a dancefloor side table cost mega bucks, BUT if you sat there everyone saw you. She was a close friend of Prince and he had his own private area within the club. “When we were filming a
OLIVIA VALERE: Was known as the Queen of nightlife.
programme about her life hosted by Maurice Boland in her home, we had to move the set as she had ponds full of frogs and we couldn’t hear what they were saying for the croaking, she thought that was hilarious. “She was a very shrewd businesswoman and spotted opportunities where others didn’t, but at the same time she was a sublime hostess mixing effort-
lessly with everyone.” Tributes to the businesswoman also flooded social media, with one Twitter user saying: “Olivia Valere, the queen of the night in Marbella, the queen of the discotheques, has just died… a couple of months ago I saw her for the last time… she was already ill, a pity. A Myth of Spain and Andalucia has died. “Rest in Peace Olivia.”
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