Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva | |
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First Lady of Brazil | |
In role 1 January 2003 – 31 December 2010 | |
President | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
Preceded by | Ruth Cardoso |
Succeeded by | Marcela Temer (2016) |
Personal details | |
Born | Marisa Letícia Casa 7 April 1950 São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil |
Died | 3 February 2017 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 66)
Resting place | Jardim da Colina Cemetery São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil 23°42′24″S 46°31′37″W / 23.7065676°S 46.5269805°W |
Citizenship |
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Political party | PT (1980–2017) |
Spouses | |
Children | 4 |
Awards | •
- Grand Cross of the
Order of Merit • Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic • - Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty • Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ |
Signature | |
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva ( née Casa; [2] [3] 7 April 1950 – 3 February 2017) was the first wife of the 35th and 39th president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, [4] and First Lady of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
Lula's first wife, Maria de Lourdes da Silva Ribeiro, died in labour in 1971 when Lula was in his twenties. [5] Marisa's first spouse, Marcos Cláudio dos Santos, [6] had died in 1971 during a robbery assault.
In March 1974, Lula had an illegitimate daughter, Lurian, with his then-girlfriend, Miriam Cordeiro. [7] The two never married. [8]
Two months later, in May 1974, Lula married Marisa Letícia Rocco Casa, a 24-year-old widow whom he had met the prior year. He had three sons with her, and adopted her son from her first marriage. [7]
On 24 January 2017, Marisa Letícia suffered a stroke. She died ten days later on 3 February, at the age of 66 at Sírio-Libanês Hospital. [9] [10] President Michel Temer declared three days of official mourning. [11] She was cremated the next day. Her ashes were interred in the Cemitério Jardim da Colina, in her native São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. [12]