True Facts: Christina Magnusson

1. Indecent proposal:

When we started divorce proceedings, we were awaiting legal documents to permanently stay in the US. I got mine, but she didn’t get hers. She started seeing a friend of ours, a divorced man with a daughter a year older than Alex. A smart gentleman, an American citizen, who was financially-strained. She asked the Court for a bifurcation, which would allow her to remarry without waiting for the divorce to be pronounced. On the day the bifurcation was granted, she had booked a church to get married right away. She asked the gentleman to marry her, and also told him that she would offer 1 MILLION DOLLARS to his ex-wife, also financially-strained, to “buy” their daughter from her… so that they could both have the perfect family! The gentleman’s ex-wife refused what she called the “insane proposal” flat out. Christina Magnusson doesn’t like to be told no, and as the gentleman turned down both proposals, he got excluded from her life. Later on, he came to me to tell me everything Alexander was going through, the brainwashing, the lies, the threats, and urged me to do something for this poor child.

2. The fiancé:

She was on a mission to find an American citizen to marry! She met a nice younger divorced guy in the community we used to live in Palm Desert. In a blink of an eye, they were engaged! The divorce was still not finalized. Trip to Hawaii, summer in Europe, Monaco, Stockholm…Nothing was spared to please him. I ended up meeting him, on a usual failed visitation. We talked for a while and he understood how desperate I was not being able to see my son. A few weeks after, he called off the wedding and reached out to me.  “Her immigration issues and the way she was pushing me to get married made me feel that she was using me” he said. He felt sorry for me and even more for Alexander. He said he got very dubious after the summer in Europe, where he got her undivided attention, meanwhile the poor child was totally left to his own devices. “One night, I got up to get a glass of water. Alex was warming up frozen meatballs in the microwave… It was 3am!” he told me. Alex was only 11 years old! Since she couldn’t come back to the US after the summer in Europe, having overstayed before, Alex flew back and stayed alone with his old grandmother and a maid for 4 months meanwhile she enjoyed life in Monaco and continued to deny my visitations requests. But what definitely turned her fiancé off, was her Christmas holidays plans. She hadn’t seen her child for 4 months, but instead of having him coming to Monaco, she had planned to fly her fiancé there and spend the full holidays with him. He also told me sadly ”she has planned everything for you to never see Alexander again”.

3. Ever thought about creating your own school?:

Christina Magnusson did!

Alexander was taken out of school, taken away from his friends, to study online as his mother said.

I asked the Court in Monaco to see proof of social activities, school reports, and I did some research on my own.

I found out that she had created a school, her own school, in her house in Palm Desert. A private school from Kindergarten to 12 grade. A fake school, unbelievable but true, probably for the purpose of making sure I couldn’t see Alexander by just going to his school… But why not use one of the many online school? Is he studying at all, or what are her plans for him? This has been my biggest torment in the last years…

She ended up closing the school and even gave up her residency in Monaco, so her lawyer could ask the Monaco Court to close the case since it no longer had jurisdiction in the matter.

4. Dogs like objects:

Christina Magnusson “loved” dogs, miniature dogs, mostly tea cups or even smaller poodles. She “loved” them like kids love a new toy. They play with it for a while and put it aside as soon as they get a new one.

She used to spend hours online, looking for puppies from breeders from all over the world, would buy and have them shipped to her. After a few months, she started looking again and bought new ones … Doggies ended up with maids or friends, and friends of maids. Alexander got so attached to these little dogs and constantly saw them replaced by new ones over and over again.

5. She chose alcohol over her family:

For months you heard us fighting over her bad drinking habits. I tried to avoid arguing in front of you, but she always put you in the middle of it. I just hope you’ll remember how great our life was before she started drinking and destroyed everything. She used to get up at night, go to the kitchen and drink, her breath reeked of alcohol when she went back to bed. My lawyer subpoenaed one of the supermarkets she used to go for groceries. She had bought 65 bottles of Liquor, mostly Vodka in 8 months in a single supermarket. What ultimately led to the divorce, is the night when half drunk she told you on the phone that I wasn’t your biological dad. You became hysterical, crying and screaming all over the house.  This is a scene no parent should ever have to witness. I was as shocked as you were and slowly managed to calm you down. Below is the email you wrote to her that night and the one you wrote a week after. Nothing would be the same after that night.

On February 19, 2015, at 9:02 PM:

“Dear Mama, I think it was a terrible choice made by you to say on the phone that Papa was not my father from birth and that you married him when I was one year old. Thanks a lot for being a big liar. This message comes from the heart. STOP THINKING THAT PAPA ONLY CARES ABOUT MONEY AND ALL THE REST OF THE SHIT YOU SAID BUT YOU DON’T REMEMBER DUE TO ALCOHOL. FYI I have emptied all of your Vodka from the bar and from the kitchen in the sink, and if you keep on buying it I will keep on pouring it out again. STOP DRINKING. Thanks for lying to me. Your very depressed son, Alexander Erik Magnusson Saglietti.”

On Feb 25, 2015, at 6:15 PM:

“Mama this is what I think. I think that you should stop drinking with Mormor. Then you should stop being fake. Then you should be honest and not tell lies. Then you shouldn’t say something bad about Papa on the phone and then text something completely different. Then you should be honest about exactly when you come. And stop fighting!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥

Don’t be like this 😈

Your son,

Alexander”

After this terrible February 19, your mom stayed for three weeks with her mom in our house in Palm desert, two hours away from us, and despite all your begging her to come to us, she didn’t. She even strongly refused for us to go there!

6. Reigning by instilling fear and threatening:

Threats to Alexander became commonplace in the last few months of our marriage. One day, after one of our fights, Christina left, jumped in her car and took Alexander with her. I went to the garage, opened the car door and asked Alex what he wanted to do. He got out of the car and came with me. She left furious. In the afternoon, she went to his room and started yelling at him.  “If you choose him, I’ll disinherit you, no more top private schools, first class traveling…” and she went on and on. I went up after she left his room. Alex had tears in his eyes and stayed in my arms for a while. He asked me “why does our family have to be like this?”. He was ten years old.

What I heard from the two men she tried to marry was even worse. They both told me that he wasn’t allowed to talk about me, not even pronounce my name. She got so mad at him when it happened. I had a visitation with Alexander a few days after his 11th Birthday. When I brought him back home, he was so happy and very excited about the birthday present I gave him: books of Rafa and Roger Federer, the two players he loved the most. The gentleman who was present, saw Christina rushing out of her room, half drunk and naked. She started screaming at him from the top of the stairs. He saw Alex’s face change from happy to terrified. She then went back to her room slamming the door.

7. A pathological liar:

It’s stronger than her, Christina Magnusson can’t help lying.

A few days before our wedding, we went to a notary for a prenuptial agreement. When the notary started with her date of birth, I corrected him. She took my hand and told me “that’s ok” and told him to proceed. When we left the office, she confirmed the date was right. It wouldn’t have made any difference to me, but why did she tell me she was 10 years younger? She lied to Alexander about her age too, telling him she was 32 when he was born. She lied about how Alexander was conceived and I obtained proof of it from her first ex-husband. She lied to the Court in Los Angeles, in Monaco, in Paris. Her whole life is a web of lies. She used and bribed people to lie for her… But worst of all, she lied and continues to lie to Alexander.

8. Maternal instinct? none:

After the divorce, I got contacted by Christina Magnusson’s ex-husband who is happily married and ended up living close to Los Angeles. He had tried to contact me in Monaco after he heard from our wedding. He showed me a few letters that he sent to me but I never got to see, letters where he was warning me about some aspects of her personality and what she was capable of. He told me that she never had a maternal instinct. She told him that the only reason she wanted a baby, was not to be left alone after her parents would die. That’s probably why she had nights and days nannies since he was born, nannies that I let go as soon as I got into her and Alexander’s life. I was the one cooking for him, getting up by night, when Alexander was sick or just crying, she slept with ear plugs and never got up. It also explains why she never went to any school show or sport activities, why she left us so often and for long periods of time to go and visit her parents. Finally it explains why she took him away from me, not caring at all about his feelings,  knowing that nothing could hurt me more than losing him. All his childhood memories, all the fun he had, life lessons he learned, everything is tied to me, and I hope that despite all her brainwashing and the therapy sessions she had him go through, he will remember it. I’m so worried about Alexander’s future. Will he be able to have his own life, or will she keep him close to her as her companion/helper, as she was for her parents?