Oscar Maroni, 72, is admitted to a nursing home and his children ask for guardianship

Oscar Maroni, owner of the Bahamas Club nightclub, has been admitted to a nursing home in the capital of São Paulo since December 27th. The businessman’s children filed a request for guardianship, which makes one of the heirs responsible for managing their father’s assets. Maroni is 72 years old and has four children: Aritana, Aratã, Acauã and Aruã.

The guardianship action was filed on January 9th. People close to the businessman claim that, since that date, visits to him at the nursing home have been restricted to family only. According to them, the businessman is incommunicado and unable to work.

In conversation with the F5Aritana, who is a former participant in the reality shows Masterchef Brasil (Band), A Fazenda (Record) and Power Couple (Record), said that her father is in the nursing home of his own free will and that he can leave whenever he wants.

“You know my father, do you think we would do something against his will? He comes and goes whenever he wants,” he said. “We chose a place close to the Bahamas just so he could go there and sort out his things. He doesn’t like to be far away.”

Maroni suffered a fall at the end of December and underwent surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. After being discharged from the hospital, he was sent straight to the nursing home — at first, temporarily, while he recovered from surgery.

“My father was forbidden by the doctors to stay alone at home because he cannot run the risk of suffering another fall. He doesn’t look like it, but he is an old man. Both my brother Aruã and I have already tried to take him to live with us or on the farm, but he refuses”, said Aritana. “[O local] It’s like a flat, it’s really cool”, says the daughter.

The eldest daughter also denied that there was a request for guardianship, a document to which F5 had access. She states that the only action she is processing in court concerns the inventory of her mother, Marisa Vaccari Maroni, who died in 2022. Marisa had shares in the Bahamas in her name.

KING OF THE NIGHT

Oscar Maroni owns a million-dollar asset that includes, in addition to the nightclub, a hotel complex and a farm in Araçatuba, in the interior of São Paulo, dedicated to beef cattle farming. He was also the publisher of Hustler and Penthouse magazines in Brazil.

Since November 2023, part of the Bahamian quotas has belonged to the Albert Einstein hospital, following the execution of a debt of more than R$50,000 owed by Maroni to the charity institution.

In the same month, the businessman was detained after crashing his BMW into three other vehicles. A few weeks later, he fell and hit his head, which required surgery.

When contacted by the report, Maroni’s lawyer, Leonardo Pantaleão, stated that he was unaware of both his client’s hospitalization and the request for guardianship. “I don’t know anything, you took me by surprise,” he said. The children’s lawyer, Karla Lemos, who filed the guardianship action, declined to comment.

The reporter contacted Oscar Maroni by phone, but was unable to contact him.

The Cora Residencial nursing home confirmed, via press office, that the businessman is “hosted” in one of the units. The report questioned whether he was voluntarily hospitalized, but received no answer.

“Cora Residencial announces that businessman Oscar Maroni is staying in one of our units and that, in compliance with the General Data Protection Law, he is not able to disclose any other information about our guest”, says the statement.