Ayrton Senna’s ex-girlfriend loses legal battle over authorship of work about racing driver

The São Paulo Court has ordered Adriane Yasmin, the ex-girlfriend of racing driver Ayrton Senna (1960-1994), to pay R$11,000 to writer Malu Magalhães. The amount may change depending on the update. According to the lawsuit, she omitted Malu’s authorship in the book “Minha Garota”, released in 2019 and which recalls intimate moments of their relationship, which occurred when Adriane was still a teenager.

According to Debora Sztajnberg, the writer’s lawyer, her client was hired to write the book, and Adriane only paid part of it and released the work as if she had written it. An appeal is possible.

In contact by telephone with the F5writer Malu Magalhães celebrated the decision. “I was able to regain my professional dignity. It’s a legal battle that has been dragging on since 2020. Work ennobles and dignifies, even more so when we win in court, so it’s a threefold ennoblement,” she said.

“I was wronged, I worked hard. I didn’t write a biography of Senna or Adriane, but a biography of the couple during their four years of relationship. I simply died to the world, abandoned my family, had to go to São Paulo, left clients to work exclusively with her. I stayed for almost a year and only afterwards did she say it hadn’t worked out well,” she adds.

When contacted, Adriane claims that Malu did not write the book nor did she have the final file. And that she was trying to “assassinate my reputation”.

“She is already a creditor in a lawsuit for moral and material damages that she lost, with a final judgment. In an attempt to fully execute the contract signed for R$15,000, she received R$2,500 from the judge because she understood that, despite being far from having written my book, she did ‘something'”, he says.

The book “My Girl” has more than 600 pages and recalls the dating phase, when Adriane was 15 years old, and Senna, 24. She was never exposed by him, who at the time was still starting to follow his path and saw his routine turn crazy with fame, travel, harassment from photographers and fans and million-dollar contracts.