Lalit Modi, the primary chairman of Indian Premier League, on Thursday despatched social media right into a frenzy after saying that he has “discovered love once more”. He launched his new girlfriend, Rima Bouri, on the event of Valentine’s Day 2025. Taking to Instagram, Lalit shared a number of footage with Rima, revealing that their 25-year-friendship has was love. “Fortunate As soon as – Sure. However I acquired fortunate TWICE. When a 25 12 months friendship turns to LOVE. It occurred twice. Hope it does for you all too. #happyvalentinesday to you all,” the 61-year-old captioned the submit on Instagram.
Rima additionally commented on the submit, saying: “Love you extra”.
“My without end love,” Lalit Modi responded to her remark.
In response to her Linkedin profile, Rima is an impartial advisor primarily based in Lebanon, with a background in advertising and marketing.
Lalit had dated Bollywoord actress Sushmita Sen for a short, and ever referred her as his “higher half” in an Instagram submit in 2022.
The point out of “higher half” by Modi led to a lot hypothesis, however the former cricket administrator later clarified in a separate tweet: “Only for readability. Not married – simply relationship one another. That too it’ll occur in the future.”
Earlier, Lalit Modi was married to Minal Sangrani for 27 years. In 2018, Minal died after extended sickness attributable to most cancers. The pair had two children, Aliya and Ruchir.
Lalit Modi had left India in 2010 amid investigations into tax evasion and money-laundering. He has been in London since then. In 2013, the Indian board banned him for all times after discovering him responsible of the fees.
Final 12 months, Lalit Modi had made critical allegations in opposition to ex-cricket administrator N Srinivasan and his co-owned franchise Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK).
Whereas making startling revelations in a current interview, Modi mentioned that the IPL governing physique did “bid rigging” throughout public sale for the second version to ensure Andrew Flintoff went to CSK. He added that this was achieved with a purpose to fulfil the want of Srinivasan. Modi additionally alleged Srinivasan and CSK of “oblique fixing”.
“Pick everything-auction rigging. I gave Flintoff to Srinivasan. Sure, we did it. No doubts about it; each crew knew about it. Srinivasan wasn’t going to let the IPL occur. He was a thorn in our Board. Sure, we advised everyone to not choose (Andrew) Flintoff. Sure, that I did-because Srinivasan mentioned ‘I would like Flintoff’,” Lalit Modi talked about,” mentioned Lalit Modi on Raj Shamani’s YouTube podcast.
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