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Lalit Modi, the primary chairman of Indian Premier League, on Thursday despatched social media right into a frenzy after saying that he has “found love again”. He launched his new girlfriend, Rima Bouri, on the event of Valentine’s Day 2025. Taking to Instagram, Lalit shared a number of photos with Rima, revealing that their 25-year-friendship has changed into love. “Lucky Once – Yes. But I got lucky TWICE. When a 25 year friendship turns to LOVE. It happened twice. Hope it does for you all too. #happyvalentinesday to you all,” the 61-year-old captioned the publish on Instagram.
Rima additionally commented on the publish, saying: “Love you more”.
“My forever love,” Lalit Modi responded to her remark.
Based on her Linkedin profile, Rima is an impartial marketing consultant based mostly in Lebanon, with a background in advertising and marketing.
Lalit had dated Bollywoord actress Sushmita Sen for a quick, and ever referred her as his “better half” in an Instagram publish in 2022.
The point out of “better half” by Modi led to a lot hypothesis, however the former cricket administrator later clarified in a separate tweet: “Just for clarity. Not married – just dating each other. That too it will happen one day.”
Earlier, Lalit Modi was married to Minal Sangrani for 27 years. In 2018, Minal died after extended sickness as a consequence of most cancers. The pair had two youngsters, 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 yr, Lalit Modi had made severe allegations in opposition to ex-cricket administrator N Srinivasan and his co-owned franchise Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK).
Whereas making startling revelations in a latest interview, Modi stated that the IPL governing physique did “bid rigging” throughout public sale for the second version to verify Andrew Flintoff went to CSK. He added that this was accomplished with the intention to fulfil the want of Srinivasan. Modi additionally alleged Srinivasan and CSK of “indirect fixing”.
“Pick out everything-auction rigging. I gave Flintoff to Srinivasan. Yes, we did it. No doubts about it; every team knew about it. Srinivasan wasn’t going to let the IPL happen. He was a thorn in our Board. Yes, we told everybody not to pick (Andrew) Flintoff. Yes, that I did-because Srinivasan said ‘I want Flintoff’,” Lalit Modi talked about,” stated Lalit Modi on Raj Shamani’s YouTube podcast.
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