Personal and Family Life
Known for his discretion, amicable character and charm, the ambassador had many famous friends, including the rock musician Mick Jagger, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and the actress Greta Garbo. Walter Moreira Salles died in 2001, at Araras, district of Petrópolis, in Rio, of causes not disclosed by his family.
His four sons are Pedro Moreira Salles, current president of Unibanco; filmmaker Walter Salles; documentarian João Moreira Salles; and publisher Fernando Moreira Salles.
Salles was married three times, to Helène Matarazzo, the mother of Fernando, whom he divorced at the age of 28; Eliza Gonçalves, the mother of Pedro, Walter and João, and his wife until the early 1970s; and Lúcia, whom he married in 1986.
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