Cristiano Ronaldo, the world’s highest-paid athlete, met Spanish model Georgina Rodríguez in 2016 while she was working at a Gucci store in Madrid. At the time, she took the bus to and from work, but on the day they met, Ronaldo waited outside after her shift and picked her up in a Bugatti, a gesture that left her co-workers stunned.

That chance encounter grew into a romance that lasted more than nine years. In 2025, Ronaldo proposed with an oval-cut diamond estimated at 35 carats and valued between $3 million and $5.5 million. The couple is raising five children together: Cristiano Jr., twins Eva and Mateo, Alana Martina, and Bella Esmeralda.

It’s one of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings ever, and a love story that started with a bus ride and ended with a Bugatti.