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.