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Galisteu’s HBO Max Documentary Surfaces Disputed Senna Claims and Unpublished Playboy Images

The series relies on first-person accounts after Senna’s family and Xuxa declined to participate citing contractual commitments.

Overview

  • Adriane Galisteu’s series Meu Ayrton: Por Adriane Galisteu premiered on HBO Max this week, recounting her relationship with Ayrton Senna.
  • Testimony in the documentary alleges Senna’s home phone was tapped for months and that a dossier of recorded calls was delivered to him days before his death, a claim not independently verified in the coverage.
  • Participants say Senna listened to the tapes and discussed them with Galisteu, while portraying his family as more alarmed by the material.
  • Galisteu recounts being kept away from the family area at Senna’s wake in São Paulo and says Xuxa remained beside the driver’s parents.
  • Galisteu says Senna intervened to halt a 1993 Playboy spread, and a fan-archivist reports finding five previously unseen photos from that shoot in her personal archive.