Ex-IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, Who As soon as Known as Sushmita Sen “Higher Half”, Finds Love Once more

Lalit Modi, the primary chairman of Indian Premier League, on Thursday despatched social media right into a frenzy after saying that he has “discovered love once more”. 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. “Fortunate As soon as – Sure. However I received fortunate TWICE. When a 25 yr friendship turns to LOVE. It occurred 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 extra”.

“My without end love,” Lalit Modi responded to her remark.

In response to her Linkedin profile, Rima is an unbiased guide primarily based in Lebanon, with a background in advertising.

Lalit had dated Bollywoord actress Sushmita Sen for a short, and ever referred her as his “higher half” in an Instagram publish in 2022.

The point out of “higher half” by Modi led to a lot hypothesis, however the former cricket administrator later clarified in a separate tweet: “Only for readability. Not married – simply relationship one another. That too it would occur in the future.”

Earlier, Lalit Modi was married to Minal Sangrani for 27 years. In 2018, Minal died after extended sickness on account of most cancers. The pair had two children, 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 towards ex-cricket administrator N Srinivasan and his co-owned franchise Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK).

Whereas making startling revelations in a current interview, Modi stated that the IPL governing physique did “bid rigging” throughout public sale for the second version to ensure 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 “oblique fixing”.

“Select everything-auction rigging. I gave Flintoff to Srinivasan. Sure, we did it. No doubts about it; each crew knew about it. Srinivasan wasn’t going to let the IPL occur. He was a thorn in our Board. Sure, we informed all people to not choose (Andrew) Flintoff. Sure, that I did-because Srinivasan stated ‘I would like Flintoff’,” Lalit Modi talked about,” stated Lalit Modi on Raj Shamani’s YouTube podcast.