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Jorge Arantes - Biography
Jorge Arantes is a Portuguese television journalist. He was married to J. K. Rowling. J. K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling), is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
Joanne met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found they shared an interest in Jane Austen. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford), was born on 27 July 1993 in Portugal.
The couple separated on 17 November 1993. Biographers have suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, although the extent is unknown. In December 1993, Rowling and her then infant daughter moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be near Rowling's sister with three chapters of what would become Harry Potter in her suitcase.
