I have a different take on MT's work history oversees in the Middle East. Typically females who work in and around horse therapy groups are doing it as sort of a fun, volunteer activity because they enjoy horsey activities and gives them some activity
to do w/ horses and still help needy people.
My thoughts have always been that MT does go after serious
athletic guys who seem to have money.
The middle east is filled w/ wealthy sheiks and their families
who own and enjoy race horses both locally and in US.
My guess is she met one in US around the racing circles in
South Fl. and was invited to accompany him home to Middle
East and she could get involved in a volunteer position in horse
therapy. I believe she was a concubine for one of these wealthy
horse owners. Would also fit with her attraction to the hard driving, narcissistic, macho men who happen to appear wealthy.
The stint at ESPM was short term and came from her connection
w/ world class snow skiing through her ex baby daddy.
It seems she's good at meeting men and leveraging her romantic
affiliations w/ positions connected to these men.
Hmm.....
According to the LinkedIn profile and articles I've seen, after she graduated from university in Venezuela in 1998, she spent time in 1999 at the Cheff Center in Michigan, a well established equine therapy center:
Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center.
Then she from 2000 to October 2003, she was in UAE at Ghantood Racing and Polo Club (Abu Dhabi, UAE) where she worked in publicity (
https://www.grpc.ae/video-gallery-2017/). She was also at the Riding for the Disabled Association (Dubai, UAE) from Feb. 2001 to October 2003 where she did equine therapy (
).
Part of her role at the Polo Club was coordinating visits from several Argentinian polo clubs. She does not appear to be the only person in her family who has had connections to horse-related activities and Argentina. And Argentina has been referred to as the "mecca" of polo. Was she in Florida after Michigan and before Dubai? Was she ever involved in horse racing circles?
Then she went to work for the Cerro Castor ski resort in Argentina again in marketing and public relations. While working at the ski resort, she did had had the short stint with with the skiing show on ESPN Desportes, which was very much a PR/marketing type thing that helps show off the ski resorts in Argentina and Chile, so not all that surprising that she would have that opportunity.
It was three years into her time at Cerro Castor, that she went on the 2006 Florida trip with Gaston Begue, the former olympic skiier, who ran the resort. It was that trip where her daughter was reportedly conceived. Do we know if she knew or had a relationship with Begue before working at the resort? Or if it was something that developed while she worked there or even during the trip?
She apparently continued working with Cerro Castor for a total of nine years and split time between Argentina and Miami. The custody filing in Miami was in 2012, the same year she left Cerro Castor and started living full time in Miami, where her mom apparently had ended up.
While in Miami, she reportedly got married to a Paul Enrique Gimenez from around 2013 to 2016. Haven't seen much about him out there, maybe others have? Was he a hard driving, narcissistic, macho man who appeared wealthy? Did she leverage her romantic affiliation for a position connected to him? Wasn't that when she went into business with her sister and worked for Outsourced Management Group, which was run by two women?
I guess it's possible she was in Middle Eastern horse owner's concubine and continually on the prowl for wealthy men whom she could use to get jobs.
But it seems like coming out of school, she had an interest in horses and helping kids with disabilities, neither of which is surprising given her father was a pediatric surgeon and very involved in kids medical charities and the role of horses in South American culture. Also not surprising that equine therapy training at the Cheff Center in Michigan might lead to opportunities abroad, including in Dubai. She very possibly also had connections to one or more Argentinian polo clubs, which would have been attractive to the Ghantood Polo Club, which at that time, was only a few years old. Also not surprising that in the course of her work in publicity and with Argentina polo teams at the polo club in Dubai that she would end up getting an opportunity to have a PR/marketing position at the Cerro Castor ski resort, and liked that type of lifestyle. Also not surprising that after having her daughter she would then end up in Florida where her mom and sister were.