Devastated by grief, Tina Turner’s husband withdrew from public life after her death at their magnificent lakeside home in Switzerland.
But now Erwin Bach has found love again, 30 months after the world mourned the loss of the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll from Nutbush, Tennessee.
And the 69-year-old German music producer is clearly proud to show off his new flame, glamorous American widow Christina de Labouchere – as revealed in exclusive Daily Mail pictures.
Laden down with bags from ritzy designer stores in Italian fashion capital Milan, the pair looked every inch a couple as they browsed expensive boutiques.
Yet Bach, who wed Private Dancer legend Tina in 2003 after they were in a relationship for 26 years, was still wearing a ring on his wedding finger.
So far little is known about his new companion. The 60-year-old lives near the city of Gstaad and lost her philanthropist, French aristocrat husband, Pierre de Labouchere, in the same year Tina died aged 83. It’s believed the pair met in 2024.
When iconic singer Tina Turner passed away in 2023 at their magnificent lakeside home in Switzerland, her husband of 26 years, Erwin Bach, retreated from public life
But two years later, it appears Bach has found love with a fellow widower – the glamourous art patron Christina de Labouchere, who lost her philanthropist husband the same year
Laden with bags from ritzy designer stores, the pair looked every inch a couple as they strolled through Milan’s fashion epicenter
De Labouchere also serves on the board of trustees at The American University of Paris where her alumni bio describes her as ‘a patron actively involved in several art institutions in Switzerland’.Â
Now Bach has expressed his devotion after publicly revealing her at a party he hosted – at the $76million mansion he and Tina bought in 2021 in Stafa, on the banks of Lake Zurich.
He declared he was ‘grateful for his new love’ and ‘now I can be happy again’, also telling Swiss tabloid Blick: ‘She is not a public figure.’
De Labouchere is a ballet and opera fan while Bach says: ‘I’m more into pop, but we see that more as a complement than a contrast.’
The couple kicked off their Milan afternoon at the historic Cova pastry shop, a favorite of Italy’s high society since 1817, before looking perfectly at ease together and hinting at future plans with a stop at the upscale Armani/Casa home store.Â
Both were casually dressed and with scarves to ward off the chill, de Labouchere perched sunglasses in her hair as they spent most of the afternoon on retail therapy, including at the Italian luxury designer house Dolce & Gabbana.Â
Bach revealed his new love at a party at the $76million Stafa mansion he and Tina Turner bought in 2021 on Lake Zurich, saying he was ‘grateful for his new love’
The couple looked perfectly at ease together and appeared to be thinking about future plans with a stop at the upscale Armani/Casa home store
At another luxury store, Bach gazed lovingly up at his new girlfriend while they spoke as she looked around at the clothesÂ
The couple was all smiles and whispers as Bach, who sported a long gray mane of hair, carried her shopping bags on their stroll
The couple was all smiles and whispers as Bach, who sported a long gray mane of hair, carried her shopping bags on their stroll.
With their shopping complete, they headed back to their hotel before loading up the goodies into a silver Range Rover and driving off.
The relationship ‘coming out’ party to a wide gathering of friends was at the sprawling home originally bought as a weekend retreat by Tina and Bach.
Known as the Steinfels estate, it includes ten historic buildings, a pool and a boat dock.
It is close to lakeside Villa Algonquin in Kusnacht, which the couple rented and where the singer battled ill health and eventually died in May 2023 after a stroke and kidney failure. Bach donated a kidney to her in 2017.
After surviving her abusive marriage to singing partner Ike Turner, Tina and Bach found love and eventually became Swiss citizens.
Bach was pictured inside the Dolce & Gabbana fashion house which was ornately decorated for the Holidays
Both were casually dressed and with scarves to ward off the chill, while de Labouchere perched sunglasses in her hair as they spent most of the afternoon on retail therapy
Born Anna-Mae Bullock in 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee, to Zelma and Floyd Bullock, the singer overcame a turbulent childhood to become a musical sensation and legendary performer.
She won eight Grammys from 25 nominations and three lifetime Grammy Awards. Her final stadium concert was in Sheffield, England, in 2009.
Well-wishers festooned the outside of Villa Algonquin with flowers after her death, a tribute to the fact that she was loved by locals in the place she had made home for 30 years.
That home was 4,790 miles from Nutbush, Tennessee, which she immortalized in the rousing single Nutbush City Limits, with ex-husband Ike.
Instead of a mansion, her childhood home was a simple wooden house on a patch of land on the outskirts of the tiny community that still relies on cotton production for its prosperity.
Only a bare patch of earth now marks the spot.
With their shopping done, they returned to their hotel, loaded their purchases into a silver Range Rover, and drove off
Bach and de Labouchere spotted inside the silver Range Rover – the American primarily resides near the city of Gstaad nestled in the Swiss Alps
After surviving her abusive marriage to singing partner Ike Turner, Tina found love with Bach, and the pair eventually became Swiss citizens
Young Anna-Mae was forced to pick cotton like other neighborhood children because her father was one of the area’s dozens of small sharecroppers, farmers who gave part of their cotton crops for rent.
The family home was about half a mile from the gin factory that featured in the song, with the lyrics: ‘A church house, gin house/a schoolhouse, outhouse’.
Ironically, Turner credited her experiences in the cotton fields for pressuring her to strive for success. She told a PBS interviewer in 2007: ‘I hated the cotton field. There were those hairy worms crawling, the spiders.’
And in 1992 she said of cotton picking: ‘I dreaded those times. That’s the only thing that made me change my life. I knew I couldn’t do that.’
Cotton picking’s association with slavery may also have been a factor. Her great-great-grandfather Logan Currie was enslaved in the area.
Turner sang regularly at the Woodlawn Baptist Church, about four miles from the center of Nutbush, where her grandparents Alex and Roxanna Bullock were deacon and deaconess.
It was established in 1866 and the current brick building where Tina honed her voice was constructed in 1928. She also sang at the Spring Hill Baptist Church, which no longer exists.
When Tina passed away well-wishers and fans festooned the outside of Villa Algonquin with flowers after her death
During her illustrious career, Tina won eight Grammys from 25 nominations and three lifetime Grammy Awards
Her ex-husband Ike helped launch her phenomenal career, but their relationship quickly warped and ended in divorce after years of abuse
After the war, the sisters moved to Knoxville before the parents and children returned to Nutbush where Tina attended Flagg Grove Elementary School until the eighth grade.
Her mother fled her abusive marriage when Turner was 11 and her father married another woman and moved to Detroit in 1952. The three sisters went to live with their maternal grandmother in Brownsville.
When she was 16, Anna Mae went to live with her mom in St Louis where she hooked up with Ike Turner, who would become her first husband, help launch her phenomenal career – and eventually drag her down in an abusive relationship that ended in divorce.
However, Turner had learned resilience that saw her relaunch to superstardom from 1983 onwards. And her childhood schooling in Nutbush also undoubtedly helped to shape her determination.
