Gretchen Barretto, popular Filipina actress

Gretchen Barretto (born March 17, 1969) is an actress from the Philippines. Gretchen is the eldest of the Barretto Sisters with Marjorie Barretto and Claudine Barretto. She is currently in a much publicized relationship with Filipino billionaire businessman Antonio "Tonyboy" Cojuangco. They have one child called Dominique. Barretto recently released a CD entitled "Unexpected" consisting of classic love songs.

Talk that Gretchen, the beautiful common-law partner of billionaire Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco, 55, was carrying on a romance with Rodolfo “Dody” Puno, executive director of the Department of Public Works and Highways, began to be whispered about in the middle of the last year and began leaking through the tabloids toward the end of the same year.

Even when the Dody-Gretchen story was getting hot, and Tonyboy was said to have heard about it from his own sister, who in turn had gotten first-hand reports from her trusted friends, his first instinct was to back Gretchen. Reportedly, he told his family to stay away from this. To his closest friends, he reportedly said: “Let’s just wait for her to get over it.” Until recently, that is. This was when Tonyboy supposedly gave Gretchen an ultimatum to drop this liaison or leave his home for good. Now comes the highly reliable report that Gretchen has broken up with Dody.