This Saunders Lane home was the setting for scenes from Paramount+ new Lioness'spy series from the creator of the hit show Yellowstone. The Villegas home was one of several Maryland settings for the show, which is based on a real-life CIA program and follows a rough-around-the-edges but passionate Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.

Joe Zito and Silvia Sanchez and twins, Marc and Emma, moved to Avenel from Barcelona, Spain, in August of 2020 amid the pandemic. Joe is a US litigator. Silvia is from Spain and the twins were born in Barcelona, but the family had spent their earliest years in Bethesda and moved to Spain in 2016 to allow Marc and Emma to know their relatives there and develop a true understanding of both the US and Spanish cultures. They vacation during summers in the Mediterranean in Costa Brava, the northern coast of the Catalan region of Spain, where they sail, visit family and friends, and enjoy the region’s food and wine.

As an American and Spanish lawyer with a master's degree in personal styling and image consulting with one of the largest consultancies in Barcelona, she helps blend the fashion/style needs of professionals on both sides of the Atlantic. Her company, Estiletta Image (www.estilettaimage.com), helps individuals with their unique personal styling needs. Silvia is a strong believer in the power of image “both on how other people see you and how you portray yourself to others, and also on the effect that image has on oneself.”