Shakira has reportedly jetted out of Barcelona by private plane for a holiday with her children before continuing to Miami for the start of their new life there.

Spanish media say the singer-songwriter left the Catalan capital around midday for an undisclosed location and will not return ahead of her move to Florida.

Catalan daily El Periodico described it as her ‘final goodbye.’

News of her departure followed earlier reports Shakira’s ex Gerard Pique had been left furious after being given days’ notice by the artist that she was heading to Miami later this week so their children could start school there on April 11.

Spanish showbiz website Vanitatis reported on Friday the singer-songwriter would be leaving Barcelona to start her new life in the States with her parents and sons Milan, ten, and Sasha, eight, before the end of this coming week.

Overnight Shakira experts Lorena Vasquez and Laura Fa, who report regularly on the mum-of-two for Catalan newspaper El Periodico, said the artist’s lawyer Pilar Mane had told Pique’s lawyer Ramon Tamborero in a formal announcement she was leaving definitively.

They said Shakira, 46, had phoned the former Barcelona defender to confirm the news.

They also claimed the two boys would start school in Florida on April 11, identifying the educational centre as Miami Country Day which is just north of the city and has a reputation as one of the best private schools in day for children their age.

Neither of the couple’s lawyers could be reached for comment.

Pique was said to be furious and in the dark still about exactly which day they will be flying to the States.

Fa and Vazquez said: ‘He is very annoyed because he has been told with very little time.

‘He disagrees with the children not finishing the school year in Barcelona.’

April 11 is the day US school kids will return to classes after the spring break.

The Barcelona-based journalists had identified April 1 as the date Shakira would leave Spain with her children after suspending earlier plans to travel at the start of the year because of the poor health of her 91-year-old dad William Mubarak.

That was before her mum Nidia Ripoll was hospitalised in the Catalan capital after a blood clot was found in her leg.

Shakira and Pique, who split last May after 11 years together, confirmed in November they had reached an agreement after a protracted negotiation which came to a head with a marathon 12-hour meeting with their lawyers. They signed the accord at a court in Barcelona the following month.

As part of the agreement Pique, now dating 24-year-old Catalan beauty Clara Chia, will spend holiday time with his children.

Shakira’s wish to move to Miami, where she used to live and part of her family are based, is understood to have been the principal sticking point in the former couple’s previous failure to strike an out-of-court settlement.

The artist, who has relatives and several close friends in Miami, owns a POUNDS 14 million mansion in the city she is said to have put up for sale in 2018 before removing it from the market a few months ago.

Late last month Spanish media claimed Shakira may have found love with a new man in Miami.

News website OK Diario said it had been told the 46-year-old mum-of-two met the mystery man several months ago before she penned her latest diss song targeting Pique and his new girlfriend Clara Chia.

The former Barcelona defender’s relationship with Clara Chia, who has just turned 24, emerged shortly after he and Shakira announced their split.

The singer-songwriter performed her diss track with Argentinian DJ Bizarrap, in which she fires poisoned darts at Pique and his new girlfriend, on the Jimmy Fallon late-night show last month. She went on to talk about her break-up with the former footballer.

Pique said in a subsequent interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais he was ‘very happy’ following the dramatic changes in his life which have included the split with Shakira and retirement from football.

He also shut down a question about Shakira in the interview but added: ‘Each parent has the responsibility to try to do the best for their children.

‘It’s about protecting them. That’s the work of all parents with their children. That’s what I’m focused on and that’s my job as a father.’

Pique’s lawyer said in February, in his first public comments about the couple’s divorce negotiations: ‘They have made a great effort for the good of their children, making sure they weren’t the protagonists.

‘Both of them have shown great intelligence.’

In a surprise interview with respected Catalan daily La Vanguardia, 74-year-old father-of-two Mr Tamborero admitted of the talks that resulted in the agreement: ‘It required seven months of negotiations.

‘The agreement was complex and required preparatory meetings.

‘And the decisive reunion before the signing lasted 13 hours.’

Shakira will have to return to Barcelona for a £12 million tax fraud trial but no date for the trial has yet been set.

She has denied any wrongdoing after being charged with six counts of tax fraud prosecutors say she committed between 2012 and 2014.

A source close to the singer said of her decision to move to Miami before the end of the school year, in quotes published by Catalan daily El Periodico: ‘Milan and Sasha have good grades and the teachers don’t see it as a problem.

‘The decision has been very carefully considered and Shakira feels very calm about things after the schools raised no objections.

‘If it was going to affect them negatively in any way, she wouldn’t have taken the decision to go to Miami now.’