Julio Iglesias Puga
Julio Iglesias Puga (born July 26, 1915 in Ourense , † December 19, 2005 in Madrid ) was a Spanish gynecologist , father of the singer Julio Iglesias and grandfather of the singers Julio Iglesias Jr. and Enrique Iglesias .
Life
In the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Iglesias Puga sided with the nationalists of the later dictator Francisco Franco . In a biography Voluntad de Hierro ("Iron Will") published in 2004, he said that his family was close friends with that of Carmen Polo , the wife of the Caudillo (Führer).
As a medical professional, Iglesias had a rapid career. At the beginning of his career as a doctor, he was one of the youngest gynecologists in Spain and co-founder of the former women's clinic in Madrid, whose infertility and family planning department he headed himself.
Iglesias Puga was kidnapped in December 1981 by terrorists from the Basque underground organization ETA . After three weeks the police released him.
From his first marriage to María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perinan there were two sons. The marriage was divorced in 1983. He met his second wife Ronna Keith, a dark-skinned ex-model, when he was 72 and she was 24 years old. The couple secretly married in the US in 2001; the family did not find out about it until a month later and the public was not informed until a year later - after the death of his first wife, María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perinan, who died in Miami in March 2002 . A son born in 2004 and a daughter born in 2006 come from his marriage to Ronna Keith.
In his biography, Iglesias sr. about his eventful love life. He liked to appear on TV shows. He was nicknamed papuchi ( little father) by the rainbow press . In 2004, the journalist Peter Burghardt wrote in Weltwoche : “There is no doubt about his merits for Spain. After all, the doctor founded the world's most successful and wealthy dynasty of singers and philanderers there. "
Works
- Voluntad de Hierro. Biography, 2004
Web links
- Obituary in the Times (English)
- Ana López-Varela: El dramático secuestro que mantuvo en vilo a Julio Iglesias (ya toda España) , Vanity Fair , January 17, 2017 (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-372204/Julio-Daddy-dies-90.html
- ↑ http://www.weltwoche.ch/expenses/2004_22/artikel/amorrr-amorrr-amorrr-die-weltwoche-ausgabe-222004.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iglesias Puga, Julio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ourense |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 2005 |
| Place of death | Madrid |