Luis Miguel Dominguín

Luis Miguel González Lucas , better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín (born November 9, 1926 in Madrid , † May 8, 1996 in San Roque , Cádiz province ), was a Spanish torero and matador since 1944. He was the son of the well-known matador Domingo Dominguín (actually Domingo González) and adopted his famous stage name in bullfighting circles. Dominguín is considered an important torero and was also an outstanding figure in public life in Spain.

Career as a bullfighter

Luis Miguel Dominguín is considered one of the best and most popular matadores of the 1940s and 1950s. He made his debut as a torero ( novillero ) at the age of twelve in the Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon . His alternative , the elevation to the rank of "Matador de Toros", was on August 2, 1944 in A Coruña under Domingo Ortega . Apparently he had already fought a regular bullfight (not with young bulls) in Bogotá at the age of fifteen . On August 28, 1947, he was a member of the bullfight in Linares , in which the bullfighter Manolete was killed.

His arena rivalry with his brother-in-law Antonio Ordóñez was captured by Hemingway in Dangerous Summers. Hemingway and Dominguín met in 1953 at Dominguín's finca near Cuenca and later met several times.

He returned to the arena again in 1971 and officially ended his bullfighting career in 1973.

Private and social life

Dominguín married the Italian actress Lucia Bosè in 1955 . They met in the same year that Bose came to Spain to film the film Muerte de un ciclista by Juan Antonio Bardem . They had three children together, the well-known singer Miguel Bosé , Lucía, now a businessman, and Paola, who became a photo model and now runs an angel museum in Turégano , Segovia with her mother . In 1968 Dominguín and Bose separated. Dominguín remarried in 1987, this time Rosario Primo de Rivera, niece of General Miguel Primo de Rivera .

Looking back, Lucia Bosè described Dominguín as a Franquist . But he was always seen as a sympathizer of socialism and was friends with Pablo Picasso , among others . During his active time he took part in Franco's hunting parties outside the bullfighting season. He was known as a seducer and is said to have had affairs with Ava Gardner , María Félix , Lana Turner , Rita Hayworth and Lauren Bacall , among others .

He is portrayed among others in Jorge Semprún's novel Twenty Years and a Day on Post-French Society of the 1950s.

Individual evidence

↑ Lucía Bosé: “Mi marido era más franquista que Franco”. In: elperiodico.com . October 24, 2019, accessed March 23, 2020 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Dominguín, Luis Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	González Lucas, Luis Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish torero and matador
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1996
Place of death	San Roque , Province of Cadiz

[1] Lucía Bosé: “Mi marido era más franquista que Franco”. In: elperiodico.com . October 24, 2019, accessed March 23, 2020 (Spanish).