The singer Julio Iglesias is discreet while his state of health seems worrying, according to the recent declarations of a loved one. Here is everything you need to know about the Spanish Crooner.
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva, better known as Julio Iglesias, does not seem in very good health. It must be said that the singer, born September 23, 1943 in Madrid, is now 81 years old … Here are his secrets.
The state of health of Julio Iglesias currently seems very fragile since he suffers from osteoblastoma – a rare benign bone tumor – according to information from his friend, journalist and presenter Carlos Herrera, who spoke in the show Poniendo Las Calles Last March. “”The problem is in his spine and that caused him many disabilities. He suffers from a progressive decline“He said.
Julio Iglesias today would have pain in the lower body. “”From the waist, it’s like I was 500 years old“, he would have said according to Carlos Herrera whose words are reported by COPE.
Where does Julio Iglesias come from?
Julio Iglesias comes from a Spanish Catholic bourgeois family, his father was a gynecologist and his mother was a housewife; On the kindergarten side, he also has origins of Puerto Rico. In addition, his family is linked to the Spanish nobility since his uncle was the Marquis of Perinat.
In his childhood, Julio began a career in football as a goalkeeper among young people in Real Madrid. But, in parallel, he studied the right to Madrid.
What accident has changed the life of Julio Iglesias?
At 19, Julio Iglesias managed to join the Real Madrid reserve team but was the victim of a serious car accident in 1962. Julio Iglesias will have consequences: a compression of the spine will make him paralyzed from the legs for 1 year and a half. His football career stops suddenly, he resumed and ended his law studies in the 1990s.
Nevertheless, during his long convalescence, Julio Iglesias learns to play the guitar, which gives birth to his passion for music. Once back on foot, the young man learns English and sings in pubs in England. It was here that he saw his first love story with Gwendolyne Bollore, a French student. A song for her, Gwendolynewill become famous.
What are the known songs of Julio Iglesias?
In 1970, Julio Iglesias participated in the Eurovision competition and finished 4th, interpreting Gwendolyne. The interpreter sings in several languages: in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and Galician. In 1975, the title Manuela the international propel.
Among the tubes of Julio Iglesias: I haven’t changed,, Poor devils,, ME OLVIDE DE VIVIR (Resumption of I forgot to live by Johnny Hallyday) or Where my bohemian… in total, it would have sold 250 million records around the world according to the Guinness World Records.
What do we know about the privacy of Julio Iglesias?
Julio Iglesias had several women in his life. He married Isabel Preysler in 1971 and had three children with her: Chabeli, Julio Jr. and the singer Enrique Iglesias. Due to the latter’s marriage, he is the stepfather of the former tennis player, Anna Kournikova. The couple, who lives in Miami, had two children and Julio had denied the rumor that they had never seen the latter. “”The legend says that I have not met them. I know my grandchildren by heart, they are very cute. In my granddaughter I see a lot of iglesias, in my grandson plus the Russian side. Everything is transmitted, genetics is magical“He had told Televisa Espectáculos.
In 2010, the Crooner remarried with the Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger, the mother of his five other children: Miguel, Rodrigo, the twins Victoria and Cristina and Guillermo. We also lent him romantic connections with Priscilla Presley, Brooke Shields or Diana Ross … A real man to women, Julio Iglesias also had some concerns with justice because of this. In 2019, Javier Sanchez-Santos was officially recognized as the singer’s son born of a link between the interpreter and dancer Maria Edite Santos.
Julio Iglesias and money: did he defraud the taxman?
In 2017 and 2021, Julio Iglesias was cited in business Paradise Papers And Pandora Papers. A leak of documents which concern personalities who would have been guilty of fraud and tax escapes via screens companies. The singer, who according to the Miami Herald would have several properties in Florida, never publicly commented on these cases.
Note that his fortune is estimated by Celebrity Net Worth $ 600 million.
