The singer Julio Iglesias filed a lawsuit in the Spanish Supreme Court for “illegitimate interference with the right to honor and personal privacy” against the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda Díaz, and requested that she compensate him with 50,000 euros for moral damages.
Iglesias’ defense thus continues its legal battle against Díaz over statements made on her Bluesky social media account and on the program ‘La Hora de la 1’, on RTVE, last January, following the complaint by two former employees of the artist’s Caribbean mansions for labor and sexual abuse crimes, which was dismissed in Spain due to lack of jurisdiction.
“Chilling testimonies from Julio Iglesias’ former employees. Sexual abuse and a situation of slavery with a power structure based on permanent aggression. Thanks to the brave women and the journalists at @eldiario.es for reporting it,” wrote Díaz on Bluesky.
The lawsuit, to which EFE had access, demands that Díaz acknowledge that her statements constitute “an illegitimate interference with the right to honor” of Iglesias and that she retract them publicly, in addition to paying him the aforementioned compensation and the legal costs of the proceedings.
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Singer Julio Iglesias filed a conciliation lawsuit in February against the second vice president and Spanish Minister of Labor for the “insulting and slanderous” comments she made regarding the complaint filed against him for alleged sexual abuse crimes.
This complaint filed now with the Supreme Court comes after Díaz refused to retract these comments in a conciliation act prior to the filing of this lawsuit, held at the end of May.
As there was no conciliation, the next step was the filing of a criminal complaint against Díaz for the crimes of slander and libel in the Supreme Court, as she has parliamentary immunity for being a member of the Government.
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In parallel, the singer has filed a lawsuit in the Madrid courts for libel, slander, and a crime against moral integrity against several journalists from eldiario.es, the media outlet that revealed the existence of the complaints against Iglesias, including its director, Ignacio Escolar, considering that their reports contained “false and injurious” comments that sought to “undermine his public image” and “damage” his reputation.
The singer had been reported by two of his former employees for the crimes of human trafficking for the purpose of forced labor and servitude, sexual assault, bodily harm, and a crime against workers’ rights.
The National Court Prosecutor’s Office closed the investigation in January, considering that the requirements demanded by law for the Spanish justice system to investigate the complaint were not met, due to a lack of jurisdiction, since the reported events, which were also revealed by Univision News, were allegedly committed in Caribbean countries.
In the multi-year investigation published by those media outlets, former employees recounted labor abuses and assaults that include penetration, non-consensual kissing, and other forms of sexual violence.
