{"id":516734,"date":"2026-07-21T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/julio-iglesias-sues-spanish-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:26:39","slug":"julio-iglesias-sues-spanish-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/julio-iglesias-sues-spanish-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Iglesias sues Spanish vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The singer Julio Iglesias filed a lawsuit in the Spanish Supreme Court for \u201cillegitimate interference with the right to honor and personal privacy\u201d against the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda D\u00edaz, and <strong>requested that she compensate him with 50,000 euros for moral damages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iglesias&#8217; defense thus continues its legal battle against D\u00edaz over statements made on her Bluesky social media account and on the program \u2018La Hora de la 1\u2019, on RTVE, last January, <strong>following the complaint by two former employees of the artist&#8217;s Caribbean mansions for labor and sexual abuse crimes, which was dismissed in Spain due to lack of jurisdiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChilling testimonies from Julio Iglesias&#8217; 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,\u201d wrote D\u00edaz on Bluesky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit, to which EFE had access, demands that D\u00edaz acknowledge that her statements constitute \u201can illegitimate interference with the right to honor\u201d of Iglesias and that she retract them publicly, in addition to paying him the aforementioned compensation and the legal costs of the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/entretenimiento\/julio-iglesias-2\/\">Julio Iglesias to sue &#8220;elDiario.es&#8221; after they refuse to retract report against him<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Singer Julio Iglesias filed a conciliation lawsuit in February against the second vice president and Spanish Minister of Labor for the \u201cinsulting and slanderous\u201d comments<\/strong> she made regarding the complaint filed against him for alleged sexual abuse crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This complaint filed now with the Supreme Court comes after D\u00edaz refused to retract these comments in a conciliation act prior to the filing of this lawsuit, held at the end of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As there was no conciliation, the next step was the filing of a criminal complaint against D\u00edaz for the crimes of slander and libel in the Supreme Court, as she has parliamentary immunity for being a member of the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<\/strong>, the media outlet that revealed the existence of the complaints against Iglesias, including its director, Ignacio Escolar, considering that their reports contained \u201cfalse and injurious\u201d comments that sought to \u201cundermine his public image\u201d and \u201cdamage\u201d his reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Court Prosecutor&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer Julio Iglesias filed a lawsuit in the Spanish Supreme Court for \u201cillegitimate interference with the right to honor and personal privacy\u201d against the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda D\u00edaz, and requested that she compensate him with 50,000 euros for moral damages. 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