Julio Iglesias, Sr.

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 singer Julio Iglesias Jr. and Enrique Iglesias.

In the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Iglesias Puga had placed himself on the side of the nationalists of the later dictator Francisco Franco. In a 2004 published biography Voluntad de Hierro ( " Iron Will " ), he reported not only about his eventful love life, but also the fact that his family was a close friend of Carmen Polo, wife of " Caudillo " ( leader ).

As a physician, Iglesias made ​​a rapid ascent. Earlier in his career he was one of the youngest gynecologists throughout Spain and co-founder of the former Women's Hospital in Madrid, whose department for infertility and family planning, he headed.

Iglesias Puga was kidnapped in December 1981 by the Basque terrorist group ETA, and was three weeks later freed by police.

In addition, he ranks as a great womanizer. The ten-fold grandfather leaves including a 2004 -born son, a daughter born in 2006 and his American wife Ronna Keith, whom he married in 2001. These two pregnancies were created by in vitro fertilization.

Ronna, a dark-skinned ex-model, he had met when he was 72 and she 24 years old. The couple married secretly in the U.S.; the relationship learned one months of that later. The public was only then informed of one year - after the death of the first wife of Dr. Iglesias, María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perinan ( * 1920, † March 2002 in Miami, USA). This marriage was divorced in 1983.

Iglesias sen. like appeared in TV shows, in the tabloid press, he received the affectionate nickname " papuchi " (Father ). " At its merits for Spain is no doubt ," said the world week in Zurich. "After the doctor has established arguably the world's most successful and wealthiest dynasty of singers and Schürzenjäger. "