Spanish gynecologist
This article is about Spanish gynecologist. For his son, the Spanish singer, see
Julio Iglesias
.
In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Iglesias
and the second or maternal family name is
Puga
.
Julio Iglesias Sr.
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Born
| Julio Iglesias Puga
(
1915-07-25
)
25 July 1915
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Died
| 19 December 2005
(2005-12-19)
(aged 90)
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Occupation
| Gynecologist
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Spouses
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Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat
(
m.
1943;
div.
1983)
Ronna Keith
(
m.
2001)
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Children
| 4, including
Julio
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Relatives
| Chabeli Iglesias
(granddaughter)
Julio Iglesias Jr.
(grandson)
Enrique Iglesias
(grandson)
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Julio Iglesias Puga
(25 July 1915 ? 19 December 2005) was a
Spanish
gynecologist
. He was the father of singer
Julio Iglesias
[1]
and grandfather of singers
Enrique Iglesias
and
Julio Iglesias Jr.
and socialite
Chabeli Iglesias
. Julio Sr. was nicknamed
Papuchi
, meaning "Daddy".
[2]
He helped to found the Madrid Maternity Clinic and became the head of its sterility, infertility and family planning unit.
Life and career
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Iglesias was born in
Ourense
. During the
Spanish Civil War
, Iglesias fought for the
Nationalists
led by
General Franco
. In 1943, he married Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat and the couple had two sons,
Julio
and Carlos. Maria and Julio Sr. divorced in 1983.
In December 1981 he was kidnapped by
Basque
separatist organisation
ETA
and held for two weeks, eventually being rescued by a police anti-terrorism unit.
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He became a fixture of gossip magazines, always ready to chat with journalists revealing information about his famous descendants. Such magazines always referred to him by his title and surnames,
Doctor Iglesias Puga
, to distinguish him from his son and grandson.
In the early 1990s, he met US citizen Ronna Keith. The couple married in 2001 in a secret ceremony witnessed by close family and photographers from a magazine.
On May 18, 2004, Keith gave birth to a boy, Jaime Iglesias, when Julio Sr. was 88 and Ronna was 40. Jaime's half-brother,
Julio
, was 60 years old at the time. Jaime's nephews were 31-year-old
Julio Jr.
and 29-year-old
Enrique
, and his niece was 32-year-old
Chabeli
. After Jaime was born in 2004, Iglesias rejected suggestions that Ronna was the driving force behind their decision to start a family. "At my age, a child is marvellous... I felt just like
Abraham
," he declared. "If people say I just did it for my wife, I don't take it as an insult, but the truth is I wanted to do it just as much as she did... My wife wanted to do it and we did it... It was an act of generosity towards her. I leave her part of my blood, of my life. I need her so much that I said to her, 'Here, this is what you wanted for when I am gone.'"
Shortly after announcing the arrival of her first baby, Ronna underwent
fertility treatment
in order to conceive again. IVF treatment is speculated to have been used for their second child.
Iglesias died in
Madrid
the morning of December 19, 2005, at the age of 90. Ruth Iglesias, his fourth child, and only daughter, was born on July 26, 2006, 7 months after her father died.
See also
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References
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External links
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