Javier Santos’ fight to have it officially recognized that he is the son of Madrid singer Julio Iglesias has no end. From a very young age, the man has tried to contact the interpreter of I am a crook, I am a gentleman, Gwendolyne or With the same stone, but he always met with fierce rejection.
Due to the difficulties he encountered along the way, the Valencian decided to start a legal battle and in 2019 a court of first instance in Valencia ruled that he was the son of Julio Iglesias. The agency issued said resolution based on the DNA evidence that Santos provided, which confirmed that they were relatives. However, Iglesias appealed this sentence.
After much battle, the case ended its journey in the Spanish justice system when the Constitutional Court declared that it was “things already judged.” For its part, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg also ruled that it was not possible to reopen the case on the alleged paternity between Santos and Iglesias for the same reason.
Far from giving up, the man and his lawyer Fernando Osuna (who worked with Manuel Díaz to prove that he was the son of Manuel Benítez) have gone to the United Nations Human Rights Committee to try to find the recognition they have been seeking for years.
At the beginning of the year, Santos made public a letter in which he made it clear that he was not looking for fame or money, but that he just wanted to talk to his supposed father and start a new life with him. Furthermore, in said writing he asked for forgiveness if he had done things wrong.
The 46-year-old man expressed his willingness to reject material and any type of economic and hereditary benefit: “I don’t want money, the only thing I’m looking for is a meeting with you, to be able to talk and a gesture typical of the genetic relationship. I would be immensely happy if my father heard me.”
Semana magazine has had exclusive access to a new writing that the Valencian has written on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday, which he titled ”Thoughts of Javier Santos on the 80th birthday of Julio Iglesias.”
In the letter, Santos speaks in the third person and confirms that he is not going to throw in the towel in his fight: ”He has managed to demonstrate that genetics considers him a son, although justice has not yet (…) I don’t want money, the only thing What he is looking for is a meeting with his father, to be able to talk…”.
