In 2021, Julián Muñoz managed to get out of prison after being diagnosed with a “serious and incurable illness.” A disorder that freed him from prison, where he was serving a sentence for his corruption crimes. Three years later, his state of health has set off all the alarms.
The former mayor has been admitted to a Marbella hospital for 15 days due to respiratory problems. Next to him, his daughter Elia and his ex-wife, Mayte Zaldívar. “He feels bad, nothing new,” said the mother of his daughters, with whom he has regained a cordial relationship.
The condition of Isabel Pantoja’s partner is complicated. Muñoz has suffered respiratory failure, which is not helped by his heart problems, as reported by Pepe del Real in Let’s see. The journalist says that the former mayor has not experienced any evolution, quite the opposite.
“During these years he has improved his quality of life, but any ailment becomes more complicated,” adds the journalist, who recalls that the former mayor has been very delicate for many years. Muñoz himself explained after his release from prison that he had been evaluated by doctors and forensics, and his life prognosis was short.
As has become known in recent years, the former mayor of the Andalusian city has “all his arteries affected” and has several stents, small tubes that expand and allow blood circulation to be restored in vessels and arteries that have become obstructed; three of them in the coronary artery and two in the legs.
During his stay in prison, Julián Muñoz discovered that he had suffered a stroke. He realized it when his classmates began to ask him what was wrong when he spoke. “They told me that they didn’t understand me and I told them that nothing was happening to me,” he revealed in 2022. “There they detected that he had suffered a stroke.”
However, this was not the only health problem he had during his stay in prison. “She weighed 64 kilos. I became diabetic, I became deaf, I had a heart attack… A disaster.” Finally, the judge granted him the third degree because the doctor predicted “a risk of death of more than 50%” due to all the pathologies “that he suffered from.
Since his release from prison, Julián Muñoz has dedicated himself to living, staying in a discreet background. The former right-hand man of Jesús Gil has rarely appeared on television, and he dedicates his time to doing community work in the province of Málaga.
“I have to do community work and I cannot leave the province of Malaga. I have 7 years left of this. October 29, 2028, that will be the day of my absolute freedom, until then I remain a prisoner,” he explained two years ago. years, insisting that his ultimate goal was to try to live in peace.
