Julio Iglesias Jr.: “I hope Enrique's son will continue the family tradition and become a singer. The Iglesias family hopes that the son of Anna Kournikova and Enrique will not change the family tradition and become a singer Enrique Iglesias family and children

Julio Iglesias celebrates his birthday today. However, don Julio is known not only for his hits, but also amorous connections. And although Iglesias was officially married only twice, he managed to intermarry not only with the first persons of the Spanish establishment, but also with Russian sports ..

Today it is hard to believe, but many years ago, when Julio Iglesias was a fledgling youth, his vocal exercises terrified those around him. And the holy father Anselmo, in whose choir Julio tried to get a job, at the audition did not even let him finish the song: “No, no, no, dear. Singing is clearly not for you. I heard that you play football. Why don't you focus on sports?"

Julio followed the advice of the shepherd and soon made quite successful career. At the age of seventeen, he was already the goalkeeper of the junior team of Real Madrid. And if not for the tragedy, Iglesias would have been a famous football player.

... When the rescuers arrived at the scene of the accident, a terrible sight appeared before their eyes. The bright red Renault Dauphine lay upside down at the bottom of a steep ravine. The driver who remained conscious - he was Julio - said that he lost control, winding along the serpentine. His car rammed a concrete fence and fell off a cliff. Despite the deadly turn, all the passengers of the Renault - and two of his comrades were sitting in the cabin with Julio - were not badly injured. Iglesias got off with a few scratches.

Thanking fate, Julio continued training until ... he began to suffer from back pain. The examination showed that after the accident, a tumor began to develop in the spinal cord. And if you do not remove it, the consequences can be the most severe.

The operation lasted eight hours. The tumor was removed, but Julio, who came to his senses after anesthesia, found that he did not feel his legs. The doctors then honestly said: there are practically no chances that someday he will be able to walk on his own - at best, one in a thousand.

Biographers of Iglesias give two versions of the awakening of his vocal talents at once. According to the first, the orderly of the hospital where poor Julio was lying brought a guitar to the patient's room for fun - they say, let the guy have fun, what if even strumming on the strings can bring him to his senses? According to other sources, Julio himself asked to bring him an instrument - so that others would not hear his sobs. One way or another, soon the former football player learned to play his favorite Spanish instrument quite tolerably. During the day he wrote songs, and at night - so that no one could see him - he crawled around the ward, trying to feel his legs.

It took him three years to recover. But Julio Iglesias came out of this tragedy as an established artist - with his own repertoire and virtuoso mastery of the instrument.

Now it is difficult to say what exactly he bewitched millions of fans from all over the world. Unlike his colleagues, Iglesias always went on stage in a formal suit and white shirt, not allowing himself any free steps there. Apparently, he put all his passion into the song.

And women felt this passion. They say that his fans arranged an unspoken competition: who will outwit Don Julio more successfully. It was necessary to remain unnoticed as long as possible, hiding in his room. However, Iglesias still discovered another uninvited guest and ... stayed with her all night.

Perhaps that is why he put all his charms of a seducer into play, having met a strange beauty at the next party. The girl with chocolate skin and slanting eyes, when they were introduced, smiled sweetly and nothing more. Don Julio did not even notice the interest in her eyes - just polite concern. Later, when Isabel became his legal wife, he confessed: "I fell in love with her not for beauty, but for virtue."

In fact, everything was explained simply. Beauty Isabel Preisler was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She came to Madrid to improve her Spanish. Of course, the nineteen-year-old modest woman did not even know that her new acquaintance was a star of the first magnitude.

Already seven months after the first meeting, Julio and Isabel got married. They had strange marriage. Julio continued to seduce one beauty after another, just as furiously, adding to his Don Juan list every night. And Isabella was locked in the "golden castle" - don Juan was very jealous of his young wife, forbidding her even to look towards the representatives of the stronger sex. However, she did not grumble. And when well-wishers tried to tell her about the love affairs of a famous husband, she instantly stopped such conversations: she sincerely believed that a person who adheres to such strictness in relation to own wife, and he is not capable of treason. The truth was revealed later, when children already appeared in the family - the eldest daughter Maria Chabeli Isabel, and the sons Julio Jose and Enrique Miguel.

“I’m tired of Julio’s endless betrayals,” complained the offended Isabel to her friends. After her divorce from Julio, she married twice more. Isabel gave the Marquis de Grinon a daughter, Tamara, and in marriage to the Minister of Finance, Miguel Boyer, she had a daughter, Anna.

Lovely Filipina

However, the beautiful Filipina had to wait a long time for an official divorce from Iglesias. Their marriage was consecrated by the church, so after the break they continued to be considered husband and wife for many years. Even when Iglesias moved to America, he still remained a married man. Therefore, if you look at the situation from the point of view of lawyers, Isabel did not lie a bit to her children when, when asked where dad was, she answered: “He is on tour. And soon you will meet him.

And soon the children really moved to their dad in Miami. But sad events preceded this. Father Julio Iglesias - a successful gynecologist, member of the Medical Academy, Julio Iglesias Pug - was kidnapped by Basque terrorists, demanding a crazy ransom. The old man managed to return home alive and unharmed, without paying a penny. However, Isabel did not find a place for herself: it seemed to her that in Spain her children were not at all protected. Therefore, she, reluctantly, decided to send Mario, Julio and Enrique to America.

On the one hand, they started new life- limousines, a luxurious mansion, servants, private expensive schools. On the other hand, the whole trinity felt completely lost: their famous father continued to tour the world, almost never being at home.

Later, Enrique Iglesias, who became no less popular than his father, recalled that sometimes he sobbed at night from longing and loneliness. And it was for this reason that he began to write songs - in them he tried to throw out everything that had accumulated in his soul. Who knows: if Iglesias Sr. were more attentive to his children, Iglesias Jr. would not be on the stage now.

And not so long ago, another singer appeared in this star clan. Enrique's older brother, Julio Jose, who at first tried himself as an actor and fashion model, also turned his eyes to the stage. He has not yet won the laurels of his relatives, but he firmly intends to conquer the pop Olympus.

role model

For a long time, Julio Iglesias enjoyed his bachelor freedom. He continued to collect women's hearts, but none of his fleeting passions managed to stay with him for more than a month or two. Until the restless rake was finally captivated by a fashion model and fashion model from Venezuela, Virginia Siple. Together with Julio, she lived for five whole years. True, she could not persuade him to formalize the relationship. Julio was afraid that after the wedding, Virginia would immediately demand marital fidelity - and there are so many beautiful ladies which he has not yet conquered.

In a word, years later, Virginia, desperate to curb the obstinate temper of Julio, packed her things and left home. And soon another fashion model took her place - the Dutch beauty Miranda Rinsburger. It is believed that it was she who completely re-educated Julio Iglesias. Not only did he himself beg Miranda to accept his proposal to become a wife (and she for a long time refused), so even Iglesias stopped amorous adventures and turned into an exemplary father. In a marriage with Miranda, he had four children: two sons - Miguel and Rodrigo, and twins Victoria and Christina. By the way, the girls were born almost at the same time as Julio's first grandson. In 2001 his eldest daughter Chabila, who worked on American television, gave birth to a son. True, Julio Iglesias, who in all interviews repeated how he dreams of becoming a grandfather, was not present at the birth. He saw his grandson a few weeks after his birth.

Son of Enrique

Enrique Iglesias, younger son Julio and Isabel turned out to be not only as talented, but also no less loving than his father. He had affairs with Christina Aguilera and Gary Halliwell, models Samantha Torres and Elizabeth Shannon. There were even rumors that Enrique "lassoed" Whitney Houston herself. However, unlike his father (Iglesias Sr. once told the public that at least three thousand women had been in his bed), Enrique turned out to be much more secretive. He stubbornly convinced journalists that he was associated exclusively with all of the above ladies. friendly relations. And once he completely shocked his fans (and, of course, first of all, fans), declaring that in fact he was a virgin. That did not stop him from kissing passionately with Aguilera, not hiding from the cameras, attending concerts in an embrace with Halliwell, and later leading him down the aisle. By the way, even in relations with Kournikova, about which entire volumes of secular reports have been written, there are still blank spots. The couple does not disclose to the public whether there was actually a wedding in the Caribbean, about which all the newspapers wrote at one time. And only Iglesias Sr. does not tire of repeating in an interview how pleased he is with his Russian daughter-in-law and with what impatience he is waiting for the birth of his grandchildren.

Incidentally, despite young age, even before meeting Enrique, Anna Kournikova managed to be married. For only a few months, she bore the proud title of Miss Fedorova - her husband was the Russian hockey player, scorer of the Detroit Red Wings team, Sergei Fedorov. Then there were persistent rumors that Kournikova got married with another Russian hockey player, Pavel Bure. However, Enrique appeared on the horizon ... So the Russian star became related to the Spanish star. Therefore, we in Russia are watching the successes of the entire Iglesias clan with redoubled attention.