\n
Iglesias denied the accusations, writing on social media that: \u201cWith deep sorrow, I respond to the accusations made by two people who previously worked at my home. I deny having abused, coerced or disrespected any woman. These accusations are absolutely false and cause me great sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSpanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain\u2019s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n
An email seeking comment sent to a Florida attorney whose website says Iglesias is among his clients was not immediately answered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
The two women had presented a complaint to the Spanish court earlier this month, according to Women\u2019s Link Worldwide, a nongovernmental organization that represents them. The group said that the women were accusing Iglesias of \u201ccrimes against sexual freedom and indemnity such as sexual harassment\u201d and of \u201chuman trafficking for the purpose of forced labor and servitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
The women also said Iglesias regularly checked their cellphones, barred them from leaving his house and demanded that they work up to 16 hours a day, with no contract or days off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
When the complaint was filed in Spain, the organization said it had not reached out to authorities in the Bahamas or the Dominican Republic and didn\u2019t know whether investigations had begun in those Caribbean nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Iglesias has been among the world\u2019s most successful singers in the decades since his 1969 debut album, \u201cYo Canto.\u201d He has sold more than 300 million records in more than a dozen languages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
After making his start in Spain, Iglesias won immense popularity in the U.S. and wider world in the 1970s and 1980s, partly due to duets with U.S. artists including Willie Nelson and Diana Ross.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and in 1988 won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance for his album \u201cUn Hombre Solo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
He\u2019s also the father of pop star Enrique Iglesias.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain\u2019s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[372301,23918],"class_list":["post-2252225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-julio-iglesias","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prosecutors-Drop-Sexual-Assault-Complaint-Against-Julio-Iglesias.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252227,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252225\/revisions\/2252227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Spanish](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/69774fc02200004b406d88e9.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp)
<\/picture><\/div>\n