Overview
- Iglesias posted Instagram screenshots of WhatsApp exchanges with the two former employees and asserted the messages disprove their accusations.
- The Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional is running reserved pre-investigative diligencias to determine competence and whether to proceed to formal charges.
- Prosecutors have declined to admit the defense at this phase, and Iglesias’s lawyer renewed requests for the complaint while reserving a constitutional appeal.
- The January 5 complaint, supported by Women’s Link Worldwide, alleges sexual assaults, coercion, and labor exploitation in 2021 at properties in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
- Iglesias’s counsel seeks immediate dismissal for lack of Spanish jurisdiction, as media coverage intensifies a public dispute over evidence, including a report about an OnlyFans account linked to one complainant.