Overview
- The Madrid Supreme Criminal Court ruled that Spanish justice is not competent because the alleged offenses occurred exclusively outside Spain.
- Prosecutors closed the Madrid case without investigating the facts, citing a lack of territorial or personal ties to Spain.
- Two former household employees filed complaints alleging sexual coercion, human trafficking and bodily harm during 2021 work at villas in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
- The women are not Spanish, had not traveled with Julio Iglesias to Spain, and had previously testified as protected witnesses.
- Iglesias, 82, has publicly denied the accusations and hired a leading criminal defense lawyer, and any further inquiries would fall to authorities in the jurisdictions where the events were alleged.