The second vice-president of the Spanish Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, responded Tuesday to singer Julio Iglesias that she will continue to defend working women, after he sued her for comments she made about him after he was denounced for sexual abuse in a case that was filed by the Prosecutor’s Office.
“I defend working women against anyone who violates their integrity and rights and I will not stop doing so. Complaints or no complaints, we women will no longer be silent,” the vice president wrote on her Bluesky social network account on Tuesday.
Iglesias filed a lawsuit against her for comments of a “libelous and slanderous” nature that Díaz made on a social network and on a television program in connection with the complaint filed against him for crimes of sexual abuse and which was filed by the Prosecutor’s Office.
In his letter to the Court of First Instance (Civil Section) of Madrid, the singer requests through his lawyer the celebration of a conciliation act in which the vice-president recognizes the damage caused, rectifies her statements (in the same media and in the same time slot) and compensates him.
Julio Iglesias denounces the vice-president
In his brief, Iglesias denounces that Diaz issued opinions with “clear prejudices of guilt” in which he assured that in the singer’s house “sexual abuses were committed, the workers were in slavery and their fundamental rights were systematically violated”.
“Chilling testimonies of Julio Iglesias’ former workers. Sexual abuse and a situation of slavery with a power structure based on permanent aggression. Thanks to the brave women and the journalists of @eldiario.es for denouncing it,” Diaz said on Bluesky.
On Spanish public television (TVE), Diaz said: “I believe that the investigation that we are learning about these days is terrifying, panic-inducing, concentrating all the human rights violations on women who were also in a position of extreme inferiority, extreme as human beings, extreme as workers of Julio Iglesias”.
The singer had been denounced before the courts by two of his former employees at his mansions in the Dominican Republic and Bahamas for the crimes of human trafficking for the purpose of forced labor and servitude, sexual assault, injuries and crimes against workers’ rights.
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Audiencia Nacional closed the investigation in January, reported Agencia EFE, on the grounds that it did not meet the legal requirements for the Spanish justice system to investigate the complaint, due to lack of jurisdiction.
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