"I deny that I have abused, coerced or been disrespectful to any woman. These allegations are completely false and deeply sadden me," the singer writes on his
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The women state in a police report that they were sexually assaulted and forced to work in slave-like conditions in Julio Iglesias' residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas in 2021. One of them worked as a physiotherapist, according to AFP.
The story of the two women has received wide coverage in the Spanish media. Julio Iglesias, 82, is one of the most prominent artists in the Spanish-speaking world and also had major success with English-language albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
