Two former employees of Julio Iglesias sue him before the Spanish justice, after denouncing in a journalistic investigation published this January 13, 2026 alleged assaults and sexual harassment by the Spanish singer. Picture: Javier Soriano / AFP A criminal complaint filed by two former employees of veteran Spanish singer Julio Iglesias accuses him of “human trafficking” and sexual crimes, according to advocacy groups supporting the women. The women — a domestic worker and a physiotherapist — allege they suffered sexual and other forms of abuse while working at Iglesias’s properties in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas in 2021, Women’s Link Worldwide and Amnesty International said late Tuesday.
The organisations said a complaint filed with Spanish prosecutors on January 5 outlined alleged acts that could be considered “a crime of human trafficking for the purpose of forced labour” and “crimes against sexual freedom”. Iglesias subjected them to “sexual harassment, regularly checked their mobile phones, restricted their ability to leave the home where they worked, and required them to work up to 16 hours a day without days off,” according to testimony collected by the two groups. One of the women, a Dominican identified as Rebeca, who was 22 at the time of the alleged incidents, said she spoke out to seek justice and set an example for other employees of the singer.
“I want to tell them to be strong, to raise their voices, to remember he is not invincible,” she said, according to a statement by Women’s Link. Judicial sources confirmed to AFP that a complaint was filed against Iglesias, without giving further details. The allegations were first detailed in an investigation published Tuesday by US television network Univision and Spanish newspaper elDiario.es.
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Iglesias, 82 has not publicly responded to the accusations. The allegations have sparked strong reactions in Spain, where the Grammy-winning singer has long been a respected figure.
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