Overview
- Family, business leaders and political figures gathered at the Parròquia dels Sants Gervasi i Protasi, with attendees including Sol Daurella, Ana Botín, Jordi Pujol, Artur Mas, José Montilla, Pere Aragonès and Josep Rull.
- Vilarrubí died in Barcelona on December 28 at age 71, as confirmed by an FC Barcelona statement.
- He was instrumental in the creation of Catalunya Ràdio, serving as secretary general and deputy director from 1983 to 1986, and later helped drive RAC1 through Radiocat/Grupo Godó.
- He served as FC Barcelona’s institutional vice president from 2010 to 2017 and resigned on October 1, 2017 in protest at the club playing during the referendum day unrest.
- Since 2016 he led the Acadèmia Catalana de Gastronomia i Nutrició and, in parallel, had been under Audiencia Nacional scrutiny in the Pujol case over payments linked to Jordi Pujol Ferrussola.