Overview
- Two former employees describe assaults in 2021 at homes in Punta Cana and Lyford Cay, when one was 22 and Iglesias was 77.
- Accounts include forced oral sex, non-consensual digital penetration, groping and insults, sometimes in the presence or with the involvement of a higher-ranking house employee.
- Former staff depict long shifts up to 16 hours, isolation, delayed days off, hiring based on full-body photos and intrusive checks, often without written contracts.
- The reporting by elDiario.es and Univision draws on repeated interviews, testimony from more than a dozen ex-staff and documentary and medical records, with no judicial findings reported.
- Iglesias and his lawyer did not answer questions from reporters, a former head of household called the claims “lies,” two women sought advice from a human rights organization, and Madrid opposition leaders urged the removal of city and regional honors.