MALAGA, Spain – Spanish popular singer Isabel Pantoja has urged a court in the southern city of Malaga to suspend her imminent entry in jail, where she is to serve a two-year sentence for money laundering.
The 58-year-old star of gipsy origin, known for her Andalusian popular songs, made the appeal hours before her scheduled entry in prison, suspending the process while the court deliberates.
Spain’s Supreme Court on June 23 confirmed the two-year sentence against Pantoja and a fine of 1.4 million euros ($1.7 million) for money laundering.
The singer was accused of being the accomplice of her former boyfriend, ex-mayor of the Marbella resort Julian Muñoz, who was sentenced in the same court case to six-and-a-half years in jail for money laundering and bribery.
During their relationship, Muñoz was arrested in 2006 and spent more than two years in jail for embezzling public funds and his involvement in a real estate scam known as the Malaya case.
Pantoja has always been a favorite for gossip magazines, who called her “the widow of Spain” after her first husband, matador Francisco Rivera “Paquirri” was gored to death by a bull shortly after they married.
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