Julián Muñoz, the former mayor of Marbella (Málaga) died this Monday at the age of 76 because of the severe lung cancer from which he suffered, according to sources close to the family.
Muñoz had been admitted to a hospital in Marbella as an emergency since last Sunday, September 15, after suffering a deterioration; he had been sedated since last Monday afternoon.
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Constant calls and displays of affection
The calls and demonstrations of affection towards Julián Muñoz’s relatives do not stop. The last ones, some flowers from the Yagüe family arrived at the funeral home.
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Isa Pantoja reacts to the death of Julián Muñoz: “It was the best moment of my life”
Isabel Pantoja’s daughter confessed on the Telecinco programme ‘Vamos a ver’ that Julián’s death caused her “a shock”, specifying that Julián Muñoz with her “always behaved well” and stressing that she remembers her stay in Marbella as “the best of your life”.
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Funerals and cremation
This Tuesday, September 24, at 6:00 p.m., the funeral without burial of the soul of Julián Muñoz will take place at the funeral home in Marbella, to then proceed to his cremation. The family, as the former mayor of Marbella had wished, remains united in the funeral home where they mourn in privacy and accompanied by friends and other relatives.
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Fran Ortiz, son of Gunilla von Bismarck: “For me he is a good person, he has always treated me very well”
A few days after burying his father, also because of cancer, Fran Ortiz, son of Luis Ortiz and Gunilla von Bismarckwent to the San Bernabé funeral home to say a final goodbye to Julián Muñoz and protect the family. Visibly affected and accompanied by his wife, Elisabet Dutú, he made a statement to the journalists gathered at the doors of the funeral home: “For me, he is a good person, he has always treated me very well.”
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Burial at 6:00 p.m.
The burial of the mortal remains of Julián Muñoz will take place this afternoon at the San Bernabé cemetery in Marbella at 6:00 p.m. This was made known by the family gathered at the funeral home to watch over the body and receive family and friends who came to say a final goodbye.
It should be remembered that Julián Muñoz died at one in the morning on Tuesday, September 24. Around three in the morning, he was taken to the funeral home.
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Mayte Zaldívar, at the funeral home
Julián Muñoz’s widow, Mayte Zaldívar (they remarried last May), is at the San Bernabé funeral home to receive family and friends. Dressed in black from head to toe, her image demonstrates the suffering experienced in the last hours with the former mayor of Marbella, who spent his last hours sedated in a Marbella hospital.
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The funeral this afternoon
According to Julián Muñoz’s entourage, the funeral could take place this afternoon in Marbella
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Julián Muñoz, aka “Cachuli”: Telecinco journalist reveals the origin of the popular nickname
The death of Julián Muñoz paralyzed the newsrooms of the media this morning. Thus, Ana Terradillos made a technical stop at “The Critical Look” (Telecinco) to communicate the news and, in doing so, draw an unexpected conclusion about the death of the former mayor of Marbella (Malaga). But not everything related to the former politician was left at the beginning of the space, since to end the program, he invited Isabel Rábago, a journalist from Telecinco and regular contributor to “Vamos a ver”, to the table to talk about it. , since I had followed him quite a bit during “Operation Malaya”.
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Julián Muñoz, a life on the quay
The former mayor of Marbella has been on trial for almost two decades after his arrest. Although he had been convicted several times, he could no longer go to prison because he had served the maximum number of years in prison.
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Marisol Yagüe, at the funeral home
He also attended the San Bernabé funeral home in Marbella. Marisol Yagueformer mayor of Marbella. He was the one who replaced him in his functions after the motion of censure within the GIL. She was also among those found guilty in the “Malaya” case. She was received at the doors of the funeral home by Fernando Marcos, Maite Zaldívar’s partner.
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Fernando Marcos, partner of Mayte Zaldívar, at the funeral home
Fernando MarcosMayte Zaldívar’s partner, who lived with her and Julián Muñoz even after they remarried last May, also went to the funeral home in Marbella to say goodbye to the former mayor of Marbella. He was overcome with emotion hug with Elia, Maite and Julián’s daughter, and their grandson, Fran Redondo.
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Fran, Julián Muñoz’s grandson, devastated by his grandfather’s death
It is not because it was expected that the news of the death of the former mayor of Marbella was any less heartbreaking for the family, who accompanied Julián Muñoz until the moment of his death at the HC hospital in Marbella. In the image, his grandson, Fran Redondo, appears devastated at the San Bernabé funeral home with his aunt Elia, dressed in strict mourning.
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Media focus on Marbella funeral homes
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Farewell to family and friends at Marbella Funeral Home
Family and friends say goodbye to Julián Muñoz at San Barnabas Funeral Home from Marbella. Among them, his wife, Mayte Zaldivar, whom he remarried in May this year after a notorious divorce, his daughters Elia and Heloísa and their grandchildren.
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Third degree penitentiary
After several entries and exits from prison, Julián Muñoz obtained the third degree penitentiary –he only had to go to sleep in a social integration center– because of illness and in June 2021, conditional release for “serious and incurable multiple pathologies”according to medical reports.
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From court to court
Julián Muñoz was initially imprisoned for several convictions for crimes related to the authorization of planning permission; but his most famous legal proceedings were “Malaysia” caseagainst corruption in the Marbella City Council; and the money laundering case in which Maite Zaldívar and the singer Isabel Pantoja, who was her partner, were also tried.
In Malaysia he was sentenced to two years in prison and in case of money laundering, seven years in prison. His line of defense has always been the same in all processes, namely that he signed all the documents presented to him without knowing their content; “He even signed the hoods of cars,” since he trusted the technicians.
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Julián Muñoz, sedated since yesterday afternoon until the time of his death
Muñoz, admitted to the Marbella hospital on Sunday, September 15, emergency after suffering a worseningwould have remained sedated since last Monday afternoon, when the whole family went to the hospital to be with him, as his wife for many years does today, Maite Zaldívar and her daughter Elia.
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HC Marbella Hospital
Former Marbella mayor remains hospitalized HC International Hospital of Marbella in recent days due to the deterioration of his health due to lung cancer from which he had suffered for several years.
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Marbella Morgue
Julián Muñoz died around at one in the morning this Tuesday April 24 at HC Marbella Hospitalfrom where he was transferred to funeral home from the aforementioned city of Malaga at around three in the morning. His family is there At this moment we are already watching over the body of Mayte Zaldívar’s husband and Isabel Pantoja’s partner.
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Julián Muñoz, former mayor of Marbella, has died
Hello, we welcome you to this live broadcast in which we will tell you the last hour of the death of the former mayor of Marbella and celebrity of the gossip press, Julien Muñoz. He died at 76 years old in a hospital in Marbella, the Costa del Sol town where he lived and where he has been admitted intermittently in recent weeks due to lung cancer that he suffered.
