The judge refused to admit the DNA as evidence but in his ruling stated that “there is a clear physical resemblance between father and son” as well as the evidence that “at the time of conception there was a certain amount of contact between María Edite Santos and Julio Iglesias during which time it is not implausible that they had a sexual relationship”. Photograph: Jose Jordan/ AFP/Getty Images Javier Sanchez Santos (C) arrives with his mother Maria Edite Santos (L) to appear to the court of Valencia before a hearing to examine his paternity claim. Osuna claimed DNA testing showed that Santos and Iglesias Jr were brothers. The detective managed to get hold of a water bottle that the singer’s son Julio Iglesias Jr was drinking from when he was surfing in Miami. The case had already been dismissed in 1992 but Santos’s lawyer, Fernando Osuna, insisted DNA evidence procured by a detective in the US was cause for the case to be reopened. The judge’s decision was based on the testimony of María Edite, a former ballerina, who said she had a one-week affair with Iglesias in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on the Costa Brava in 1975 and that Santos was born as a result of that relationship. In a case that has dragged on for two years, a judge in Valencia ruled that Javier Sánchez Santos, who now lives in Italy, is the Spanish singer’s son despite Iglesias repeatedly refusing to give a DNA sample.

A Spanish court has ruled that the pop star Julio Iglesias is the biological father of a 42-year-old man whose mother said she had a brief affair with the singer in the 1970s.

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