José Ortega Cano

José María Ortega Cano[1] (born 27 December 1953) is a Spanish bullfighter. He was married to Spanish singer Rocío Jurado.[2] They adopted two Colombian children, one boy and one girl.[3]

José Ortega Cano
Born
José María Ortega Cano

(1953-12-27) 27 December 1953
Cartagena, Spain

He began his bullfighting career in 1973 in Madrid, and had a notably successful year in 1986, where he was very successful in many bullrings. In 1995 he married Rocío Jurado, a famous Spanish singer. He retired from bullfighting in 1998, but donned the traje de luces bullfighter outfit again in 2001 to attempt a comeback, albeit with less success. He entered retirement again in 2004 to take care of his wife, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, until her passing in 2006. In 2007, Ortega Cano entered the bullring one final time in Olivenza.

He was a contestant on the Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars (Mira quién baila), where he showed no talent for dancing.

On 29 May 2011 he was involved in a car accident which left the other driver dead and himself in critical condition.[4] After a slow recovery, he left the hospital on 11 July 2011. On 24 April 2013, First-instance criminal court No. 6 of Seville sentenced Ortega Cano to two years, six months and one day in prison for reckless homicide and reckless driving, causing the death of Carlos Parra in the aforementioned accident.[5] He entered Zuera prison in Zaragoza on 23 April 2014.[6] After a year and a month in prison he was left out in regime of semi-liberty.[7]

On September 27, 2018 he married Ana María Aldón (his partner since 2012) by civil law in a notary office in Zaragoza.[8]

References
  1. Tribunal Supremo
  2. "Últimas noticias y biografía de Ortega Cano". hola.com. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  3. "Rocío Jurado, la más grande".
  4. El mundo.es El torero José Ortega Cano en estado crítico
  5. "Ortega Cano condenado a dos años, seis meses y un día de cárcel". Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
  6. "José Ortega Cano entra en la prisión de Zuera (Zaragoza)". El Periódico. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  7. Ortega Cano sale de prisión con el ansiado tercer grado in eleconomista.es
  8. Ortega Cano y Ana María Aldón se han casado in elperiodico.com (in Spanish)


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