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Spanish Singer To Go To Jail For Money Laundering
A Spanish court has ordered popular folk singer Isabel Pantoja to jail after her appeals against a two-year sentence for money laundering were rejected.
The southern Malaga provincial court said the 58-year-old Pantoja had three days to enter prison.
Pantoja, who was also fined 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) following the 2012 trial, was found guilty of laundering money for Julian Munoz, a former boyfriend and one-time mayor of the resort city of Marbella.
Pantoja is a fixture in Spain’s gossip magazines and TV shows. She was married to the famous bullfighter Francisco “Paquirri” Rivera, who died in the bullring in 1984.
Photo: Sergio Torres/AP, file
Arriving at the court in Marbella, southern Spain.
Munoz, who was sentenced to seven years, ran a scheme of providing building permits in Marbella in return for bribes.