A MAN who claims to be the illegitimate son of veteran crooner Julio Iglesias has summoned the singer's other children to provide a DNA sample in his quest to prove paternity.
Javier Sánchez Santos, from Valencia, put private detectives on his case and tissues used by the artist were 'rescued' from a waste-paper bin.
They showed a DNA match of 99.9% with Javier – the closest any test will ever show.
Osuna solicitors, acting for Javier, wrote to Iglesias giving him 10 days to agree to provide a voluntary sample of DNA, but the singer refused, saying the evidence gathered so far was not 'legitimate' as it had been obtained without permission.
According to Javier, Julio Iglesias had admitted to being his father back in 1992, and this was made official by a Valencia court ruling.
But a provincial and then Supreme Court verdict overturned this on appeal, stating that a verbal declaration without DNA as proof was not binding.
In light of Julio Iglesias' refusal to provide a sample, Osuna solicitors intends to contact the artist's siblings and other children – who include Enrique Iglesias, a successful pop idol in his own right and who is living in Miami with his retired tennis star wife Anna Kournikova.
Enrique is Julio's son from his marriage to Philippine-Spanish model and it-girl Isabel Preysler, who is now married to Nobel Prize winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
