Francisco (Fran) Rivera Ordóñez (Madrid, 52 years old) has fulfilled one of his most media wishes for decades. The former bullfighter, son of the right-handed Francisco Rivera Paquirri and Carmina Ordóñez, has been judicially claiming part of an inheritance that is more emotional than valuable, consisting of various personal objects of Paquirri, from capes, costumes of lights to other bullfighting equipment, and which has led to what is known as the Cantora war. According to the version of the bullfighter's eldest son, this legacy has been denied him for decades by his father's second wife, the tonadillera Isabel Pantoja, with whom he was married until September 26, 1984, when Avispado gored him to death in the bullring of Pozoblanco (Córdoba). From that long-awaited inheritance, Fran Rivera has now managed to recover two bull heads thanks to his brother Kiko Rivera, the third son of the late bullfighter and the result of his marriage to the singer.
Continue reading
