Book Jimmy Giménez-Arnau: My unusual memories, beyond the wedding that related me to Franco
Jimmy Giménez-Arnau (77) has been one of the most controversial television collaborators for years.
In his appearances as an interviewer for Telecinco's heart formats, for years he asked the characters the most uncomfortable or impertinent questions.
However, he himself has
also been a character
, motivated by the two years of marriage he shared with Merry Martínez-Bordiú, Franco's granddaughter.
For all these reasons, Jimmy sat down on the program
My house is yours
to go over
his personal life with
Bertín Osborne .
Osborne was surprised by the coldness with which Jimmy spoke of his closest family.
He has brothers and a daughter with whom he has no relationship.
The reason why he does not talk to his brothers
is monetary:
the distribution of his parents' inheritance.
Son of the journalist and diplomat
José Antonio Giménez-Arnau,
Jimmy enjoyed a comfortable life despite the economic difficulties of the postwar period.
He was able to study in Navarra, stay with the Rockefellers in New York and dedicate himself to being a writer.
At the age of 33, he met Merry Martínez-Bordiú, much younger than him.
They got married and their daughter Leticia was born.
However, two years after their marriage, Jimmy
decided to leave her
, according to what he said, following the advice of her father.
In the interview he said that when he left home he felt sorry for not being able to help her daughter fall asleep, because the girl relaxed holding her father's finger.
According to the journalist's version, during those years he
fought in courts
of Spain and the United States to be able to see his daughter.
Although he won the lawsuits, his ex-wife always managed to take her away.
Giménez-Arnau has not heard from Leticia for
several decades
and assured Bertín that he did not want to talk to her.
Something similar happens with his brothers.
Although six children were born from his parents' marriage, only four survived.
According to Jimmy, he got along with some of them, but when his parents died
, the relationship ended.
His version is that the family inheritance broke the ties, since they did not agree with the distribution of the assets.
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