Luis Miguel González Lucas

Luis Miguel González Lucas (November 9, 1926 - May 8, 1996) was a famous bullfighter from Spain, better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín. His father was the legendary Domingo Dominguín; he adopted his father's name to gain popularity.

Luis Miguel González enjoyed wide popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, becoming a legend on his own as he conquered bulls all over Spain, Portugal, Colombia and other places. He debuted at the age of eleven and was active in the card where another legend, "Manolete", lost his life.

González was also a socialite who was friendly with Pablo Picasso and who had a tempestous romance with the American actress Ava Gardner and the fashion model China Machado. In 1954, he married actress Lucia Bosé. In 1959, he and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez, engaged in a bullfighting rivalry that was chronicled by Ernest Hemingway in his book, "The Dangerous Summer". Ordóñez won.

González had three children by Lucia Bosé; one of them, Miguel Bosé, (born in Panama City, Panama) is an international singer of great fame across Latin America and Spain, which once prompted his father to remark, "Now I'm known as Miguel Bosé's father".

He divorced Lucia Bosé in 1968, and in 1987 married Rosario Primo de Rivera. In 1971 at the age of 44 he returned to the bull ring, and retired for good in 1973.

He died of heart failure at 69 in 1996.

References

* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel_Domingu%C3%ADn Spanish Wikipedia]