From the ‘kidnapping’ of her children to the bottle against a photographer: Raquel Welch’s visit to Spain

The actress, a sexual icon of Hollywood from the 60s and 70s, died this Wednesday at the age of 82 after a brief illness. She will go down in the history of the seventh art with her performances in A Million Years Ago, Cocoon, The Three Musketeers o 100 riflesthe western that brought her to the desert of Almeria and in which he showed his less friendly face.

The diva landed at the Barajas airport with little desire to attend to the press and she got rid of it with bottle shots: one of them had a full impact on the photographer of the extinct newspaper Information. But of course, he had his motives, and it is Raquel Welch He had traveled to Spain with his two children, Tahnee y Damonbehind her ex-husband’s back James Welch. Back in Almería, the actress’s team begged reporters not to photograph the minors, as her mother could be accused of kidnapping. In return, she received them all in the suite of an exclusive hotel in Aguadulce, with an imposing miniskirt and a dizzying neckline.

It was not the only anecdote of that wild filming. The protagonist, then married to Patrick Curtisslept with his co-star, Sancho Grace. When the husband found out, he chased the Spaniard, gun in hand, and the Civil Guard had to show up so that the blood did not reach the river: they all ended up in the barracks. To Welch, however, the situation should not have seemed serious because a few weeks later the Spanish interpreter was also Aldo Sambrell the one who enjoyed a torrid night of passion with El Cuerpo.

The actress returned to Spain two more times: in 1973 and 1974 to shoot The Three Musketeers and its sequel, based on Dumas’s work and which won her a Golden Globe for Best Comedy Actress. In 1985 she traveled to Barcelona to promote a brand of cava in a Christmas spot.