Less than a year ago Maria Jimenez p.She washed for the last time in a horse-drawn carriage, just as she wanted her mortal remains to be carried through the streets of her beloved Seville one day.
It was in the edition of Sicab, the Horse Fair, last November. The artist received an award, one more, the same one that on her day they had the Duchess of Alba the american actress Derek Bo. They gave it to María sitting in the carriage. It had been a long time since she could walk and they found the formula to make the delivery of the trophy possible.
Next to her was her son Alejandro, whom it was difficult to convince to appear in public in such a notorious way. He has always been a discreet boy who has only spoken out when he sided with her mother when María publicly denounced the ill-treatment of her ex-husband Pepe Sancho.
That day, María Jiménez made an enormous effort to attend the closing ceremony of Sicab as the guest of honor. As we have now learned from the party organizers, was receiving chemotherapy treatment which produced secondary effects, such as tiredness, lack of strength and general malaise. But she was there, although she later declined to attend the gala dinner that closed this important equestrian fair. It was her last social outing.
the great artist, passed away this Thursday at the age of 73, he had overcome a problem with the digestive system, which two years before had caused him a deep coma for two months, which almost cost him his life and reduced his mobility. But what finally finished her off was the lung cancer that he suffered, as we have announced for the first time, although he never made this terrible ailment public.
She never complained about anything, she was not a victimizer, not even when she remembered the mistreatment she suffered during her marriage to the actor Pepe Sancho. But for a year she no longer wanted to accept any of the invitations he received to attend celebrations or tributes.
Eugenia Martínez de Irujo and her husband knew that she was not well
Just a week ago, his friends Narcís Rebollo y Eugenia Martinez de Irujo They went to look for her so that she could go out and have some fresh air having lunch away from home. According to what they have told in the Mañaneros de La 1 program, the daughter of the Duchess of Alba, also a lifelong friend of María, and Rebollo, president of Universal Music, singer’s record company, they found her weak and in very bad shape. Apparently her family was already thinking of admitting her to a clinic at any moment. She now rests in peace.
The aristocrat says goodbye to her beloved María like this: “For me you will always be eternal. I refuse to think that you have left. Indomitable spirit, unique and unrepeatable and an overwhelming race and personality. Always with you María I love you”.