Ortega Cano and Rocío Jurado: this is the story of their love that lasted more than a decade

The love story of José Ortega Cano and Rocío Jurado lasted more than a decade, however, not everyone knows the details of their time together and what happened to Ortega Cano after Rocío died from a terrible illness.

José Ortega Cano and María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado were married on February 17, 1995 in Yerbabuena, a property they bought a year before their wedding located in the municipality of Castilblanco de los Arroyos, Seville, Spain.

Unfortunately, the singer passed away in 2006 due to cancer. The singer had a difficult battle against this disease, so this love story between Ortega and Rocío had a bitter ending.

A short love story between José Ortega and Rocío Jurado

Rocío Jurado had two great loves in her life: Pedro Carrasco and José Ortega Cano. The singer and the boxer got married in 1976 and separated 13 years later, in 1989.

The fruit of their love was Rocío Carrasco, who continues to maintain that her father and mother still loved each other despite the fact that their lives took different paths on that date.

Rocío and Ortega met in a doctor’s waiting room, where they were both being treated for their depression. After that meeting in 1992, they got to know each other better from that day on, so they decided to get married in 1995.

As time went by, he continued bullfighting and she continued filling stages, but José Ortega Cano wanted to start a family so they decided to adopt Gloria Camila and José Fernando.

After that great news, the family was happy and took trips to Miami, vacations in their beloved Chipiona, family gatherings to celebrate their children’s First Communion, among others.

But in 2004, everything turned grey, because the singer announced that she had pancreatic cancer, a disease that kept her hospitalised in the US for months, away from her children, and from which she died on 1 June 2006. 

What happened to José Ortega Cano?

Ortega Cano is currently a retired bullfighter and had been away from television for a long time, however, at one time he had problems with his stepdaughter Rocío Carrasco.

Rocío Carrasco accused him of having had irregular behavior during his marriage to Rocío Jurado, all of this distanced him further from the media, however, Ortega continues to maintain that the love of his life was always Rocío Jurado.

José Ortega Cano married again, to Ana María Aldón, but Ortega’s new wife always felt inferior to Rocío Jurado, even though she was no longer with the bullfighter.

Ortega spoke publicly about his biography with Rocío Jurado through a television channel in the country, where he shared special moments from the 12 years he and Rocío Jurado lived as a married couple.

He said he was deeply affected when doctors diagnosed Rocío with pancreatic cancer, so the family thought at the time that she should seek treatment for the disease outside Spain.

However, Roció Jurado could not bear the illness and died in 2006, leaving José Ortega Cano a widower at an early age. Cano is currently recovering from a fall he suffered on the Madrid metro.

Ortega Cano falls in the Madrid subway

José Ortega Cano appeared on television to talk about his fall in the subway on Tuesday, October 22, where he mentioned that he was in the process of recovery and that it was quite a scare.

“I had a bad time, I didn’t understand what had happened. I couldn’t believe that it had happened to me and that way, with that pain in my kidneys and head,” he said in the interview, referring to the moment of his fall.

Although it was a scare, he mentions that he had a fracture in his left humerus and that he is going to rehabilitation, he thought that the recovery process would be shorter.