Died at the age of 88 last Saturday, Juan Canal has left without achieving a judicial victory that I had been waiting for decades. Waiting for A funeral will be held today in Colombres, the Asturian town where he lived, his three children have traveled from Miami to say goodbye to their father.
A goodbye that is marked by that legal complaint that the Asturian undertook in recent decades to prove that he was the son of Pío Noriega, father of Eduardo Noriega. Without being the first case (nor the last) of a famous person facing a paternity suit for himself or his family, as is the case of Bertín Osborne and Gabriela Guillén or Julio Iglesias and his possible son, Javier; this was one of the least known.
Despite having gained media authority in recent years, everything was being done in a very discreet manner. Although a few months ago the company itself Juan Canal spoke to several media outletsas ‘Espejo Público’. Then, the Antena 3 program revealed how Pío Noriega, from a wealthy family, He is said to have had a romantic relationship with a domestic worker in his home when he was 19 years old and she was 36 years old.
From those meetings Juan was born and was sent to an orphanage, as his parents were not married. He lived there until he was 20, when his unrecognized fatherPío Noriega, sends him to Cuba to live; as Gema López revealed on Susanna Griso’s programme.
Gema López interviewed Juan Canal on ‘Public Mirror’. (Atresmedia)
After a first marriage with Marina Roiz, with whom he has to his son Pius, Eduardo Noriega’s father was widowed. “Marina died and Pío married María Teresa Gómez, daughter of the then president of the community of Cantabria. With her, Pio had five children, the fifth, Eduardo Noriega,” the journalist revealed in ‘Espejo público’.
We then travel to the 1980s, when Juan Canal returned to Spain to begin a legal fight to be recognized by his supposed father, also the progenitor of the well-known actor. After the death of Pío Noriega in 1988, Juan Canal does manage to have DNA tests done with his brother, Pío, which result in 99.99% of a positive relationship.
Although the judicial issues of inheritance and Recognition of the Asturian as a legitimate son The businessman’s problems were not resolved. A legal battle to “restore his mother’s honour”, as he himself revealed on the Antena 3 programme, which Eduardo Noriega is aware of, who has always been very discreet on the subject, as with the rest of his personal life.
Regarding this judicial situation of Juan Canal, His three children will be in charge of continuing the legal cause.l in court. Thus, as revealed by ‘La Razón’, the three possible nephews of Eduardo Noriega will continue fighting in the Constitutional Court so that His father is recognized as the actor’s brother.
Died at the age of 88 last Saturday, Juan Canal has left without achieving a judicial victory that I had been waiting for decades. Waiting for A funeral will be held today in Colombres, the Asturian town where he lived, his three children have traveled from Miami to say goodbye to their father.
