Luis Miguel González Lucas

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

Luis Miguel González Lucas 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 he was active in the card where another legend, Manolete, lost his life.

González Lucas was also a socialite who was friends with Pablo Picasso and had a 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. The rivalry consisted of finding out who could kill more bulls in one year. Ordóñez won the rivalry.

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

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

González Lucas died of heart failure.

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