Juan Carlos I is demanding 50,000 euros from Miguel Ángel Revilla for slander... and has hired Ayuso's boyfriend's lawyer.

MadridJuan Carlos I has resided in Abu Dhabi for more than four and a half years, but he is no stranger to what is being said about him on Spanish television. The emeritus king has hired one of the lawyers of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's boyfriend to take legal action against Miguel Ángel Revilla, former president of Cantabria, a member of the regional parliament for the PRC (Republican Revolutionary Party), and a regular guest on programs for various media outlets. The current monarch's father accuses her of having "seriously slandered" him in public statements made between May 2022 and January 2025. According to a statement released by lawyer Guadalupe Sánchez, these are "insulting, defamatory, and opprobrious expressions that violate human rights."

The lawyer requests Revilla's rectification "through the same means and publicly" and compensation of 50,000 euros for the "moral damages caused" to Juan Carlos I. "They will be given in full to the official confederation of charitable and social action entities of the Catholic Church" (Càri punctually. Before filing the lawsuit, the lawyer requested a conciliation ceremony before the first instance courts of Santander to try to reach an agreement with Revilla that avoids litigation.

Sources from the Royal Household have distanced themselves from the lawsuit and assure that "it is a personal initiative" of the father of the current King of Spain that he has undertaken "through his private lawyers." They also emphasize that Juan Carlos I has not consulted them about the decision to initiate legal action on this matter. The lawyer hired by the former monarch is Alberto González Amador's lawyer, who reported the theft of his computer. personnel with sensitive information in Alicante. The Madrid president framed the incident as part of the alleged "persecution" of her entourage, although it ended with the arrest of three people for common crimes.

"We have paid all the lovers to the king"

There have been numerous occasions on which Revilla, who explains that he had had an "exceptional relationship" with Juan Carlos I before the scandals followed him, has spoken out against the former monarch on television. At the end of May 2022, as a guest on The Anthill On Antena 3, the former regional president criticized the alleged €100 million commission he allegedly received from Saudi Arabia related to the construction of the AVE (high-speed rail) train in Mecca, of which €65 million allegedly went to his former lover Corinna Larsen. "I'm against the corrupt," Revilla emphasized, also criticizing the emeritus king's "almost pornographic acts of exhibitionism" during his visits to Spain. "He has a lot of money abroad; he has deceived us Spaniards," he lamented.

Revilla has not stopped making these types of statements. In October 2024, following the publication of photographs of Juan Carlos I with another former lover, the showgirl Bárbara Rey, he reported Public Mirror, from the television channel itself, that "we have paid all the king's lovers." More or less around the same time, in The Critical Look Telecinco's host, insisted on attacking him, emphasizing that the most serious aspect is "the enormous amount of money the emeritus has abroad." "A man who doesn't pay taxes in Spain isn't Spanish... anyone who was always talking about Spain has established tax domicile in another country," he added.