In an unexpected turn of the Epstein case, the name of Ana Obregón has emerged. As colloquially said, no one saw the connection of the sexual exploiter with the most famous biologist in our country coming. According to Ana Obregón herself, she met Epstein when she lived in New York and, as she describes in her memoirs titled This is me (Planeta editorial), Epstein was the ideal man. "Jeff became my guardian angel in New York. The perfect man I never fell in love with," were her exact words. The news broke on Tuesday, December 16, when Spanish media echoed an investigative report published by The New York Times linking the pedophile to Ana Obregón and her family.
The actress met Epstein when she was 27 years old and he was working at the investment bank Bear Stearns. This relationship was key for the Obregón family and other wealthy families in Spain to recover millions of dollars missing from a bankrupt investment fund. Epstein spent a year investigating the whereabouts of this money, something he achieved with the help of a friend and former federal prosecutor, Bob Gold. This person discovered that the funds were in the Cayman Islands, and Epstein traveled there to recover them. The substantial reward he received from the families for this economic feat and other businesses he had marked the beginning of his great fortune.
Ana Obregón appeared on the show And now Sonsoles on Tuesday and revealed that she was indeed friends with Epstein, something that now "disgusted her." However, when she met him, she found him to be a very polite man and even thought he could have something with her sister Amalia. She introduced them, but according to her, "the spark didn't ignite between them." At that time, the actress was dating Miguel Bosé and did not consider the possibility of a romance with him.
Ana Obregón and Jeffrey Epstein, in New York in the 80s. Image taken from her memoir 'This is me' (Planeta editorial)
On the show, she explained that she spent two and a half years in the United States and that he was the most wonderful person in the world. Epstein even took her to party at the legendary Studio 54 nightclub, where she said she felt like Lady Di. Additionally, there was a moment when he tried to get closer to Obregón but, thanks to her intuition, the biologist did not succumb to his charms. Just as she denied a romantic relationship with him, she also denied any economic ties between her family and Epstein. "My father started working at 11 years old and worked like an animal all his life. There was no economic relationship at all, it has nothing to do with my family."
The family Ana Obregón comes from is very well-off. Her father, Antonio García Fernández, was a renowned construction businessman who made a fortune during the Franco regime and the Transition years. He founded Constructora Obregón, with which he worked on major public and private projects. Antonio married Ana María Obregón, who dedicated her life to the home and her five children. Juan Antonio, known as Juancho, is the eldest. Ana has another brother, Javier, and two more sisters, Celia and Amalia. The biologist is very close to all her siblings, but especially to the girls. They were the only people, along with her ex Alessandro Lequio, to whom she confessed that she was going to be a mother-grandmother through surrogacy following the wishes of her only son Aless, who wanted to be a father and passed away in 2020.
All of Ana's siblings have been very discreet in the media, so it is surprising that the name of Amalia is now in the spotlight. The actress's younger sister initially worked as a model but gradually stepped away from the spotlight and focused on the real estate sector. She married Italian Giorgio Aresu, one of the first dancers of Ballet Zoom, created by the master of production Valerio Lazarov. He was also a choreographer for legendary shows like Un, dos, tres.. and Aplauso. Amalia's daughters are very close to their aunt Ana, as is the daughter of her sister Celia, who is named after her mother. All the cousins adored Aless and even when Amalia became a mother, she named her son Marco Alessandro in his honor.