Rocio Jurado
- Category : 1943-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (48,57)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Eden 3
Biography
Spanish singer and actress, nicknamed "La más grande" ("The Greatest").
She was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco, with whom she had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco. Divorced, she married bullfighter José Ortega Cano, and they adopted two children, Gloria Camila Ortega Mohedano and José Fernando Ortega Mohedano.
In 2004, Jurado was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and treated in Houston, Texas. In April 2006, she was treated for acute liver failure in a hospital in Madrid. On 26 May 2006, Spain's Culture Minister Carmen Calvo announced that Jurado had suffered a stroke. On 1 June 2006 she died, aged 61, at 5:15 a.m. at her home in La Moraleja Alcobendas, Madrid.