MADRID, Jan 15 — Veteran Spanish singer Julio Iglesias is preparing his defence against sexual abuse allegations by two women ex-employees that have dominated headlines in Spain, celebrity magazine Hola! reported yesterday.

The women — a domestic worker and a physiotherapist — allege they suffered sexual and other forms of abuse while working at Iglesias’s properties in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas in 2021, according to Women’s Link Worldwide and Amnesty International.