Carmen Ordóñez: 20 years since the death of a genuine diva

Nothing in Carmen Ordóñez's life was vulgar, a term she deeply abhorred. Nor was his death, now 20 years old, a death shrouded in the same mystery that covered an existence marked by hedonism, parties, passions, addictions, dissatisfaction and unhappiness. It was 12 o'clock on a warm morning of July 23, 2004 when the world of high society and the heart was petrified upon hearing the news: Carmen Ordóñez, the genuine and infinite diva, had just d…

This Tuesday, July 23, 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Carmina Ordóñez, who died at 49 years of age in her home in the Hortaleza neighborhood of Madrid. Her friend Eva Carreño was the one who found Carmina dead in the bathtub. His body was incinerated and his ashes were scattered between El Rocío and Tangier, two of his favorite places. To this day, his death remains a mystery, as we will tell you later. Carmina Ordóñez always sa…

The most beautiful woman in Spain according to the magazine 'Time' and Pérez Reverte. It seems that it was yesterday, and one who writes remembers perfectly well how she heard the news. At home, at the age of fifteen, the TV turned on and ready to go out to the pool. Those teenage summers of which you were already fully aware of the news, and of its importance. And the death of Carmina Ordónez was one of them. We had grown up with their faces on…