How was Agustín Lara’s wedding with his adopted daughter

The life of Agustin Lara was full of controversy over the marriages he had, as they were with María Félix and Esther Rivas, but the one that shocked show business at the time, was the one that kept with Rocío Durán, the young woman who adopted.

Agustín Lara rose to fame for being one of the best musicians and composers in Mexico and who saw his success grow during the Golden era of Mexican cinema, but his private life also made the whole world turn to see him, because scandals from time to time surrounded him.

It was known that the Skinny Gold He had become one of the most romantic men of the show and that in this way he had managed to conquer thousands of women without even having met them, but among all of them, he decided to marry Rocío Durán, the daughter he adopted with Maria Felix.

Rocío was the biological daughter of the actress Chabela Duran, with whom the composer had a very good relationship. When the playwright had her daughter, she knew that Lara could give her a better life than her, so Agustín himself agreed to adopt her.

From the age of five, the Skinny Gold Y Maria Felix they took care of Rocío, therefore, he became her father, but the adoption was never formally carried out.

Since there was no legal relationship between Durán and Lara, one day the composer proposed to his daughter to marry, to which she agreed. The times she has answered why she agreed to marry her father, she assures that it was because it was not something real and they only wanted the press to be scandalized, for fun.

The Church wedding took place in Spain, and it is that according to Rocío relates, he had arrived in Spain and they had to greet Francis francor, as the law dictated.

During this meeting, despite the fact that the composer and the general did not have a close relationship, Franco recommended that he marry Durán, as God commanded it. Lara would have seen no inconvenience in doing so and told the dictator that he would join the young woman in marriage for the church.

Everything was prepared in just a few days, with the help of Francisco Franco. Her dress and his tuxedo were made in a very short time so that he June 28, 1964When she was 17 and he was 60, they finally made it to the altar.

The wedding took place in the crypt of the Basilica of Guadalupe in Madrid, which was still under construction. As godfather he was Chicote parakeet, a great friend of the composer.

The ceremony would not have been celebrated that same day, but rather later. Lara was caught by the press accompanied by some Spanish friends in a Madrid venue celebrating her marriage. In addition to the journalist Germán Hebreros San Martín, the bullfighter Manuel Benitez The Cordovan and the singer Rosa Morena were present at the party.

This union was not only controversial for the public and the press, but Chabela Durán herself decided break all relationship with your daughter and with Agustín Lara, as he never approved of what they did.

Although many people thought that Rocío agreed to marry only because that would mean obtaining her considerable fortune as an inheritance from the composer, she has confessed that she was never interested in money. Currently, she assures that her father and husband did not inherit it.

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