Francisco Rivera Paquirri

Bullfighter Francisco Rivera Ordoñez

Paquirri

Date of birth: Madrid January 3, 1974, although it is considered de Ronda.

Public debut: On August 7, 1991

Debut of lights:

He debuted with picadors: In Ronda (Málaga) on May 21, 1992 in a poster completed by Javier Conde and Jose Antonio Ortega Torrestrella bulls.

Debut Sales: On April 25, 1994, as fellow had on that occasion to Rodolfo Nunez and Victor Puerto, where the bulls of the Torrestrella livestock.

Alternative: On April 23, 1995, from the hand of Juan Antonio Ruiz "Spartacus" in the Maestranza he is taking as a witness Jesulín Ubrique.

He confirmed the alternative in Madrid on May 23, 1996 acartelado with "Joselito" and Enrique Ponce with bulls Samuel Flores.

Francis Rivera Ordonez, exduque Montoro is a Spanish bullfighter. It is known habitually as Fran Rivera. It has been awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. Duke consort of Montoro between 1998 and 2002.

It is the first child of the marriage of the famous bullfighter of the same name, Francisco Rivera "Paquirri" and Carmen Ordoñez.

His life is marked by a farmer and bullfighter environment, being born into a family with a long tradition of bullfighters.

Francisco lost his father a September afternoon in 1984, when he was mortally wounded in full operation by the horns of the bull Nibs in the Cordovan town of Pozoblanco.

Antonio Ordonez was his grandfather who truly started in the world of bullfighting, believing he had caste.

Francisco Rivera is a solidarity bullfighter, having ever fought countless festivals whenever he asked. In fact, it has been recognized as the most festivals matador has fought cancer in Cordoba.

On August 17, 2008 celebrates its run number 1000, (available to few) locking himself with six bulls in the plaza of Estepona where he cut four ears and a tail, its solidarity character made that the benefits of this run were destined to fight against cystic Fibrosis

From August 2010, on posters of the places listed it announced the name of his father Francisco Rivera "Paquirri".

In 1998, on October 23, married in Seville Cathedral with Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, Duchess of Montoro, daughter of the Duchess of Alba, at a wedding with more than 1400 guests. It is the first time a bullfighter marries a member of the aristocracy. A year after their marriage born daughter, Cayetana. The couple divorced by mutual agreement in March 2002.

Since before the summer of 2009, he began dating the flamenco dancer, Celia Gomez, who until September was working for eight years at the famous company of Sara Baras. The relationship lasted until March 2010, after nine months of dating the bullfighter confirmed that they had broken.

Since August 2011 leaves and currently is married to Lourdes Montes Parejo Sevillian lawyer with whom he has a daughter, niece of singer Jose Manuel Soto.