Ana Obregón

Antonia Dell'Atte filed a criminal complaint after Ana Obregón publicly claimed that she had falsified an earlier domestic abuse complaint against Alessandro Lequio. In 2022, Barcelona Investigating Court No. 3 admitted the complaint and Obregón was placed under investigation for a possible offence of making false accusations. Public statements by Dell'Atte in 2025 indicated that the litigation remained unresolved.

Attribution

Directly implicated

Ana Obregón was accused in the press of not yet transferring to the Aless Lequio Foundation income she had publicly linked to her son's book and certain exclusive media arrangements. The controversy concerned the amounts, accounting timetable and precise scope of her promises.

State of the evidence

Allegations

Attribution

Direct responsibility

Ana Obregón arranged for a child to be born in Florida through surrogacy, conceived using preserved sperm from her son Aless Lequio, who died in 2020. She explained that she was biologically the girl's grandmother but legally her mother under the US arrangements. The case sparked a national debate about surrogacy, posthumous reproduction, consent and the child's registration in Spain.

State of the evidence

Documented

Attribution

Personally implicated

Ana Obregón had publicly accused the father of a former nanny of raping his daughter when she was a child. In February 1996, a criminal court sentenced her to one month and one day of detention, a fine and compensation for serious insult. In April 1996, the Madrid Provincial Court overturned the conviction and acquitted her, finding that intent to insult had not been established.

Attribution

Personally implicated

Course of the proceedings

1. Formally charged — Formal charge before the current outcome

Ana Obregón pursued lengthy litigation after Playboy published photographs she had initially selected or authorised before attempting to withdraw consent shortly before the issue was released. The civil courts and subsequently the Constitutional Court rejected her claim regarding that edition, considering, among other factors, the consequences of the late withdrawal and contractual good faith.

Attribution

Protagonist is the complainant

Ana Obregón and Alessandro Lequio sued Vogue España over a highly critical article by José Luis de Vilallonga, seeking substantial compensation for infringement of their reputation and privacy. A Madrid judge dismissed the claim, describing the article as cruel and excessive but not legally insulting or defamatory in light of the claimants' public profiles.

Attribution

Protagonist is the complainant