Torbe

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Allende and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.
Torbe
Born
Ignacio Allende Fernández

1969 (age 54–55)
Portugalete, Spain
Years active1996–present

Ignacio Allende Fernández (born 1969), better known as Torbe, is a Spanish actor, director, producer, and businessman in the online porn industry.

Early life

Ignacio Allende Fernández was born on 25 May 1969, in Portugalete, Spain, in the Basque region. After finishing school at the Munabe school of Opus Dei in Loiu, Biscay, he worked as radio DJ in local radio stations. In the early 1990s, he worked as a cartoonist in the animated film The Legend of the North Wind, credited as "Nacho Allende."[1] He also published his comics in magazines and comics fanzines. In the summertime, he worked as an event organizer in various hotels and nightclubs in the area.

Torbe started the internet porn page Torbellinesca in 1996, creating the Torbe persona,[2] and in 1999 established the domain name putalocura.com ("fucking madness"), which became highly successful. The site also features performers from Latin America.[3] He personally participated as an actor in numerous porn videos, and in approximately twenty porn films as director and actor.

In 2005, Torbe was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category in the AVN competition of the porn industry.[4]

Music

In July 2014, Torbe released a single titled "Soy un rumano en Madrid" ("I'm a Romanian in Madrid") accompanied by a video clip. The Federation of Romanian Associations in Europe protested on account of lyrics in the song such as "If I steal your wallet/Or remove all the copper/Don't get angry/I just want to have fun," calling it "racist and xenophobic." They claimed the song and clip encourage the notion that "the community of Romanians in Spain is made up of prostitutes, thieves and pickpockets."[5]

Mainstream cinema

Torbe's success in porn led him to be cast in mainstream films. He was featured in Spanish director Santiago Segura's Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001)[6] and Torrente 3: El protector (2005).[7] In 2014, Torbe appeared as himself in the Jaime Rosales-directed, 2014 film Beautiful Youth and collaborated in the set up of some scenes.[8]

In 2006, Torbe was accused of shooting a porn video that featured an underage, 17-year-old girl. Two days later, he was released without being charged.[2]

In 2012, Torbe was convicted and sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding callers in a television quiz show.[9]

On 27 April 2016, Torbe was arrested and charged with abusing underage girls, selling child pornography, and engaging in sex trafficking.[2] In June of the same year, the investigation expanded into allegations of tax evasion and forcing young women into prostitution. He was jailed and then released under parole in November 2016.[10] [11] The charges of sex trafficking were dismissed in June 2018.[12] The charges of selling underage pornography are still being investigated.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Nacho Allende in The Legend of the North Wind
  2. ^ a b c "Detenido por abuso de menores Torbe, el ‘rey’ del porno español" ("Torbe, King of Spanish porn, arrested for abuse of minors"), El Pais, 27 April 2016 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "Just who is Torbe, Spain’s so-called porn king?" by Pablo Canto, El Pais, 29 April 2016
  4. ^ 2005 nominations, AVN awards
  5. ^ "Exigen que YouTube elimine Soy un rumano en Madrid de Torbe por ser racista y xenófobo" [Petition for YourTube to delete I'm a Romanian in Madrid by Torbe for being racist and xenophobic]. ABC (in Spanish). 27 July 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  6. ^ Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella cast, IMDB
  7. ^ Torrente 3: El protector cast, IMDB
  8. ^ Rivera, Alfonso (18 May 2014). "Beautiful Youth: when poverty creeps in at the door". Cineuropa. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  9. ^ "El actor porno Torbe condenado por fraude en un concurso de televisión" ["Porn actor Torbe convicted for television quiz show fraud"], El Pais, 21 February 2012 (in Spanish)
  10. ^ "Spain goalkeeper David de Gea denies forced sex party claim", BBC News, 10 June 2016
  11. ^ "Muniain implicated in sexual assault; De Gea affected", Diario AS website, 10 June 2016
  12. ^ a b "La fiscal del caso Torbe sobresee el delito de trata de seres humanos: Las jóvenes vinieron a España sabiendo a lo que venían" ["The prosecutor of the Torbe case dismisses the accusation of human trafficking: The young women came to Spain knowing what they were coming to], eldiario.es, 25 June 2018 (in Spanish)
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