This article is about the Spanish bullfighter. For other people with similar names, see Francisco Rivera. For the father Francisco Rivera Pérez, also a Spanish bullfighter, see Paquirri.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivera and the second or maternal family name is Ordóñez.
In 2009, he was awarded the Fine Arts medal by the Culture Ministry of Spain, a coveted bullfighting prize, but his receipt resulted in a public outcry.[2]
Personal life
He is the son of Paquirri (Francisco Rivera) and Carmen Ordóñez, and his brother is the matador Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez. His father’s second wife was Isabel Pantoja, with whom Francisco has a half-brother, Francisco José Rivera Pantoja.
He has one daughter, Cayetana Rivera y Martínez de Irujo (born October 16, 1999), from his marriage to Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, 12th Duchess of Montoro, on October 23, 1998. The couple divorced in 2002. Eugenia's mother was the Duchess of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, who was the most titled noble in the world.
In 2011, Francisco Rivera started dating Lourdes Beatriz Montes Parejo,[3] then a 27-year-old lawyer from Sevilla.[4]
They married on September 14, 2013 in Ronda. They have a daughter, named Carmen (born August 19, 2015).[5][6]
Books
Rivera Ordóñez, who is known in the press as "Fran", was the subject of the book Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain by American journalist Edward Lewine.
In 2012 he was again involved in a book, The Bull and The Ban by filmmaker Catherine Tosko and British bullfighter and writer Alexander Fiske-Harrison.[7]
