Jesús Mariñas

Jesús Manuel Pérez Mariñas (3 October 1942 – 10 May 2022) was a Spanish gossip journalist.

Career Mariñas was born on 3 October 1942 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. At the age of 14 he began to study declamation at the Conservatory of his hometown and, influenced by a teacher, because he wanted to be an artist, he studied journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Later he moved to Madrid where, thanks to the help of the journalist linked to the press of the Franco regime , he worked in the newspaper . In 1967 he moved to Barcelona and working for he began to know the world of the gossip journalism, working as editor of magazines such as Semana and Pronto. That year he joined Radio Miramar in Barcelona to be part of the program Cosas and Mitad y mitad and collaborated in COPE's program El primero de la mañana and worked for Época magazine, until 2000.

In October 2021 he announced that two months earlier he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He was urgently admitted to the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid on 31 March 2022. Mariñas died on 10 May 2022 at the age of 79 at the Madrilenian hospital of San Rafael.