Tito del Amo, one of Mojácar best-known residents, has died after a short illness. Tito first came to Mojácar in January 1966 as an AP photographer to take pictures of the Palomares incident. He bought a ruined chapel here and, with the help of architect Roberto Puig, built an astonishing home in the village. Tito (real name Jaime del Amo) was an American citizen whose grandfather was from Cantabria and who had settled and married into Los Angeles, California. Tito's father was a friend of General Franco (they would go hunting together) and there is a photograph somewhere of the father, a vaguely uncomfortable caudillo and a long-haired Tito standing together in a line, with their shotguns open on their arms.
Following some issues in Madrid in the early seventies, Tito moved full time to Mojácar and eventually bought Las Ventanicas, an estate on the beach, which he converted into a beach-bar complex, called 'Titos'. The bar became popular with several famous musicians, including Miguel Ríos, Jorge Pardo and the leader of Los Toreros Muertos, Pablo Carbonell.
Tito was the local defender of the theory that Walt Disney was connected to Mojácar by birth and, despite a complete lack of any evidence, a Spanish film was made to back up his claim.
Tito is survived by his three wives, Barbara, Meli and Marie, his companion Barbara and by his two daughters (XX) and Tesni.
Tito's brother André started the first English-language daily newspaper in Spain, the 'Iberian Daily Sun' in around 1964. Another brother is Tomás, a photographer based in Hawaii. There is also a surviving sister.
A couple of pictures and a write-up from 2014 en castellano here.