Spain PM Faces Scrutiny Over Family’s Past Ties to Gay Saunas

In July 2025, a political dispute in Spain brought renewed attention to historic gay-sauna businesses operated by relatives of Begoña Gómez, the wife of prime minister Pedro Sánchez.

During a parliamentary exchange, opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo accused Sánchez of having benefited financially from businesses connected to his wife's family. Sánchez's government rejected the attack, and subsequent reporting distinguished the documented history of the family's sauna businesses from broader allegations made in the political debate.

Begoña Gómez's father, Sabiniano Gómez, had operated gay saunas in Madrid. Some outlets characterised parts of the wider family business as connected to prostitution, while other reporting highlighted court findings describing the sauna activity itself as lawful private business and criticised its partisan use.

Separate reporting in 2025 also revisited allegations that former police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo had gathered information about Sánchez and members of his family years earlier. Those reports added a further political and legal context to the renewed controversy.

This restored page preserves the original WhereIs.Gay URL while reflecting the contested nature of the claims. It should be read as an archive of the 2025 political dispute, not as an independent finding about wrongdoing.