Fidel castro how many children

It has been claimed that he smoked the first of his famous cigars at age 14 and survived as many as assassination attempts, but there is another claim that almost defies belief. According to former aides, Castro had an incredible sexual appetite. It has been reported that he would sleep with at least two different women per day, and would send his bodyguards out to find the most beautiful ones for his pleasure.

Former NBA basketball star Wilt Chamberlain famously claimed to have slept with 20, women , but Fidel Castro far surpasses even that astronomical number. As part of a documentary project by filmmaker Ian Halperin, former Castro staff have gone on record to estimate that the Cuban slept with around 35, women. With such a large number of conquests, it should come as no surprise that Castro fathered a good number of offspring.

No one knows exactly how many, but it is thought that Castro has at least 11 children who have been found by journalists and investigators.

He was 68 when he committed suicide. Mirta and Fidel divorced before Fidel took power in Cuba, but Mirta sent Fidelito to live with Fidel after his father came to power.

At one point, Miami relatives said that Fidel had kidnapped Fidelito when he never returned him. Fidelito was introduce d in by his father on a program broadcast by CBS, the only child of Fidel to be in the media spotlight growing up. When he studied nuclear physics in the Soviet Union in the s, he used the cover name Jose Raul Fernandez. Later, Fidelito ran the atomic-energy commission before his father removed him from his position, according to The New Yorker.

Getty Antonio Castro. Antonio became a doctor for a Cuban baseball team. Antonio later became the vice-president of the International Baseball Federation and has been deeply involved in helping Cuban ballplayers sign on American teams. Getty Alejandro Castro in Three out of five of his sons with Dalia have versions of the name Alexander, which is the pseudonym that Fidel used when he was a guerrilla fighter.

Getty Alexis Castro Soto del Valle. The photo above is from Today, Alex is a Cuban photographer and cinematographist. His parents divorced and "Fidelito" spent some of his early years in the US before his father managed to bring him back to Cuba. Fidelito himself was loyal to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, but was said in recent years to have grown weary - both of living in his father's shadow and having been sidelined from Cuban decision-making on energy resources, said reports.

His ideas for developing renewable energy on the island were not incorporated into state policy, an academic colleague, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, told Reuters. The TV announcement said his funeral would be planned by his family, but no further details were given. His father, Fidel Castro, a revolutionary figure and one of the world's longest serving political leaders, died aged 90 in Cuba's Fidel Castro dies aged Image source, AFP.