Few Facts Before Starting Yudenia Sosa Martínez, Gary Glitter & Gary Pantoja Sosa News
- Gary Pantoja Sosa, 18, is the son of Gary Glitter and Yudenia Sosa Martínez
- Teenager was born in Havana, Cuba, after a nine-year affair between the two
- Glitter would travel to Havana where children were sold for sex in some bars
- Glitter reportedly sends Gary Jr. and his mother cash from British prison
- Gary Glitter was jailed in 2015 for child sex crimes, and sentenced to 16 years
Paedophile glam rocker Gary Glitter’s 18-year-old love child is living a comfortable life in Cuba off cash his father sends him and his mother, family friends claim.
Gary Pantoja Sosa was born in 2001 during his mother Yudenia Sosa Martínez’s nine-year affair with jailed British musician Glitter, 74.
Despite serving a 16-year sentence in the UK for a host of sex crimes, Glitter is reportedly still able to send Gary Jr. and Miss Martínez, 45, money, and the teenager spends his days skating and teaching himself how to be a tattoo artist.
The love child: Gary Pantoja Sosa, 18, was born during a nine-year affair between his mother, Yudenia Sosa Martínez, 45, and British disgraced performer Gary Glitter, 74
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Glitter is still able to benefit from royalties from his music, some of which is sent to Miss Martinez, left, who is also unemployed, and their son, right. Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, and Miss Martinez met in the 1990s
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Gary Pantoja Sosa is living a comfortable life in Cuba off cash his father sends him and his mother
Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, and Miss Martinez met in the 1990s, during his regular trips to Havana in Cuba, at a time when the city was notorious for bars where children could be bought for sex for £60 a night.
Glitter and the former farm girl embarked on a relationship which would see him hand her around £20,000 – a fortune in Cuba at the time – to buy a four-bedroom apartment in 1998 overlooking Havana’s seafront boulevard, the Malecon.
Gary Glitter’s child performs tricks on skateboard in Cuba
In 1999, Glitter was convicted of downloading child pornography in Britain and fled to Cuba where he renewed his relationship with Miss Martinez, and Gary Jr was conceived in 2000.
Glitter, famous for songs such as I’m The Leader Of The Gang, and Do You Wanna Touch Me?, had to leave Cuba before his son was born due to a crackdown on sex tourists.
Long-time love: Gary Glitter and Miss Martinez are pictured at a hotel in Cuba in 1996
Mama’s boy: The 18-year-old shared this picture of himself planting a kiss on his mother’s cheek on his Instagram
Serving time: Gary Glitter, pictured in 2015, is serving 16 years for attempted rape, sex with a child under the age of 13 and four counts of indecent assault
Gary Glitter enters court ahead of sex offences guilty verdict
Father and son have never met, and in 2015, Glitter was found guilty of attempted rape, sex with a child under the age of 13 and four counts of indecent assault, and is currently incarcerated at HMP The Verne in Dorset.
However, Glitter is still able to benefit from royalties from his music, some of which is sent to Miss Martinez, who is also unemployed, and their son.
‘Glitter still helps the family out from England. Yudania and Gary do not work but they still get money from Glitter,’ Close family friend Felipe Peraza Cabrera, 55, told The Mirror.
‘Glitter bought Yudania a really expensive fridge a while back, maybe five years ago.
‘The young Gary does tattoos, people go to the apartment to get tattooed and he makes a bit of money with that.’
This picture was taken near the home in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana. Glitter had to leave Cuba before his son was born due to a crackdown on sex tourists
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Like father like son: Mr Pantoja Sosa, left, has never met his father, pictured right in the early 1960s while performing under the name Paul Raven
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Still speaking: Mr Pantoja Sosa says he is in communication with his father, pictured right in the 1960s while performing under the name Paul Raven
Mr Pantoja Sosa told the paper he is still ‘in communication’ with his father, and acknowledges that he is neither working nor studying.
Pictures posted on his social media accounts show a stylish young man with a penchant for posing in sunglasses.
He also frequently posts videos of himself performing skateboarding tricks and dresses in well-known skater brands such as Supreme.
Mr Peraza Cabrera told the Mirror that Miss Martinez is in the process of selling the flat bought for her, and is hoping to move to the UK ‘to be nearer to Gary Glitter.’