In this Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias smiles during his star unveiling ceremony at the Walk of Fame in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cuban songwriter Mimi Korman filed a lawsuit on Monday, March 19, 2018, in Miami claiming that she wrote Iglesias’ Spanish classic “Me olvidé de vivir.” (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
The title of Julio Iglesias’s hit song “Me Olvide de Vivir” translates to “I Had Forgotten to Live.”
But a Miami songwriter’s copyright infringement lawsuit suggests the only thing the famed crooner “forgot” was to pay his collaborator. Mimi Korman filed suit in federal court in Miami on March 19, alleging Iglesias approached her in 1978 to write Spanish lyrics to his now-famous song.
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