Two former employees of Julio Iglesias, who accused the Spanish singer of alleged sexual assault and forced labor, asked the Spanish justice system on Friday to guarantee their rights and investigate the new complaint filed this month.

Both filed another complaint against the artist on September 3, after the first one they presented was dismissed in January. At that time, the Spanish justice system considered itself incompetent to judge events that would have occurred in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.

The two women claim they suffered sexual assaults and mistreatment while working at Iglesias's properties in those two countries in 2021.

Julio Iglesias, 82, who has sold more than 300 million records, called those accusations "absolutely false" and denied "having abused, coerced or disrespected any woman."

The two former employees are now publishing an open letter, released this Friday through the NGO Women's Link Worldwide — which represents them legally — asking that the events included in their new complaint be investigated.

In the letter, addressed "to the Spanish justice system," the plaintiffs state they are "two strong Latin American women, with dreams, with courage and with the hope of finding justice in dignity."

"We are not asking for something exceptional or a favor. We are asking that the rights that States, including Spain, have committed to uphold be recognized and guaranteed to us: to investigate, protect and guarantee people's right to justice," they add.

According to Women's Link Worldwide earlier this month, in the new complaint the two women accuse Iglesias of having subjected them to alleged "situations of continuous harassment and sexual assault" and of having "imposed forced and degrading working conditions."

The organization stated at the time that Spanish courts are competent under a law that "allows the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed outside national territory when relevant links to Spain exist."

In January, the prosecutor's office of the National Court, a court in Madrid specializing in complex cases and crimes committed by Spaniards abroad, had indicated that its decision to dismiss the complaint did not prevent them from filing another before other jurisdictions.

Born in 1943, Julio Iglesias became famous especially in Spain and Latin America with songs such as "Soy un truhán, soy un señor," "Gwendolyne" and "Me olvidé de vivir."