Angelita Trujillo (10 June 1939 â 21 August 2023) was a Dominican writer who was most known as the daughter of the former Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Angelita Trujillo was born MarÃÂa de los ÃÂngeles del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Trujillo MartÃÂnez on June 10, 1939 in the affluent Parisien suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Daughter of the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo and his third wife MarÃÂa de los ÃÂngeles MartÃÂnez y Alba, known as la Españolita because of her Spanish origin, Trujillo enjoyed a privileged childhood. She was a special envoy of the Dominican government to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1953. Two years later, the Fair for the Peace and Fraternity of the Free World, was held in Trujillo City (present-day Santo Domingo) where the 16-year-old Angelita, was crowned as "Queen Angelita I" to preside over the world's fair.
After her fatherâÂÂs assassination in 1961, the Trujillo family went into exile to Paris and later to Madrid. In Spain, Trujillo divorced Colonel Luis José León Estévez. After seven years in Madrid, Trujillo moved to New York City, where she met Colonel Luis José DomÃÂnguez RodrÃÂguez, and married him.
Trujillo married Luis José León Estévez and Luis José DomÃÂnguez RodrÃÂguez, both colonels of the Dominican Air Force. León Estévez hailed from Canca La Piedra in Tamboril (Santiago Province) and was the son of Manuel de Jesús León Jimenes and Dolores Ercilia Estévez Cabrera; DomÃÂnguez RodrÃÂguez was native to Gurabo (Santiago Province) and his parents were José Ramón DomÃÂnguez Méndez and Mercedes Cervanda RodrÃÂguez Taveras.
From her first marriage, she had three children: Luis José, Rafael Leónidas, and MarÃÂa de los ÃÂngeles (b. Santo Domingo, April 1961; federal attorney and lawyer in the United States, she changed her surnames to "DomÃÂnguez Trujillo");, from her second marriage, she had a daughter MarÃÂa Mercedes, son Ramfis DomÃÂnguez-Trujillo (b. New York, 1970; presidential candidate to the Dominican Republic general election, 2020), and daughters MarÃÂa Laura and MarÃÂa Julia DomÃÂnguez-Trujillo.
Angelita Trujillo lived in Miami, Florida during most of her exile. She died there, on 21 August 2023, at the age of 84.