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Birth Name: Milagros Ninnete Corretjer Maldonado
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date of Birth: April 18, 1974
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican (Spanish [including Andalusian, Asturian, Canary Islander], Catalan, possibly other), some French
Millie Corretjer is a Puerto Rican singer and actress.
She is the daughter of Milagros Maldonado and Jesús Francisco Corretjer. She is married to American professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya , with whom she has three children. Her step-daughter is model and socialite Atiana De La Hoya .
All of Millie’s paternal great-grandparents were listed as “White” on civil records.
Millie’s paternal grandfather was Juan Antonio Corretjer y Montes, who was a poet (the son of Diego Corretjer y Hernández and María Brígida Montes y González). Juan Antonio was born in Ciales, Puerto Rico, and was a poet, journalist, and pro-independence political activist, who opposed U.S. rule in Puerto Rico. Diego was the son of a Spanish emigrant, Antoni Corretjer i Caire (or Antonio Corretjer y Caire in Spanish), of Pineda del Mar, Barcelona, and of María Dolores del Río Hernández y Gerena. Millie’s great-grandmother María Brígida was the daughter of Juan Montes y Núñez and Baldomera González y Manzano.
Millie’s paternal grandmother was Camila Ruiz y Curbelo (the daughter of Ricardo Ruiz y Mari and Camila Curbelo y González). Millie’s grandmother Camila was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ricardo was the son of a Spanish emigrant, Antonio Ruiz, of Andalusia, and of a Martinican emigrant, Marie-Louise Mari (or María Luisa Mari in Spanish), of Martinique. Millie’s great-grandmother Camila was born in Canary Islands, Spain, the daughter of Baltazar Curbelo y Delgado and Agapita González y del Pino.
Sources: Marriage record of Millie’s paternal grandparents, Juan Antonio Corretjer y Montes and Camila Ruiz y Curbelo – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Millie’s paternal great-grandparents, Diego Corretjer y Hernández and María Brígida Montes y González – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Millie’s paternal great-grandfather, Diego Corretjer y Hernández – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Millie’s paternal great-grandmother, María Brígida Montes y González – https://familysearch.org
Millie’s paternal great-great-grandparents, Juan Montes y Núñez and Baldomera González y Manzano, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Millie’s paternal grandmother, Camila Ruiz y Curbelo – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Millie’s paternal great-grandfather, Ricardo Ruiz y Mari – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Millie’s paternal great-grandmother, Camila Curbelo y González – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Millie’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Agapita González y del Pino – https://familysearch.org