Luis Miguel Gonzalez Lucas enjoyed wide popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, becoming a legend on his own as he conquered bulls all over Spain, Portugal, Colombia and other places. He debuted at the age of eleven, and he was active in the card where another legend, Manolete, lost his life.
Gonzalez Lucas was also a socialite, being friends with Pablo Picasso and having a romance with Ava Gardner. In 1954, he married actress Lucia Bose. In 1959, he and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordonez, engaged in a bullfighting rivalry that was chronicled by Ernest Hemingway in his book, The Dangerous Summer. The rivalry consisted of finding out who could kill more bulls in one year. Ordonez won the rivalry.
Gonzalez Lucas had three children with Lucia Bose; one of them, Miguel Bose, (born in Panama City, Panama) is an international singer of great fame across Latin America, which prompted Gonzalez Lucas to remark once that Now Im known as Miguel Bose's father.
He divorced Lucia Bose in 1968, and remarried in 1987, to Rosario Primo de Rivera. In 1971, at the age of 44, he returned to the bullring, and retired for good in 1973.
Gonzalez Lucas died of heart failure.