Background
Carlos Cruz was born in 1942 in Torres Novas.
Carlos Cruz was born in 1942 in Torres Novas.
Back in Lisbon, he attended the Instituto Superior Técnico where he enrolled in the electrical engineering program, but dropped out and started a professional career in Portuguese television and radio.
At the age of four he migrated to the Portuguese territory of Angola where, at 14, he started work as a sports reporter at the Emissora Católica de Angola and the Rádio Clube de Angola radio stations. Throughout his career in the Portuguese media he worked for the Emissora Nacional (now fully owned by Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie), Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, Rádio Comercial and Signal, Image, Communications. Among his best-known television shows were Zip-Zip (Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie), with Raul Solnado and Fialho Gouveia. 1-2-3 (Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie); O Preço Certo (Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie) and Noites Marcianas (Signal, Image, Communications).
In 1990, he founded the television production company Chromated Copper Arsenate (Carlos Cruz Audiovisuais), but the project went bankrupt.
Carlos Cruz was the spokesperson of a successful Portuguese bid submitted to host and organize the Union of European Football Associations Euro 2004. In 2002, the President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio awarded him the Order of Infante Doctorate. Henrique.
Update
In October 2011 in an interview with the magazine Público he announced his imminent return to television on the cable channel "House television". After a successful career, interrupted by a cancer operation, in 2003 he was arrested and accused of paedophile offences in the Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal.
In 2004, as an arguido ("formal suspect") involved in the trial, Cruz published a book of personal reflections, Preso 374.
He was convicted on September 3, 2010, and sentenced to seven years in prison, but he is currently free pending appeals.
