A newly released 911 call captures the son of a billionaire fashion tycoon in tears as he tells emergency dispatchers that his father had “fallen,” according to audio made public Monday.
“I need help, my father has fallen!” Jonathan Andic says in the recording, obtained by the Spanish newspaper El País. “We are in Collbató, he has fallen down a ravine, please send an ambulance, send someone,” the translated Spanish-language call states.
Jonathan Andic, son of late businessman Isak Andic, is heard telling the operator they were heading toward the Salnitre Caves. As the dispatcher continues asking questions, he says, “I don’t see him, he doesn’t answer.”
Isak Andic, 71, died in December 2024 after falling roughly 500 feet from a cliff while hiking with his son in the mountains near Barcelona. Jonathan Andic, 45, was the only witness to the incident. In May, authorities arrested him after announcing they were examining his father’s death as a possible homicide.
Jonathan Andic, the son of Mango founder Isak Andic, was photographed leaving Juzgado de Instrucción 5 in Martorell after posting €1 million bail on May 19, 2026, in Martorell, near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. The Mossos d’Esquadra said he was arrested in connection with the Dec. 14, 2024 death of his father, who fell from a cliff near the Salnitre Caves in Collbató. The court in Martorell is overseeing the investigation, and Jonathan Andic was his father’s only companion on the day of the fatal fall.
According to Catalunya Ràdio, the emergency call is expected to be one of the key pieces of evidence presented by the defense.
“My father has fallen, I can’t see him, he doesn’t answer me, he has fallen down the ravine, I don’t know where he is,” Jonathan can reportedly be heard saying.
Jonathan Andic, the son of the founder of Mango, testifies before the Juzgado de Instruccion 5 de Martorell, on May 19, 2026, in Martorell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. (David Oller/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Jonathan, who took over the global fashion empire with his sisters after their dad’s death, was released on one million euros bail and ordered to surrender his passport while remaining in Spain during the investigation, Reuters reported.
The younger Andic has denied wrongdoing, and the family has maintained his innocence.
“There is no legitimate evidence against him, nor will any be found,” the Andic family said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The fatal fall was initially treated as an accident, but now authorities have launched a homicide investigation.
The president and founder of Mango, Isak Andic, during the award ceremony for the 8th Kingdom of Spain Business Career Achievement Award (Iese), at the IESE Business School Barcelona North Campus, on March 18, 2024, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. (Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Isak, who was born in Istanbul, moved to Catalonia in the northeast of Spain in the 1960s and founded Mango in 1984. He built it into a global group seen as a rival to Zara.
Isak was considered one of Spain’s richest businessmen and built Mango into one of Europe’s largest clothing retailers with a presence in more than 100 countries.
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At the time of his death, he was non-executive chairman of Mango with a net worth of $4.5 billion according to Forbes
Jonathan Andic is the eldest of Isak Andic’s three children and one of his father’s heirs. He has been the vice chairman of the board at Mango.
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News Agency has reached out to Mango and defense lawyer Cristobal Martell for comment.
