He was born on 29 June 1947, in
Cotuí (then in the province of
La Vega, at present in the province of
Sánchez Ramírez). His father was
Miguel Ángel de Camps Cortes, a Dominican politician of
Catalan descent, deputy
consul-general in
Hamburg and
ambassador to
Nicaragua, landowner, violinist and founding member of the National Symphonic Orchestra. His mother was Orfelina Jiménez Jerez, a teacher. His first born son is Raul de Camps Narpier, whom he had with the journalist and TV Producer Irene Narpier. In the late seventies he married Dominican actress and singer , with whom had two sons: Hatuey and Luis Miguel de Camps García, afterwards divorced. Then he married television presenter, TV producer and former
Miss Dominican Republic 1980 Milagros Germán, with whom he had three children: Milagros Marina, Álvaro Hatuey, and Andreas Salomé de Camps Germán. Germán and De Camps divorced in 1990. He married for a third time, with the American heiress Dominique Blühdorn, daughter of the Frenchwoman Yvette M. LeMarrec (a native of
Paris) and the Austrian investor
Karl G. Blühdorn (a native of
Vienna), founder of the extinct
Gulf and Western, and developer in Dominican Republic of
Casa de Campo and
Heights of Chavón. With Blühdorn he has fathered four children, three of them
triplets: Gabriela Yvette, Charles, Alexandra and Olivia. De Camps has ten children in total from his three marriages. He earned a Doctor in Philosophy and Letters from the
Universidad Complutense of Madrid in Spain and graduated in economic planning and development, in the Institute for the Development of the Area Iberoamericana (ISDIBER).
Politics With the arrival of the
Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) to the Dominican Republic, orients to the political activity. He was one of the most emblematic figures of the PRD. In April 1965, he founded the Student Revolutionary Front Nationalist (FREN). He matriculated into the
Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, enrolled in 1965-66, and there he combined his studies in
philosophy with the student fight for a university budget of half a million
pesos per month. He became the president of the Federation of Dominican Students, and as president, he pronounced the
eulogy at the funeral of the leader and student mate
Amín Abel Hasbún murdered during the
Twelve Years of
Joaquín Balaguer. Deputy to the National Congress in 1978, he occupied the offices of General Director of Radio-Televisión Dominicana by month and a half in an honorific manner. In 1979 he was elected president (speaker) of the
Chamber of Deputies, position that he held until 1982. During his tenure he created the law that forced civil servants to make a sworn statement of goods. In 1982, he became secretary (minister) of the presidency in the government of the Dr.
Salvador Jorge Blanco. He was the organiser of the funerals of the Dr.
José Francisco Peña Gómez, in which the humble populace gave in tribute the most multitudinous sign of love, accompanying him until the graveyard, place in that he gave him the last goodbye to his fellow of always and where the national political leadership and international of all the nuances surrendered the most extraordinary posthumous tribute to any leader.
Departure from the Dominican Revolutionary Party Afterwards of intense contradictions with the then president of the Republic and copartisan
Hipólito Mejía, because of De Camps's posture of no reelection, Hatuey in the 2003–2004 called the population to vote for the
Devil before Hipólito. This caused more grudges between them. He was secretary general of the Dominican Revolutionary Party and chairman of the party until 2004. He quit from the PRD since the high leadership, had moved away of the ideals of his historical leader Dr. Peña Gómez. Because of this De Camps established the
Revolutionary Social Democratic Party. == He promoted as deputy ==