Xavier Ortiz

Xavier Ortiz Ramírez (June 29, 1962 or 1972 – September 7, 2020) was a Mexican actor, singer, model, producer, TV host, dentist/surgeon and entrepreneur and owner of bar-restaurant La Santa Bar in Guadalajara, Mexico. A former member of the 8-piece musical group Garibaldi, on April 17, 1999, he married another former member of the group Garibaldi, Patricia Manterola. Their relationship lasted 15 years, including 10 years as a couple and 5 years as husband and wife.

With Garibaldi he filmed Dónde quedó la bolita and after he left the band made three telenovelas with Televisa. He was part of the cast of the film Journey from the Fall and the Mexican production of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead.

Ortiz died on September 7, 2020, in Guadalajara. According to his sister, Olga Ortiz Ramirez, he committed suicide by hanging as he was depressed by the COVID-19 pandemic situation, a recent separation from his wife, and a number of other reasons.