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.
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.
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.
During his tenure he created the law that forced civil servants to make a sworn statement of goods.
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.
De Camps participated in the general elections of 2016 heading the presidential ballot of his Revolutionary Social Democratic Party.
[5][6] In May 2006, it was detected on De Camps an intestinal occlusion attributed to a diverticulitis, reason by which he required an urgent surgery in the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of New York.