Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi has filed a lawsuit in opposition to her former supervisor and music producer Sergio Andrade, claiming he was a “true predator” who subjected Trevi and different women to “complete management and sadistic abuse” within the late Eighties and Nineties.
The submitting additionally serves as a counter-lawsuit to the grievance filed Dec. 30, 2022, by two Jane Does who sued Trevi and Andrade for “grooming” and “exploiting” them after they had been between the ages of 13 and 15 within the early Nineties.
Now, Trevi — who has for a few years categorically denied such claims — alleges within the lawsuit, filed Dec. 27 in Los Angeles, that she can also be one among Andrade’s victims. In line with Trevi’s go well with, Andrade took benefit of his place as a profitable music govt usually known as “Mr. Midas” for with the ability to acknowledge and promote younger, feminine artists promising them to show them into stars.
“That place allowed him to attract many younger women into his sphere of affect, who gathered round him within the hopes that he would information, mentor, and launch their careers in leisure, as he had beforehand completed for others,” the lawsuit reads. “However as soon as these younger women and girls had been drawn into his sphere by goals of stardom, he subjected them to complete management and sadistic abuse – psychological, monetary, bodily, and sexual. Ms. Trevi was a kind of younger ladies.”
In line with Trevi’s lawsuit, the “Todos Me Miran” singer met Andrade as a baby simply as she was gaining recognition in Mexico as a singer, and shortly he took over her profession. “However Andrade additionally acknowledged Ms. Trevi as an remoted and susceptible woman who was straightforward prey to his manipulation, management, and abuse,” Trevi’s lawsuit claims. “He took full benefit, subjecting the rising baby famous person that he had taken on to grotesque abuse calculated to interrupt her spirit.”
The submitting consists of graphic allegations, similar to Trevi being “brutally overwhelmed” by Andrade, at occasions to the purpose of unconsciousness, that she was sexually assaulted by him and raped repeatedly. The abuse inflicted by Andrade “finally drove Ms. Trevi to try suicide,” the go well with states.
Trevi, who’s being represented by Johnny Depp’s former legal professional Camille M. Vásquez, defined in a press release to Billboard that she selected to take authorized motion to struggle for justice. “Nobody ought to must undergo what I skilled and I’m decided to carry the perpetrators accountable for his or her actions,” she expressed.
Vásquez added, “Our consumer, Gloria Trevi, has proven nice power and braveness in stepping ahead and submitting this counterclaim. We’re absolutely ready to current our case and search justice on her behalf.”
Trevi’s authorized woes resurface greater than 20 years after Trevi, Andrade and backup singer María Raquenel Portillo, often known as Mary Boquitas, had been arrested in January 2000 in Rio de Janeiro for allegedly luring younger women right into a cult-like pornographic ring. Former vocalist Karina Yapor, who filed prison fees in opposition to the so-called “Trevi-Andrade clan,” alleged that backup recruits wanting to affix the band had been pressured to have sexual relations with Andrade.
In 2004, Trevi was acquitted by a decide and located not responsible on fees of rape, kidnapping and corruption of minors. This resulted in Trevi’s fast launch from jail in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Trevi’s new lawsuit comes six days after a decide dismissed Portillo’s defamation claims in opposition to the 2 Jane Does after she was sued alongside Trevi and Andrade.
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