Gloria Trevi – La Paz Feb. ‘08
Gloria Trevi left Monterrey at the age of 12 to pursue a career in Mexico City, where she met her future manager Sergio Andrade. Before meeting Andrade, she sang and danced on the streets for spare change, teaching aerobics and serving quesadillas at a food stand. In 1985, she was a member of a short-lived girl group named Boquitas Pintadas.
For years, rumors and speculation surrounded Gloria Trevi. But 1998, Sergio Andrade’s former wife published a book how Andrade allegedly pick up teenage girls luring them into a web of sex and slavery by promising to make them superstars. According to the book, named De La Gloria Al Infierno, Trevi was also a willing participant of Andrade’s scams, and she had fallen in love with her manager, supposedly participating in his manager’s sexual orgies and slavery acts with the teenage girls to please him. More below….
Around 1999, many of the girls who were allegedly abused escaped from Andrade and exposed on television stories of horror and violence. Andrade and Trevi fled from Mexico. She was believed to be hiding in McAllen, Texas, stopping in Spain and Chile before they were declared, along with a third accomplice named Mary Boquitas, as fugitives of the Mexican judicial system. Soon after, Karina Yapor, a girl from Chihuahua, Mexico, gave birth to a baby boy she alleged to be Andrade’s son. By this time, Trevi, Boquitas and Andrade were the talk of every Spanish tabloid television show in the United States, and most of Latin America. Trevi, Andrade and the rest of their ‘troop’ soon escaped to Argentina, where the remaining girls escaped.
Before Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were caught, they escaped to Brazil, where they were able to live for several months, until they were finally caught by Brazilian police and arrested. In Brazil, Trevi allegedly enjoyed walking around the neighborhood where she resided, eating at a local bakery every day. When they were captured, the news quickly spread throughout Latin America.
On September 21, 2004, Trevi was acquitted and set free by the court citing lack of evidence. She spent 4 years, 8 months, 8 days incarcerated in Brazil and Mexico.
Upon her release from prison, Trevi quickly hit the studio, recording her latest album, Cómo nace el universo, which scored a decent success in the United States, being certified gold and being nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards. She subsequently embarked upon a nation-wide sold-out tour titled “Trevolucion”. The tour played arenas like El Palacio de Los Deportes in Mexico in front of 14,000+ fans as well as Arena Monterrey with 12,000+ fans in attendance.
Credits: Wikipedia
