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 ladies to “total control and sadistic abuse” in the late Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
The submitting additionally serves as a counter-lawsuit to the criticism filed Dec. 30, 2022, by two Jane Does who sued Trevi and Andrade for “grooming” and “exploiting” them once they had been between the ages of 13 and 15 in the early Nineteen Nineties.
Now, Trevi — who has for a few years categorically denied such claims — alleges in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 27 in Los Angeles, that she can be one among Andrade’s victims. According to Trevi’s swimsuit, Andrade took benefit of his place as a profitable music govt typically known as “Mr. Midas” for with the ability to acknowledge and promote younger, feminine artists promising them to show them into stars.
“That position allowed him to draw many young girls into his sphere of influence, who gathered around him in the hopes that he would guide, mentor, and launch their careers in entertainment, as he had previously done for others,” the lawsuit reads. “But once these young girls and women had been drawn into his sphere by dreams of stardom, he subjected them to total control and sadistic abuse – mental, financial, physical, and sexual. Ms. Trevi was one of those young women.”
According to 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. “But Andrade also recognized Ms. Trevi as an isolated and vulnerable girl who was easy prey to his manipulation, control, and abuse,” Trevi’s lawsuit claims. “He took full advantage, subjecting the rising child superstar that he had taken on to grotesque abuse calculated to break her spirit.”
The submitting contains graphic allegations, comparable to Trevi being “brutally beaten” by Andrade, at instances to the purpose of unconsciousness, that she was sexually assaulted by him and raped repeatedly. The abuse inflicted by Andrade “eventually drove Ms. Trevi to attempt suicide,” the swimsuit states.
Trevi, who’s being represented by Johnny Depp’s former lawyer Camille M. Vásquez, defined in an announcement to Billboard that she selected to take authorized motion to struggle for justice. “No one should have to go through what I experienced and I am determined to hold the perpetrators accountable for their actions,” she expressed.
Vásquez added, “Our client, Gloria Trevi, has shown great strength and courage in stepping forward and filing this counterclaim. We are fully prepared to present our case and seek justice on her behalf.”
Trevi’s authorized woes resurface greater than 20 years after Trevi, Andrade and backup singer María Raquenel Portillo, also referred to as Mary Boquitas, had been arrested in January 2000 in Rio de Janeiro for allegedly luring younger ladies right into a cult-like pornographic ring. Former vocalist Karina Yapor, who filed prison expenses in opposition to the so-called “Trevi-Andrade clan,” alleged that backup recruits wanting to hitch the band had been compelled to have sexual relations with Andrade.
In 2004, Trevi was acquitted by a choose and located not responsible on expenses of rape, kidnapping and corruption of minors. This resulted in Trevi’s rapid launch from jail in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Trevi’s new lawsuit comes six days after a choose dismissed Portillo’s defamation claims in opposition to the 2 Jane Does after she was sued alongside Trevi and Andrade.
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