Throughout her 50-year artistic career, Erika Buenfil has been popular not only as a soap opera protagonist — though she doesn’t equal the record set by “La Queen” Victoria Ruffo — but also for having some very notorious (and documented) romances and courtships with Celebrities who have accompanied the royal blonde for decades.
Erika Buenfil on a red carpet in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Univision)
Perhaps the most notorious, lengthy, and infamous (because there were a lot of twists and turns, thunders and reconciliations, dimes, diretes, and even a planned wedding that was canceled at five for eight, things that were reported by newspapers and magazines at the time ) was with former singer Oscar Athié, who had spectacular radio success in the 80’s with ‘Photography’ (remember the phrase ‘Flaco, gaunt, tired and without illusions’?) and between 1983 and 1987 Erikas partner was. although that year, when the wedding was already scheduled in port of Acapulco, they left for good when Athié found out from reporters that Erika had received the attention of Victor Hugo O’Farrill, one of the most powerful old guard executives of Televisa in restaurants in the capital and even gave him a Ford Thunderbird of the Year, painted pastel pink (the color Buenfil was obsessed with at the time) in the style of Penélope Glamur’s sports car in ‘Los autos loc Sie’.
Athié severed all ties with Buenfil and for a few months established herself as the queen and mistress of the Televisa forums: it was the year she starred in the telenovela Amor en Silencio alongside Penichon (Arturo Peniche). , produced by Karla Estrada, which had a monumental hit when the characters got married midway through the novel (the marriage was widely advertised to attract audiences) and midway through the wedding, boom!, he killed her.
This ruse, which opened the second part of the soap opera, made for a hit: And the theme was Erika (who played Erika’s identical daughter) falling in love with Omar Fierro, who was the second part’s heartthrob and had recently been divorced. He agreed to an affair with her (which got them lots and lots of free publicity), but O’Farrill got angry, insulted, and went cold turkey by trading her in for a then very fresh, youthful and funny Salma Hayek, the it became queen from the Telenovela model ’89 with ‘Teresa’, while Erika went to the Televisa fridge for a time (until ‘Vida Robada’, 1991).
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The worst part is that Erika, who fell from grace, lost interest from Omar Fierro, who fell into the arms of Verónica Castro (who was the absolute queen of television, not just soap operas) and she ended up alone while her career stopped and ridiculed by the media (that’s the year she got the idea to compete in an OTI festival qualifier and (sic) sing a horrible song called “Your half-hearted love does not”. I’m interested’, which would presumably be dedicated to Fierro, but you know old gossip is practically legend).
This is also the time when the “love affair” (as she calls it) with Luis Miguel is said to have taken place, which has regained relevance after the “Güera” posted a photo on her Instagram platform (the only evidence that exists) . a meeting with Luis Miguel, whom he has called “the love of my life” on other occasions, as well as Lucía Méndez, who also boasts of having been to El Sol “for the first time”).
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But you have to go in parts: It is well known that Luis Miguel has been an unrepentant conqueror for years and that he has kissed/hiked/slept/dinner/partyed with dozens (if not hundreds) of beautiful women and/or with dozens ( if not hundreds) speaking from Stephanie Salas to Mariah Carey, through Sofia Vergara, Daisy Fuentes, Mirka DeLlanos, Sasha Sokol, Yuri, Lucerito, Aracely Arámbula, plus a long long long etc. So it wouldn’t be surprising if if he had actually met Erika Buenfil in 1990.
Well, according to sources close to the sun — mainly Jorge Van Rankin “El Burro,” who was his close friend at the time and at the time wanted to clear things up for TVyNovelas about this rumor and ended up making an even worse mess — Luis Miguel, who being almost seven years younger than Buenfil, she met her in Acapulco at the mythical (and now ruined) Baby’O nightclub, where they danced, drank, kissed and spent an evening together (although no one claims they had relationships) .
A few months later, after lengthy phone calls, they met again after a concert on Luismi’s 20-year tour in Monterrey, and it was she who said intimate relations existed between the two at the luxury hotel where he was staying (Luis Miguel Of course he has never said anything about it or he will say it like he has never said it about anyone, he is not a loose mouth and the women who were really important in his life are already, albeit in disguise, in the three seasons of his salacious bioseries).
After this meeting, Buenfil and Luismi did not see each other again. He began an international tour and only returned to Acapulco in late 1991, when in his column “El Fábrica de Estrellas” Leopoldo Meraz (the late “Reportero Cor” and still powerful in the world of entertainment at the time) recounted that Buenfil appeared at the dockside nightclub where they were meeting with the intention of entering Luis Miguel’s permanent private room. But he ordered her to block the entrance with his security elements, and even when she called him out, the interpreter of “I am as I want to be” never came out to greet her, and Buenfil followed with her, humiliated and offended home heart presumably broken.
Years of this gossip have passed (Van Rankin confirmed the note) and while the actress has become a single mom and is now the queen of TikTok (something even her rival Ruffo couldn’t take from her), Luis Miguel is in a lapsed era of fairly browns his career. The only thing that is certain is that no matter what happened, she remembers him fondly and she shows it.