Gloria Trevi is once again at the center of controversy. The Mexican singer surprised public opinion a week ago by suing her former agent and producer Sergio Andrade for rape for the first time. An allegation made a year after both were charged in a Los Angeles court with corruption of minors by two women, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, who requested anonymity. The allegations are not new, but a shadow that has followed the singer for decades. The victims are associated with the sexual exploitation network that hid for years behind the music education program promoted by Andrade. The producer used the character of Gloria Trevi as bait to attract girls and young people. This week, two more women, Jane Doe 3, “younger sister of Jane Doe 1,” and Jane Doe 4, filed a new civil lawsuit for sex crimes against the artist and producer, deepening the rift even further and bringing old ghosts back from prison Past. .
Gloria Trevi, who has also identified herself as Andrade's victim for years, filed a civil countersuit in California on December 28 to defend herself against the allegations made by Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. Trevi's role remains controversial in the chain of abuse of Andrade, who has already served a six-year prison sentence for kidnapping, sexual abuse and human trafficking. The artist was acquitted without charge in 2004 after spending four years in preventive detention.
The complainants, her former showgirls, insist she was also responsible for the violence they experienced. In her new complaint, Trevi, 13 years younger than Andrade, claims that she was also captured as a teenager and suffered the same abuses as the other girls: rape, flogging, beatings, psychological violence and forced abortions, among other humiliations. The singer claims Andrade was the “true predator” while she was the victim of “grotesque abuse aimed at breaking her spirit.” The artist also pointed out in her lawsuit that Andrade kept all of the money she earned for years. “Instead of living the luxurious lifestyle one would expect from the 'Madonna of Mexico,' Trevi often wore old clothes in private and was sometimes forced to sleep naked on a frozen bathroom floor for days,” the complaint said.
The latest lawsuit filed by Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4 puts Trevi and Andrade back in the spotlight as leaders of the sexual exploitation network. The new allegations come as a result of a temporary law in the US state of California that creates a review window for cases of sexual abuse against adults that were attempted to be covered up and that occurred years ago.
In her complaint, Jane Doe 3 says Gloria Trevi told her that her older sister would be expelled from the group if she rejected Andrade's advances. One day in 1995, when she was over 18 but still a virgin, the singer took her to the producer's room. “He pushed Jane Doe 3 in and closed the door,” says the document obtained by Rolling Stone magazine and accessed by this newspaper. “Trevi stood at the door while Andrade sexually assaulted Jane Doe 3. When the attack ended, Jane Doe left the bedroom and Trevi said to her, “Thank you, you just saved your sister, you won't regret it.” [Andrade] “He is a wonderful man and he is the person I love the most,” the singer reportedly said.
The complainants claim they were forced to have group sex with Andrade, with Trevi being his accomplice. “Defendant Andrade sexually assaulted Plaintiff Jan Doe 3 and solicited her to engage in sexual acts with him and the victims,” the lawsuit states. “Defendant Trevi participated willingly and enthusiastically in the events and touched other women and girls of her own free will, without instructions from defendant Andrade.” The woman says she was abused for years until the group was arrested in 2000 following an international arrest warrant Interpol arrested in Brazil.
The lawsuit also accuses dancer María Raquenel Portillo, known as “Mary Boquitas,” of sexual assault and recruiting young girls. “Jane Doe 3 was subjected to years of subjugation, abuse, threats and violence from Trevi, Andrade and Raquenel,” the document says. Portillo, Andrade's second wife, recently told the En Boca Cerrada podcast produced by Univisión how the producer married her when she was only 15 years old, following the same pattern as the others: he separated her from her family and subjugated her them to everything. Kind of beatings and humiliations. In a horrifying passage, the woman recounts how one day he even forced her to eat her own vomit.
“[Andrade] “He impregnated dozens of young women and girls and then, with the help of third parties, forced or manipulated them into having abortions,” Gloria Trevi’s complaint states. The singer said she was forced to have an abortion in the USA in the 1990s. “Such abortions were motivated, in whole or in part, to keep their sexual abuse secret,” the lawsuit says.
“Andrade played a sadistic game with these beatings: Trevi had to take beatings in silence, and when she cried, sighed or showed signs of discomfort, he took it as an insult and the punishment began again.” During the beating, Trevi fell into pain fainting. When she regained consciousness, she lay on the floor with Andrade and sexually assaulted her,” the artist’s complaint continues. Trevi says psychological, physical and sexual abuse once led her to attempt suicide. In a statement shared with the media, he noted that he had remained silent about the abuse throughout in order to avoid reliving the “horrible experiences” he had gone through and to “protect his children and family.”
The singer has sought defamation damages from both Andrade and plaintiffs Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, calling one of those women Andrade's “direct accomplice.” Since his release from prison, the producer has long been lost like a ghost. He continues to live in Mexico and continues to give music and acting lessons after prison. This week, entertainment journalist Gustavo Adolfo Infante leaked that the producer would plead guilty to all charges in the US and name Gloria Trevi as his accomplice.
For more than two decades, the case has roiled public opinion and been treated with very little rigor and a lot of morbidity by the tabloid press in Mexico. The media has never shown respect to the victims, on the contrary, they have focused on bringing to light the most brutal details and promoted confrontation between victims in order to sell hours of front pages on television and in magazines. The case is accompanied by sensationalism and a lack of perspective, although it is just as serious as the sexual abuse committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Jean Succar Kuri, the La Luz del Mundo church or the NEXIVM sect. The final chapter of this story has yet to be written.
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