In the documentary series Brutal Pact: The Assassination of Daniella Perez, Gloria Perez gives her explanation for the murder of her 22yearold daughter on the night of December 28, 1992.
The author of the novel De Corpo e Alma believes that Guilherme de Pádua pressured Daniella to get her characters Bira and Yasmin together.
The situation what today would be called bullying became so serious that he feared the actress would do anything to harm him at Globo.
“I think he went too far with that pressure on Dani and was afraid she would tell me and her husband (actor Raul Gazella). And that’s why he thought his career was over,” says Gloria in the HBO Max production.
With this in mind, Guilherme de Padua killed Daniella Perez to ensure the continuity of his burgeoning career in television. It would have been motivated by the ambition to succeed. “My daughter was killed out of greed,” says the novelist.
Gloria believes that lust for fame and success led to her daughter’s murder
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Less than 3 hours before the crime, the two recorded the sequence in which Yasmin broke up with Bira. At the time, director Fábio Sabag told Globo Repórter that Guilherme cried a lot after the scene in the studio.
In the same report by journalist Marcelo Rezende, chamberlains Walfredo Rosário and Geralda Fernandes reported that the actor was excited that day and kept trying to talk to Daniella backstage.
Two other versions of Daniella Perez’s death were leaked by the press at the time: a pact between the couple over Paula Thomaz’s unhealthy jealousy and a satanic ritual to ensure Guilherme de Pádua’s success on television.