Researcher Bernardo Braga Pasqualette, who is in the process of completing a biography on actress Daniella Perez, said he received threats from Juliana Lacerda, current wife of Guilherme de Pádua, so that he would not publish the work, which is published by Record becomes.
“He’s going to stop this book,” says one of the messages that this reporter had access to, which she sent to the author through a social network. “His lawyer will sort it all out. Let’s talk super bad and sue.”
The freed Guilherme de Pádua was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the murder of Daniella Perez, his partner on the soap opera De Corpo e Alma. On January 28, 1992, the body of the actress was found in a thicket in Barra da Tijuca, west of Rio, wounded by 18 lunges, mainly focused on the heart region.
The story is commemorated in the documentary miniseries Pacto Brutal, which premiered this week on HBO Max, directed by Guto Barra and Tatiana Issa. In parallel and after the 30th anniversary of the crime, Pasqualette is preparing the book “Daniella Perez: Biography, Crime and Justice”, which tells the life of the actress, who died at the age of 22, and her backstage story murder and the trial of the accused. .
De Pádua was at the time married to Paula Thomaz, who was also convicted and is also serving a sentence for the murder. In 2017, the former actor and now Baptist minister married Juliana Lacerda, who usually speaks for her husband, removed from social media of her own volition.
Pasqualette, the author of a biography of former President Figueiredo called “Forget Me,” has tried to speak to everyone involved in the case for the past few years, but neither the convict nor soap opera writer Gloria Perez, the mother of the suspect actress, accepted. Grant interviews. This week, the journalist tried again to sue Guilherme de Pádua through Juliana’s social networks and received threats in response.
‘Guilherme has lawyers and I speak to you with great respect [para ter] be careful with your book,” reads one of the messages the author received from the exactor’s nowwife. “You won’t be able to talk about his name. God have mercy because he and I don’t like it at all.”
Pasqualette says that as a researcher he could not help but give the convicts and their defense the opportunity to speak at work. “I don’t understand the reason for the threats, but I’m not afraid of them either,” he says. “I do my work as a nonfiction author with courtesy, seriousness and, above all, frankness. I won’t change.”
Paulo Ramalho, the lawyer for Guilherme de Pádua in the Daniella Perez murder trial, says he is surprised by the news that his former client’s wife is threatening censorship. “I think that’s nonsense. The judiciary will certainly not ban anything.”
He also recalled that in the 1990s the former actor also tried to publish a book, A História que o Brasil Desconknowledge, in which he told his version of the crime, but the work was canceled after a request from Gloria Perez drawn to traffic. victim’s mother.
“Guilherme himself was censored, he fought for the right to publish a work and now he wants to fight for the rights of others?” asks Ramalho. “It seems that people don’t understand freedom of expression and only support it to the extent that they support it.”
Five years ago, De Pádua became pastor of the Lagoinha Baptist Church in his hometown of Belo Horizonte. He gave few interviews about the case, but his name keeps popping up, including when he created a YouTube channel to talk about his religious conversion. In one of his last public appearances in 2020, he took to the streets for a proBolsonaro protest.