Mexican singer and actress Gloria Trevi is facing new child sex trafficking charges, two decades after she was arrested in Brazil. The allegations are part of a new civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles court that brings to light allegations that Trevi groomed minors and prostituted them for producer Sergio Andrade.
The new complaint, obtained by Rolling Stone magazine, was filed under a law that temporarily lifts the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse and assault charges in the state of California. Neither Trevi nor Andrade are named by name in the lawsuit, but it’s clear the two are the primary defendants given the details of the lawsuit, which include information about concerts Trevi gave in the 1990s and albums he recorded.
According to the lawsuit, two women — identified as “Jane Doe 1” and “Jane Doe 2” — say they were 13 and 15, respectively, when Trevi approached them in public and convinced them to participate in an alleged music training program. , with the promise of turning them into stars. However, what happened was that they were groomed to become the producer’s sex slaves.
By the time the two girls were recruited, Trevi and Andrade had already achieved international fame. It ended up being called “the Mexican version of Madonna”, with Andrade credited as being responsible for her success. However, their careers were rocked by the first wave of sex trafficking allegations brought up by many of their former protégés.
The allegations exploded into an international scandal, with Andrade portrayed as a violent pedophile and Trevi as his accomplice. The two were arrested in Brazil in January 2000 after an international manhunt.
Trevi, who is 54, spent four years in custody but was finally acquitted when a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to support the charges of rape, kidnapping and corruption of minors brought against her . After spending four years awaiting trial, Andrade was convicted of rape, kidnapping and child corruption, but ended up spending just one more year in prison.
The singer has always claimed to be innocent. After her release in 2004, she moved to the United States, married a lawyer and moved to Texas. Today she has 5 million Instagram followers and continues to tour and appear on TV. Her latest albums, “Una Rosa Blue” (2007) and “Gloria” (2011), were huge successes. Subsequently, she also participated in the soap opera “Libre para Amarte” (2013) and in the series “A Casa das Flores” (2019), on Netflix.
At the 2018 Latin American Music Awards, Trevi defended himself against the allegations. “I was not an accomplice. I was 15, with a 12-year mentality, when I met a great producer. He immediately tried to become a mirage of love and pretended to be my only chance to make my dreams come true,” he said of Andrade. “I was 15 when I started living with manipulations, beatings, screams, abuse, punishments. And it was 17 years of humiliation”.
Despite these declarations, her return to career and having kept away from Andrade – after allegedly giving birth to her child while incarcerated in Brazil – Trevi is now under accusation again by her side, for events that took place at the end of the 80s and early 90s.
“[Trevi e Andrade] used their role, status and power as a well known and successful Mexican pop star and famous producer to gain access, rule, manipulate and exploit [as vítimas] and forcing sexual contact with them for years,” argues the civil action, seeking real and punitive damages.
The lawsuit also mentions a third defendant who worked with Trevi and Andrade as a choreographer, dancer and assistant, but the individual is not identified.
Earlier, Andrade admitted that he had sex with Karina Yapor, the lead accuser behind his previous criminal conviction, when he was 13 years old. However, during the trial he denied raping her or holding her against her will.
Yapor claimed she was essentially kidnapped at age 12 and brainwashed into becoming a member of Andrade’s harem with Trevi, who was in her 20s at the time and played a key role in child care . At the age of 15, Yapor gave birth to Andrade’s son in Spain. She abandoned the child there in 1998, at Andrade’s request, as reported in her book “Revelaciones” (2001).
According to the new complaint, Jane Doe 1 was 15 years old in the summer of 1991 and living with her family in Puebla, Mexico when her mother took her to an event where she hoped to meet Gloria Trevi. The young victim was dancing and singing along with a group of fans outside Andrade’s Mexico City office when Trevi emerged and allegedly accosted her.
Trevi allegedly told Jane Doe 1 that she was “a very good and very beautiful dancer” and invited her to audition. Believing the offer was her opportunity for stardom, Jane Doe 1 moved to Mexico City for what she and her mother thought was a training program.
The suit also alleges that the seemingly “idyllic” living arrangement took a dark turn when Trevi visited the teenager in a room at the Hotel del Bosque in late 1991 or early 1992 and said Andrade was “extremely disturbed” for a friendship of Jane Doe 1 with a young man of the group.
Andrade allegedly had rules prohibiting this type of friendship, and Trevi allegedly told the teenager that she would have to leave the crew unless she could convince Andrade to let her stay. “I don’t want you to go, you have to talk to us [Andrade]do what it takes, what he asks of you… because I want you to stay”, Trevi would have told her.
Jane Doe 1 tearfully went to Andrade’s hotel room and was told there that “if she was going to stay in the group, she was going to have to have sex with him,” the lawsuit alleges. “[Jane Doe 1] I didn’t want to have sex with [Andrade]but i felt extreme pressure because i admire her [Trevi] and [Andrade]that they were adults, and she wanted to stay in the group and didn’t know what else to do.”
Andrade allegedly forced Jane Doe 1 to be sexually assaulted that night and then manipulated or “forced” her into a series of assaults and rapes that continued until about 2001.
“When [Trevi] realizes that [Jane Doe 1] was at a “breaking point” with abuse, [ela] interceded to manipulate and coerce [Jane Doe 1] stay with the group, not leave, and not tell anyone, causing the sexual abuse to continue,” the lawsuit states.”[Ela] I’d say [Jane Doe 1] that the outside world was much worse than being with the group”.
Trevi allegedly told Jane Doe 1 that the group was “family” and that she belonged to that group. “What awaits you if you return to the city of Puebla?” Trevi would ask. “This is your opportunity, so don’t waste it. You will travel, you will make music, you will learn a lot, but you have to do it.”
The lawsuit further alleges that Andrade controlled Jane Doe 1 and other unnamed dancers, subjecting them to “whips, beatings, deprivation of food and forced exercise” if they dared to “thwart” him.
“[Ele] blow [Jane Doe 1] and other young dancers with electric wires until their backs were bleeding and bruised, and a condition of the punishment was that they could not scream or move as he beat them,” he describes the action. “The whipping didn’t stop until they were in silence and motionless as he delivered the blows.”
Jane Doe 1 claims that, in late 1993, she was removed from the stage and assigned to work as Andrade’s assistant and virtual sex slave. She was so traumatized and “broken” by the ongoing sexual and physical abuse that she remained with the group despite feeling “hopeless” and “zombie-like,” the complaint states.
According to Jane Doe 1, her “sexual, physical and mental abuse” continued when she traveled with Trevi and Andrade to Southern California for recording sessions and concerts, such as Trevi’s performance at the famed Roxy Theater on August 31, 1992. The lawsuit claims the abuses continued until 2000, when Andrade was arrested.
Jane Doe 2 was 13 years old in June 1989 when Trevi allegedly saw her outside a Mexico City radio station. Trevi approached her, stated that she was looking for other performers and praised the girl for her “very tall and handsome” appearance of her.
In an “audition” weeks later, Trevi allegedly asked the girl to strip, claiming she stripped down for her own screen test because it was necessary to identify “which parts of her body needed work.” The girl refused to undress, but she sang and danced, and eventually she received a “scholarship” to attend classes with Andrade.
However, Trevi soon began grooming the girl to become Andrade’s “girlfriend”, saying she was the perfect candidate to make him “believe in love again” after another girl of the same age “betrayed” him and had left your heart.
Later that summer, when Jane Doe 2 was still 13, Andrade began sexually assaulting her in an office and apartment in Mexico City. She was 33 at the time and Trevi was 21.
Andrade has reportedly become increasingly abusive and controlling, promising Jane Doe 2 that he would “make her into a star” like Trevi if she met his demands. According to the complaint, he marked an office calendar with dates showing alleged plans to travel to Los Angeles to record his debut album, but allegedly “canceled the date” if she “misbehaved.”
According to the lawsuit, the producer also brutally abused Jane Doe 2, beating her with a belt and punching her, depriving her of food and forbidding her from using the bathroom.
The abuse would still be ongoing when he took her to Los Angeles, between 1990 and 1992, when Trevi was recording his albums “Tu Ángel de la Guarda” and “Mi Siento Tan Sola”. At one point, Jane Doe 2 allegedly called her mother and begged to be rescued from the “bad people” who were holding her captive in Los Angeles. By then, Trevi reportedly spent hours convincing her to stay, stating that she was “very close to finishing her album and realizing her dream of being a singer.”
The assaults continued, and in December 1990, Andrade allegedly married Jane Doe 2 in Mexico when he was 15 to remove her from his mother’s legal custody. Jane Doe 2 agreed to the wedding “because she was terrified of what [Andrade] would do if he refused.” She “ran away” from the crew’s home in Mexico City in December 1992.
Both plaintiffs say they have suffered from “substantial emotional distress, anxiety, nervousness, anger and fear” and have “problems with their personal lives, such as trust and control issues.”
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