She got out of bed and dragged a steel chair over to the windows where she was now backlit by the afternoon sun. She draped her hair to one side, changed her mind, arranged it forward again. Hair, make-up, lighting - perfect. All this stage-management was bewildering - she was under guard in a hospital, after all - but effective in at least one way: she looked a decade younger than her 34 years (she claims to be 32) and unmarked by either the ordeal she'd been through or the one that was rapidly approaching: later this spring, Trevi could be sent home to face accusations of rape and kidnapping on what would undoubtedly be Mexico's trial of the century.
Gloria Trevi has been the biggest name in mexican entertainment for more than a decade, the multi-platinum singer who brought Girl Power to Mexico and made herself an idol to millions of Latin American teenagers. Following her debut album in 1989, the 'Mexican Madonna' became a sensation whose every project - films, calendars, television specials, a magazine devoted to all things Trevi - both provoked and sold tremendously well. Trevimania was so intense, in fact, that authorities were slow to react when stories began circulating in the late 1990s that something dark was going on with all those young girls in her entourage.
Rumour had it that her manager, Sergio Andrade, was the head of a sex cult that abducted teenage girls. Trevi was Andrade's henchwoman, some whispered; others claimed that for all her wealth and she-devil stage antics, Trevi was actually just Andrade's submissive pet.
Jan 14, 2000 Mexican Star in Sex Case Is Arrested in Rio. The charges against Mr. Andrade and Ms. Trevi, whose real name is Gloria de los Angeles Trevino, were first brought by the parents of Karina Yapor Gomez, whose family sent her to study piano at a school run by Mr. Andrade when she was 12. In 1997, when she was 15, Miss Yapor.