Mexico's Madonna free at last in climax to real-life soap

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As Gloria Trevi is freed after nearly five years, fans turn angrily on backing singer who accused her

Jo Tuckman in Mexico
Thursday September 23, 2004
The Guardian


Former Mexican pop phenomenon Gloria Trevi has been released from prison after nearly five years, cleared of kidnapping, corruption of minors, and complicity to rape charges. The case has absorbed Mexico since it broke in 1998. The verdict, read out in a jail courthouse with Trevi listening behind a white wire mesh cage fondling a rosary, was broadcast live on national television.

Trevi, now 36, who earned the moniker "Mexico's Madonna" - left the jail in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua on Tuesday night to the cheers of a small group of fans gathered outside.

She promised a new album soon of songs composed in jail.

"After four years, eight months and eight days in prison, justice has been done," Trevi told Mexican news anchorman Joaquín Lopez Doriga just before leaving jail.

Impeccably groomed and clearly delighted, the one-time symbol of irreverence mentioned God in almost every utterence.
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