Posted on 05/29/2023 5:32:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Attorney Camille Vasquez has spoken out against the sexual abuse lawsuit levied against Gloria Trevi, telling Newsweek that the Mexican pop star is a victim of herself— - and thus should not be compared to Ghislaine Maxwell.
In a lawsuit filed on December 30, two Jane Does alleged that Trevi, now 54, procured them as teenagers in the early 1990s for the benefit of her former producer Sergio Andrade. The complainants allege that the pair used their "role, status, and power" to initiate sexual contact with them over a number of years when they were 13 and 15, respectively.
The Jane Does are introduced in the filing, which has been viewed by Newsweek, as "survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, assault, molestation, and abuse" at the hands of Trevi and Andrade, now 67. It is alleged that much of the abuse took place in Los Angeles County.
The complaint was filed narrowly ahead of the December 31 deadline for California's Child Victims Act, a three-year window that temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse claims in the state. Trevi and Andrade are listed alongside a third defendant, whose name has not been publicly released.
Trevi's legal team has hit back at the allegations, filing a response in court seeking to dismiss the complaint on numerous grounds, including lack of jurisdiction. The filing also seeks to reveal the names of the anonymous plaintiffs.
"This case represents an unjustified attack on a victim of sustained sexual, mental, and physical abuse," reads the filing, which describes Trevi as "one of many young women who suffered years of cruelty and abuse in the 1980s and 1990s at the hands of one of the world's true monsters, Defendant Sergio Andrade - a man convicted of rape and other crimes..."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Yes. Terrible things were done, but nobody did them.
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