Hey - who did it? C'mon now, fess up. Which guard was walking around with a big grin?
Posted on 04/28/2006 6:31:59 PM PDT by doug from upland
Here is the story of the singer who just bastardized our National Anthem. We can't make up this stuff.
Girl Trouble: The True Saga of Superstar Gloria Trevi and the Secret Teenage Sex Cult That Stunned the World
by Christoph Mcdougall
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
How did a chart-topping superstar, whose beauty and artistry were sensational enough to make her both a pinup girl and a feminist icon, end up behind bars in a Brazilian prison, accused of helping to mastermind the kidnap, rape, and brainwashing of nearly a dozen teenage girls?
In a foreshadowing of today's American Idol instant-celebrity machine, international superstar Gloria Trevi and her producer-boyfriend Sergio Andrade started a first-of-its-kind talent school for young girls in search of their own chance at the big time.
Recruited from the most fervent fans at Gloria'ssold-out concerts, teenagers from across Latin America began showing up at her house in Mexico City. Their numbers grew along with Gloria's fame, as hit record followed hit record and Gloria became one of Latin America's top TV and movie attractions. But after a fewyears, bizarre rumors slowly began to spread that the school was actually a front for a sex-slave operation, which tortured and brainwashed the very girls who, more than anything, wanted to be just like their idol, Gloria Trevi.
But how could this happen — and with the world watching? Was Gloria Trevi involved, or was she simply at the mercy of her brilliant manager?In the first-ever level-headed look at this scandalous story, award-winning journalist Christopher McDougall recounts how Gloria Trevi went from obscurity to world fame to eluding authorities for two years, before her final discovery and capture in Brazil.
In what is considered the oddest twist to an already convoluted tale, Trevi found herself mysteriously pregnant in prison, prompting allegations by Brazilian authorities of an impregnation scheme involving Trevi and a notorious Brazilian gangster. Only later would the shocking truth of the baby's paternity emerge. Gloria has since been extradited to her native Mexico, where she is currently awaiting what is sure to be that country's "trial of the century."
Through exclusive behind-bars interviews with both Trevi and Andrade, as well as with the girls who have slowly come forward with their accusations, McDougall reveals the stranger-than-fiction twists in this remarkable tale and offers readers an insider's look at Sergio Andrade's peculiar personal history and how a super-star's celebrity power can control a young girl's mind.
Review:
"In 1985, 15-year-old Gloria Trevi lucked into the final spot in a girl group created by Mexico's hottest young producer, Sergio Andrade. Boquitas Pintadas ('Little Painted Mouths') broke up shortly thereafter, but three years later, after a scandalous television performance, Trevi's self-financed solo album struck gold. McDougall's carefully researched but meandering book follows the charismatic singer's dizzying ascension to stardom and, more interestingly, recounts the fall from grace that landed her in Brazilian prison a decade later. Andrade's evil manipulation and pedophilia are at the heart of this sordid tale, but Trevi's role as a recruiter of adolescent girls for his talent school makes it a real-life horror story. Girls as young as 13 were starved, beaten and forced to have sex with Andrade while their 'classmates' watched. Many became pregnant when Andrade's preferred method of contraception — Coca-Cola douches — failed. Naturally, this is difficult material to stomach, but McDougall's rendering is unnecessarily lurid. His description of a scene in Trevi's third movie sums up his book's central theme: 'Sergio is shitting on everyone he controls and everyone who tries to control him — and Gloria is suspended in his ordure like a fly in amber.' In the end, it's difficult to separate the talented storyteller from his appalling story. Agent, Dan Mandel. (Nov.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Synopsis:
This tawdry true-life tale, as featured in "The New York Times Magazine" and "Dateline" dares to tell the scandalous story of the rise and fall of Mexico's biggest superstar, Gloria Trevi.
Synopsis:
A tawdry true-life tale, as featured in The New York Times Magazine and Dateline, from one of the most well respected names in journalism, comes a book that dares to tell the scandalous story of the rise and fall of Mexico's biggest superstar, Gloria Trevi.
About the Author
Christopher McDougall writes regularly for Esquire, Men's Health, and Bicycling magazines, and first covered the Gloria Trevi saga for the New York Times Magazine in 2002. He won the Clarion Award in 2002 and became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, spending months in Africa reporting on the massacres in Rwanda and frontline fighting in Angola. His articles have also been featured in GQ, Men's Journal, and Inc. magazines.
Family values?
Warning to male FReepers --- don't any of you go to the Gloria Trevi images on Google and look at the naked ones.
Here in MExico we are all too well familiar with this sad story. It makes the news, and though hard to believe...in Mexico, you are GUILTY until proven INNOCENT.
WTF,O?
And Mena Arkansas is connected to this how?
I'm SURE there IS a connection!
You've got me on that one.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
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I forgot to turn my safe search on before looking. I'm doomed.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Doug, Thanks for the warning.
When are you going to post your version of the "Spanish"
National Anthemn? (In English please.)
Got your northern flank covered.
bump
She missed her calling in life. She should have become a U.S. citizen and then become a teacher.
I posted it and it got pulled. Do you want it FReepmailed to you?
Great comment.
Hey - who did it? C'mon now, fess up. Which guard was walking around with a big grin?
It probably wasn't Clinton. He had never been to Brazil until Peter Paul was in prison there, and he went down there to try to make sure he stayed there or died in the Corridor of Death.
Well, you're probably right. Still, I think he should be watched as a "person of interest" and some research should be done on his passport.
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