🍿 2022-08-30 16:57:00 – Paris/France.
After Sandra Ávila Beltrán, known as “La Reina del Pacífico”, demanded 40% of the profits obtained by Netflix and Telemundo for the television series “La Reina del Sur”, the companies replied that they will not pay "a single penny" for this claim.
Ávila claimed before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) the payment of rights for the use of his image to promote the second season of the series in 2019 and for the fact that the character of Teresa Mendoza, who gives life to actress Kate del Castillo, is inspired by her person.
However, the companies jointly responded that the accusations of "The Queen of the Pacific" they lack legal supportannounced this Tuesday the newspaper Millennium.
According to the report by journalist Víctor Hugo Michel, the companies hired the company Basham, Ringe y Correa, which entrusted the file to 10 lawyers and 13 trainees.
In their response to IMPI, Telemundo and Netflix pointed out that being a public figure, Ávila Beltrán cannot claim rights over her image or an invasion of her privacy; They clarified that the series should be considered a "journalistic" exercise, since the case is of public interest.
In early August, Telemundo announced that "La Reina del Sur", broadcast in 2011 and 2019, will have a third season which can be seen on your screens from October this year.
As Ávila Beltrán told IMPI, both Telemundo and Netflix “they acted maliciously” to discredit him and achieve economic gains at their expense.
To demonstrate the resemblance between the character and his life, "La Reina del Pacífico" sent a video to the Telemundo newscast on April 19, 2019, where footage of his arrest was used to promote the show's second season, inspired by the novel of the same name, written by the Spaniard Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Ávila Beltrán's lawyers used the lawsuit filed by the actor as a reference Gael García Bernal against Diageo, distributor of Johnny Walker whiskeyfor the use of his image and for which he will be compensated after various legal remedies.
At the beginning of August, Ávila gave an interview to the television channel Youtube Double G, where he assured that his arrest in 2007 was due to Former President Felipe Calderón wanted to use him as a "scapegoat".
“The administration where there were more violations of human rights and the law, where I was his scapegoat, I was the first person he arrested in his six-year term, and he fabricated a crime for me so he could feel like a good president or a good Mexican when working directly with Mexican cartels. Where did he get much of his fortune that he now has, which he and his wife and family enjoy? Drug trafficking, and who judges it? ", he said.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán is the niece of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, known as The Godfather and founder of the defunct Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980s.
His parents are María Luisa Beltrán Félix and Alfonso Ávila Quintero, relative of former Guadalajara cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero.
In 2007, the woman was arrested in Mexico and then extradited to the United States, where she was convicted in that country for helping a drug trafficker. However, in 2013 a court overturned a five-year prison sentence and he was released. There are currently no charges against him.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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