Ad Blocker Detected
Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Diego Maradona died a calendar year in the past on Nov. 25, 2020. MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty Illustrations or photos
Mavys Alvarez, a Cuban lady who had a partnership with the late Diego Maradona two many years back, advised a information meeting on Monday the Argentine player had raped her when she was a teenager and “stolen her childhood.”
Alvarez, now 37, gave testimony past 7 days to an Argentine Ministry of Justice court that is investigating her allegations of trafficking in opposition to Maradona’s former entourage, linked to situations when she was 16.
Maradona, broadly thought of a person of the greatest at any time soccer stars, died a year in the past on Nov. 25, 2020.
The complaint relates to a journey Alvarez took to Argentina with Maradona in 2001, when he was about 40 and she was 16. Alvarez said that she to start with satisfied the soccer star soon prior to the trip, when he was in Cuba to undertake drug dependancy remedy.
At a information convention in Buenos Aires, Alvarez said Maradona experienced raped her in the clinic in Havana in which he was being, though her mother was in the future area.
“He covers my mouth, he rapes me, I do not want to believe about it as well substantially,” Alvarez explained.
“I stopped getting a lady, all my innocence was stolen from me. It really is tough. You end residing the innocent things that a girl of that age has to practical experience.”
Matias Morla, Maradona’s attorney in advance of his loss of life, did not react to a request for comment. Reuters could not detect other legal associates for Maradona in the circumstance.
Alvarez has beforehand described the relationship in media interviews as consensual, but also claimed that Maradona experienced at minimum on a person situation pressured himself upon her.
She explained that her family experienced only permitted a romance with the star to occur, even with the significant age hole, due to the fact of Maradona’s friendship with the late Cuban President Fidel Castro.
“My loved ones would in no way have accepted it if the Cuban government had not been included,” she stated. “They were being compelled in yet another way to settle for a connection that was not great for them, or for anyone.”
Cuba’s government did not right away respond to a request for comment.
Alvarez reported she had submitted the complaint “in get to assistance all females, all victims of trafficking, of criminal offense,” she reported. “To be capable to support them in regardless of what way I can. Which is my idea.”
She stated it was hard to be back again in Argentina, where Maradona continues to be a hero to numerous.
“It really is tricky to be in his region, to see that he is almost everywhere, he is an idol and at the similar time all the things I recall about him as a person feels unpleasant,” she explained.
