Angélica Rivera Refuses To Sell Controversial 'White House' Allegedly Bought With Government Money

Back in November 2014, Angélica Rivera was criticized for buying a multi-million dollar house located in Sierra Gorda #150 in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico. The First Lady and husband President Enrique Peña Nieto were under constant media attacks because it was believed she had bought that property with Government money. To stop all the commotion, the former telenovela star decided to address the nation in a YouTube video, in which she vowed to sell the $7 million mansion.

"I have nothing to hide," she declared. "I don't want this to continue to be a pretext to offend or defame my family."

Fast forward 9 months, and she has yet to put the house on the market. National Public Radio had access to all public documents registered to the first lady’s house and showed them to the head of Mexico’s public notary college and the president of a leading real estate association, Antonio Hanna Grayeb, who confirmed the house has not been sold.

NPR managed to reach out to Paulo Carreno, the Presidential spokesman, who revealed Rivera won’t sell the house until the investigation has been completed into allegations of conflict of interest involving the first couple.

Political opponents have accused “La Gaviota” and EPN of using the investigation as an excuse to delay selling the house. When a spokesman for the investigator appointed by Peña Nieto was asked when the investigation would be resolved, he would only say “shortly.”