Gloria Trevi Vs. Pati Chapoy: Did Singer Win Defamation Case Over Alleged Prostitution Ring?

The court battle between Gloria Trevi, Pati Chapoy, TV Azteca, and Publimax may be finally over. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Texas announced that they were ruling in favor of the Mexican singer in a defamation case that has been going on since 2009, which originated after Chapoy teamed-up with Karina Yapor to publicly expose “El Clan Trevi-Andrade” in 1998.

“Many years ago, she was involved in what everyone now knows as ‘El clan Trevi-Andrade,’ it was made public through research and investigation and I’m the one being sued for it. It’s incredible that the artist generates the information and then we get sued,” Chapoy told El Universal when Trevi announced she was taking her to court.

Trevi mentioned she decided to approach the situation legally because, in her opinion, the Mexican journalist and the network were building a campaign against her and her image. The singer’s biopic, “Gloria,” exposes Chapoy as a tenacious reporter who sees an opportunity to explode the case and does so with Yapor’s testimonies which, according to the movie, are not 100% true.

The “Ventaneando” host released a press communicate on March 31 stating that the court’s decision was not final, and that all the parts involved were planning on continuing with the investigation until the truth prevailed.

“There are still some resources left to bring in before getting into a deeper revision of the case. The involved parts will not reserve themselves when it comes to presenting such resources in order to prove that the sue presented by Gloria Trevi is, without a doubt, unfounded,” reads the statement posted on Twitter.

Armando Gómez, Trevi’s husband, joined the conversation on social media after the document was published and stated, “Pathetic and outrageous are these comments full of hate, and envy from your co-workers. This is just her [Chapoy] posture, not the one from the 8 judges at the Supreme Court in the state of Texas that ruled in our favor.”

Chapoy was one of the first media reporters to condemn Trevi prior to her arrest in Brazil in the year 2000. She was later translated to “El Cereso” prison in Mexico and was released in 2004 because there was insufficient evidence to prove she was Sergio Andrade’s accomplice in the abuse, corruption and prostitution of minors.