Mavis Alvarez, a Cuban lady who had an affair with the late soccer star Diego Maradona 20 years in the past, advised a information convention on Monday that the Argentine participant raped {the teenager} and “stole her childhood.”
lvarez, now 37, testified final week to a courtroom in Argentina’s Ministry of Justice, which is probing her fees of trafficking in opposition to Maradona’s former entourage, when she was 16.
Maradona, broadly thought to be one of many biggest soccer stars of all time, handed away a yr in the past on November 25, 2020.
The criticism pertains to a visit with Maradona to Argentina in 2001, when she was virtually 40 and he was 16.
Alvarez stated she first met the soccer star shortly earlier than the journey, when he was in Cuba for therapy for drug habit.
At a information convention in Buenos Aires, lvarez stated that Maradona raped him on the clinic in Havana, the place he was staying, whereas his mom was in an adjoining room.
“He covers my mouth, he rapes me, I don’t want to think about it too much,” Alvarez stated.
“I finished being a woman, all my innocence was stolen from me. It’s troublesome. You cease dwelling the harmless issues {that a} woman of that age has to undergo.”
Maradona’s lawyer earlier than his dying, Matias Morla, didn’t reply to a request for remark. Reuters couldn’t determine Maradona’s different authorized representatives within the case.
Alvarez has beforehand described the connection in media interviews as consensual, but in addition stated that Maradona had compelled himself on her on no less than one event.
She stated that her household allowed Maradona to have a relationship with the star solely due to Maradona’s friendship with the late Cuban President Fidel Castro, regardless of the massive age distinction.
“My family would never have accepted this if the Cuban government had not been involved,” she stated. “They were forced in another way to accept a relationship that was not good for them or anyone at all.”
The Cuban authorities didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Alvarez stated she had filed the criticism “to help all the women, all the victims of trafficking, the crime,” she stated. “To be capable to assist them in no matter manner I can. That’s my thought.”
She stated it was exhausting to return again to Argentina, the place Maradona stays a hero to many.
“It’s hard to be in his country, to see that he is everywhere, he is an idol and at the same time everything I remember about him looks ugly as a person,” she stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
