Starstruck
A Journalist's Pursuit of a Fugitive Pop Star, Her Diabolical Maestro, and Their Teenage Sex Cult
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- Pedido anticipado
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Descripción editorial
The too-wild-to-believe story of how Mexico’s queen of pop became involved in a sex cult
In 2000, an international manhunt was underway for Mexican superstar Gloria Trevi, her manager Sergio Andrade, and the young girls in their entourage. They had gone on the run after Trevi and Andrade were accused of the abuse and rape of the girls in their care. How had a superstar gotten involved in a sex cult with nearly a dozen teenage girls?
Andrade founded a performing arts school that plucked young girls out of obscurity and promised to cultivate them into stars. His first recruit was Gloria Trevi. For many girls and their parents, the opportunity was too tempting to pass up. When a known hitmaker and Mexico’s most famous singer promised they could leave their hard life behind, how could they say no? But already, whispers of abuse had been circulating, and finally, the allegations caught up to them—resulting in a two-year, international chase for the pair and the girls they had taken with them. Finally apprehended in Brazil and imprisoned there, Gloria and Sergio still had tricks up their sleeves.
In this hair-raising, masterful investigation, bestselling author and journalist Christopher McDougall uncovers the dark secrets of the “supreme diva of Mexican pop” and her mercurial manager, catching us up on this remarkable case and the civil suit that has recently been brought against them in Los Angeles. Starstruck is an eye-opening story about the allure of fame and the corrupting influence of power.
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McDougall (Born to Run) delivers a propulsive, horrifying account of the sexual abuse scandal involving Mexican pop singer Gloria Trevi and her manager, Sergio Andrade, which he previously covered in 2001's Girl Trouble. Moved to "learn more, dig deeper, and understand better" in the years after publishing that book, McDougall revisits the case with a new focus on his own reporting and an expanded scope that traces developments over the past two decades. In the 1990s, as Trevi's fame grew, Andrade opened a music school in his home, forcing Trevi to weaponize her celebrity and lure new recruits for him to sexually abuse—some as young as 12. When accusations of kidnapping and rape began to surface, Andrade and Trevi fled Mexico with a group of "students," remaining undetected for two years until they were found in Brazil, with several of the teens and Trevi pregnant by Andrade. Detailing his yearslong pursuit of Andrade and Trevi, and the fallout after Trevi was cleared of wrongdoing in 2004, McDougall constructs an appalling cautionary tale about craving fame and the mechanics of abuse. It's riveting, though not for the faint of heart.
