After a year-long trial, he was convicted on six of the nine charges against him in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, among them: pedophilia, child abuse and evasion of justice. Her younger sister Rosy revealed she and two of Jenni’s daughters had been sexually abused for several years by Trino Marin, Rivera’s first husband and her daughter’s father.Ĭompletely destroyed and full of rage, Rivera filed a police complaint against her ex in 1996 after discovering the abuse. Tragedy And Success, Side By Side Just as Rivera’s musical career was taking shape, a family secret plunged her into a deep depression. But “Que me entierren con la banda,” Jenni Rivera’s first record with her new label, finally caught people’s attention. Inside the industry, she wasn’t much more than the “sister of Lupillo Rivera,” who was at the top of his career. In 2000 her career took off with the record label Fonovisa. But Rivera had recorded some corridos of her own and an homage to Selena Quintanilla-Perez, known simply as Selena, a Tejano music star killed by an obsessed fan club leader in the mid 1990s. The two divorced because of López’s infidelity, according to Rivera. The marriage wasn’t what Rivera had hoped for, however. Rivera gave birth to her fourth child, Johnny Angelo in 2001. After finishing a six-month sentence, López and Rivera resumed their relationship. But just weeks after moving in, her new husband was arrested on allegations of smuggling undocumented immigrants across the border for payment. In 1995, she met the man who would become her second husband, Juan López, in one of those bars and went to live with him. Soon, she took up singing in bars around Los Angeles to make extra money. Jenni Rivera started with just a few songs that she recorded as a birthday gift to her father. Her family had already chosen her brother Lupillo to sing narcocorridos - a controversial genre that extols the exploits of drug traffickers along the border. Her father, a musician himself who would eventually become an important player in California’s music industry, had encouraged his children to sing. Returning to her parents house, Rivera helped her father with the contracts for a record label he’d opened called “Cintas Acuario.” That’s when she began a career out of her love for music. She finished her studies and headed into the real estate business. Initiation Into Music After two suicide attempts, Rivera got up the courage to divorce her husband. The future singer studied secretly to finish high school and move on to college, where she studied business administration, and struggled with depression. Abused physically and psychologically, Rivera had three children with Trino Marin - Janney, better known as “Chiquis,” Jacqueline and Trino Angelo. Rivera later described the eight-year marriage as a sort of hell. Rivera’s parents reacted by kicking her out of the house, she said in a 2002 interview. By 15, Rivera was pregnant with Marin’s child. At the age of 14, she met her first husband, Trino Marin. Part of a hard-working, not at all wealthy family, Rivera and her brothers began working while still teenagers. Months later, on July 2, 1969, Jenni Rivera was born in Los Angeles. She thought about abortion, but her religious faith pushed her to continue the pregnancy and risk the long trek across the desert. When Rivera’s parents decided to cross the border illegally from Mexico into the United States, Rosa Saavedra discovered she was pregnant, the singer said in an interview in 2001. Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra, as she was baptized by her parents Rosa Saavedra and Pedro Rivera, was the third of six children: Pedro, Gustavo, Lupillo, Juan and Rosy. Esteemed by fans as “La Diva de la Banda,” the singer overcame depression, physical and psychological abuse, and family controversy to become a strong-willed woman within a male-dominated genre. Rivera’s tragic death echoes a life filled with adversity - hardship that in turn seemed to fuel the singer's journey to stardom.
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