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Cuban Mavis Alvarez filed a “human trafficking” lawsuit against people close to the late legend Diego Maradona, claiming that the famous football player raped her when she was a 16-year-old.Earlier, an Argentine court began hearings in the case of human trafficking after Alvarez claimed that 20 years ago, when she was 16, she met Maradona, then 40, in Cuba, where he came to treatment for drug addiction, and kept her locked up in a room where drugs were used for a period Two and a half months.
The Cuban woman, who has been in a relationship with Maradona for four years, alleged that she was forced to have a breast implant after she was taken to Argentina by Maradona’s friends, without her parents’ permission.
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Argentinian newspaper Infobae quoted Alvarez’s statement: “My mother came to see me when we were in Havana, and (Maradona) did not want to see her… I closed my mouth so that I wouldn’t scream and say something, and he offended me.”
The woman, who is now 37, described how Maradona became violent towards her, when he was drinking or taking drugs.
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Alvarez recounted what she described as some physical abuse, “It is true that he hit me, and this happened several times, as he pushed me out of the dining room and put me in the car and pulled me by my hair.”
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And why she did not inform the authorities at the time, she said: “I was not allowed to report it, and I thought that the judicial system would not do anything because Fidel (Castro) would have helped him out of the problem.”
Alvarez said that people close to the former footballer, against whom she filed the lawsuit, witnessed many such abusive situations, but they did nothing.
Maradona died on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60, after suffering a heart attack, while he was at his personal home located in a suburb of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
An investigation was opened with Maradona’s medical team on charges of neglecting his treatment and care after he underwent precise brain surgery weeks before his death.
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