The life of Emma Coronel, El Chapo's wife, in pictures

1Emma Coronel, right, leaves federal court in New York's Brooklyn district with her daughters Emali Guadalupe and María Joaquina, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Mary Altaffer AP

2Illustration of the moment when Coronel and Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán greet each other during the trial of the drug trafficker in New York, in February 2019. REUTERS

3Emma Coronel was named a beauty queen during an event in 2006 in Durango, Mexico.

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4During the trial, a witness linked her to Chapo Guzmán's escape from the Altiplano prison (Mexico).

He also revealed that the drug lord had sent text messages to Coronel asking him to hide his weapons before a police raid.

Seth Wenig AP

5Emma Coronel, in a photograph published on her Instagram account in January 2020. Instagram

6Often sitting on the defense bench, in the second row of a room full of journalists, Emma Coronel attended almost every day her husband's trial in New York.

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7 Illustration of Emma Coronel sitting in the courtroom on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, as the trial against Guzmán Loera began.

Elizabeth Williams AP

8Coronel entered and left the court in exclusive dresses during the historic trial of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

Kevin Hagen) AP

9Emma Cornel Aispuro, in a scene from the television program “Cartel Crew”, broadcast on VH1.

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10Coronel reinvented himself as an 'influencer' on Instagram, a social network in which he promoted various local Sinaloa companies among his already more than 400,000 followers.

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11 Before becoming the third wife of the world's most wanted drug trafficker, Coronel was a beauty queen from Sinaloa.

They met when she was 17 and 51, and were married the day she came of age.

Johannes Eisele AFP