The Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo in Madrid, on June 10, 2021. Manu Fernandez (AP)
The Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo has denied in Mexico the accusations that link him to a criminal organization with branches in the United States, which operated as a sect and is accused, among other crimes, of human trafficking.
“You have seen that everything is proven that there is nothing, what I feel a lot is that it was a group that I… of friends, that I considered musicians, we were on one occasion, I invited them to work, and unfortunately it has not been like that, but well , in short, of course I have nothing to do with that, "said the singer in statements released this Tuesday.
Placido Domingo, on August 19, was identified by an Argentine justice investigation that linked him as a client of sexual services offered by the Buenos Aires Yoga School, a sect with more than 30 years of history.
A series of wiretaps ordered by Judge Ariel Lijo, in charge of the investigation, a client is heard, and according to the investigations, it would be the tenor.
The man talks to a woman named Susana Mendelievich, alias
Mendy
, 75 years old, to whom he explains how the meeting should take place.
The woman later communicates with the leader of the sect and celebrates that the client, allegedly Domingo, has already "organized the matufia" [a deception] so that "the agents do not notice."
The same sources consulted assure that the voice is that of the tenor and that Plácido Domingo is not charged with any crime, but they warn that there is still “reviewing a huge amount of paper and digital documentation.”
Plácido Domingo was one of the artists highlighted in the #Metoo, following the accusations of sexual harassment in the United States by some twenty women made public by the Associated Press in 2019. Many of his presentations, both in the United States and in Spain, they were cancelled.
He denied the accusations, but reports from the American Union of Musical Artists and the Los Angeles Opera — of which the Madrid native was appointed director in 2003, a position he resigned as a result of the scandal — concluded that the testimonies were "credible" and that the tenor had engaged in "inappropriate behavior."
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