Mavys Alvarez Rego, mother of two children aged 15 and 4, who now lives in Miami (United States) told the press in Buenos Aires how she met Maradona at 16, when the star, then in his forties , lived in Cuba, where he was undergoing drug treatment.
“
I was dazzled, he conquered me (...).
But after two months everything started to change,
”she said, claiming that Maradona had pushed her to use cocaine, making her in turn addicted.
“
I loved him but I hated him too, I even thought about suicide,
” she said.
She notably claimed, during a trip to Buenos Aires with Maradona in 2001 for a series of tributes, to have been held against her will for weeks in a hotel by relatives of Maradona, banned from going out alone, and forced to a breast augmentation operation.
She also claimed that Maradona, with whom the relationship lasted "
between 4 and 5 years
", "
raped
" her on one occasion at their home in Havana.
And she mentioned several episodes of physical violence.
Mavys Alvarez testified this week in Buenos Aires to an Argentine prosecutor, seized of a complaint not by herself, but by an Argentine NGO "
Foundation for Peace
", moved by the confessions of the Cuban in American media these last weeks.
The complaint relates in particular to trafficking in human beings, deprivation of liberty, reduction in servitude, assault and battery.
Mavys Alvarez explained not to speak, after so many years, because Maradona died (exactly one year ago), and to restore truths, compared to untruths heard in a TV series on Maradona.
She suggested that she did not intend to initiate further proceedings.
“
I did what I had to do, I leave the rest to justice.
I achieved my goal: to tell what happened to me, to prevent it from happening to others, or at least other girls to feel the strength, the courage to speak up,
”she said. .
Five relatives of the accused Maradona's entourage have denied, via their lawyers, any involvement in the facts described, one of them filing a complaint against the NGO for slanderous denunciation.
