The "Queen of the Pacific", nickname of a Mexican who spent nearly eight years in prison for drug trafficking and criminal association, has decided to sue Netflix.
She accuses the streaming platform of illegally using her image in the
Queen of the South
series .
An administrative intellectual property procedure
Sandra Avila Beltran is thus claiming 40% of the royalties paid to Netflix.
His approach also targets the Telemundo channel which produced the series.
The program, inspired by a novel, tells the story of a "woman of humble origins" who "ends up becoming a legend of drug trafficking" according to Netflix's summary.
The second season won an Emmy in 2020.
Sandra Avila Beltran seized the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).
The procedure before the IMPI precedes a legal proceeding, according to his lawyer.
A source familiar with the matter confirmed on Tuesday the existence of an "administrative procedure", without further details.
Contacted, Netflix declined to comment.
Repeatedly released
The “Queen of the Pacific” was detained on September 28, 2007 in a restaurant in Mexico City (Mexico) with her companion, the Colombian Juan Diego Espinosa Ramírez nicknamed “the tiger”.
He was accused of being in contact with the "Sinaloa cartel" of Chapo Guzman, who is currently serving a life sentence in the United States.
Extradited to the United States in 2012, Sandra Avila Beltran was sentenced to six years in prison for criminal association.
The American justice canceled his sentence the following year.
Sent back to Mexico, she was sentenced there in September 2014 to five years in prison for money laundering.
A judge released her in February 2015. According to her lawyer, she “has always been acquitted in all appeals and all criminal proceedings”.
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