A few weeks ago, Mariel Colon Miroe, who adopted the stage name “La Abogada”—Spanish for “The Lawyer”—gained attention for defending the notorious El Chapo during his trial, which resulted in a life sentence in a maximum security prison in the United States. To mark this moment, she released the song “La Senora.”

One of the most intriguing aspects of the accompanying video clip was the appearance of Ms. “El Chapo.” After spending two and a half years in a U.S. prison, she chose to re-enter the spotlight, drawing attention back to herself.

She did so emphatically, as the first scene from the song’s visualization shows her being released from prison wearing a striking “fire red” ensemble. After all, this song was written especially for her and according to information and rumors that appeared on Mexico websites, she reportedly personally approved the song before it was released.

A few days ago, she took the next step in the new life she wants to launch after she appeared as a model at Milan Fashion Week, in the debut of designer and friend April Black Diamond, who became a household name overnight.

The aka Emma Coronel Aispuro, wore a bridal creation that she paired with a tiara and other jewelry, which Diamond dubbed “Rebirth.” The symbolic title of the wedding dress shows how much the wife of “El Chapo” wants to be seen as a woman who paid her price for living next to the drug baron.

Only a few seem to believe her, as her appearance created both the appropriate buzz and too many negative comments about the wife of “Stubu” as they called Gushman, who ran the Sinaloa cartel.

In some short radio interviews, the producers’ questions don’t open up the dark chapter of her life next to Gusman at all, nor of course about her imprisonment.

She had met him as a teenager at a party where “El Chapo” was present and asked her to marry him that day, which the young woman gladly accepted.

The twins, the arrest, and the trial

He knew that from that moment on, in a country like Mexico where drug cartels and violence ruled, she would be somehow protected as the wife of El Patron, which means “the boss’s wife.”

Four years after meeting and marrying “El Chapo,” Emma traveled in 2011 by private lear jet to Lancaster, California, to give birth to the twins she was carrying at Antelope Valley Hospital.

Gusman’s last name was not written on the newborn girls’ name tags, since the US Department of Justice had put a $5 million bounty on their father’s head, and there were fears that authorities would detain the mother and children as a means of pressuring the father to surrender.

The reborn as she states Emma has always stood by “El Chapo” and even said in an interview in 2016 in a dramatic tone that his life was in danger and called for justice.

Words that sounded “pretentious” and “invalid” to say the least at the same time that the Sinaloa cartel her husband ran was responsible for thousands of murders and kidnappings.

Three years later, she and her now 8-year-old daughters watched the entire trial of the man she walked through life with, and heard his life sentence, with seeming equanimity.

Then it was her turn after the US authorities discovered her involvement in the cartel’s business and summarily arrested her.

She returned $1,500,000, was jailed for two and a half years, and worked with the DEA to reduce her sentence and breathe the air of freedom again as evidenced by her actions and publicity.