By Fatima Valadez
Less than a month after her official memorial, a lawsuit has been filed against the air plane company that carried singer Jenni Rivera and five other passengers last month.
The plane crashed Dec. 9 in mountainous terrain on the way to Toluca, where they were expected to arrive to the Televisa show “La Voz Mexico” to finish the end of season two. “La Voz Mexico” from the Televisa channel doesn’t still know what to do with the chair that Rivera held as coach. In the end, there was an emotional moment when they placed a white rose on Rivera’s Chair. The show made almost four hours in her memory.
Almost immediately, there were two demands to the owner of the company of the plane accused of being associated with a businessman convicted of falsifying aircraft maintenance records. The plane was called Learjet 25, driven by Miguel Pérez Soto, a 78 year old that was only permitted to drive in Mexico for only six months, but when Jenni Rivera and other people were inside, his license was expired and there are rumors that he was involved with the drug trafficking.
The private plane was for sale and Jenni Rivera had plans to buy it, even though she didn’t expect what was going to happen to her. The plane crashed at 1,000 km/h at the altitude of 28,000 feet. Authorities haven’t found any survivors from this accident, but they have found belonging such as shoes and clothes that could have belonged to Jenni Rivera.
When the crash first happened, there were fans of Rivera that hoped she was alive, but with what they’ve heard from news and radio, read on magazines, they have lost their hope, but they think she will always be remembered as “La diva de la Banda”( “Diva of the Band”).
Born on July 2, 1969, and raised in Long Beach, California, (Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra) Rivera was a mother of two, grandmother, artist, and philanthropist. She made a foundation for kids with cancer, single mothers and abused women. She donated a lot of money throughout her whole life and raised her own children by herself. At the end of 2009, she donated $5,000 monthly to “La Posada,” home to her foundation for single and abused mothers. After the earthquake in Haiti that happened on 2010, she donated $50,000 dollars as her foundation to help the people that were hurt.
Rivera is ‘remembered’ as a ‘Latino pride’ for all the humanity she has shown throughout her music career. Selling more than 20 million CDs , Rivera won a lot of prizes for her singing career of “banda” and “nortena” music genres, being the first Mexican singer in the hall of fame in Hollywood and being the first Mexican artist to participate in the Super Bowl. She also appeared on the cover of three magazines of “People en Español” with Marco Antonio Solís, Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio, Alejandra Guzmán.
She was working in her third season of her reality show on mun2 that was called “I love Jenni” where Telemundo in association with mun2 ran two marathons from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday and Tuesday the week of the crash. Days before she was going to do her last concert in Monterrey, Mexico she was worried about her security and had her negative comments , but the she said that she wasn’t going to have any extra precaution because she doesn’t have any enemies and she respects everybody, told Quintero to Radio Formula.
Her husband, a Baseball player Esteban Loaiza supposedly cheated her with her daughter, Bella Chanel, “chiquis” she later gave him a petition for divorce two months before this tragic accident happened after being married for two years. Since the divorced never happened, she is still married to him, but he doesn’t get any inheritance.