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The wife who left prison the famous Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo‘ Guzman Loera has recently resurfaced in a music video in which she appears wearing various low-cut outfits.
In an attempt to revamp her poster image, former beauty queen Emma Coronel, 35, is front and center in MTV style. Music video for a song called ‘La Señora’ that tells the story of her life, sung by Mariel Colón Miró, also known as La Abogada.
Coronel, a U.S. native, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of aiding her husband’s Mexico-based Sinaloa drug cartel, including conspiracy to launder money and distribute illegal drugs and engaging in financial dealings.
She was released from a halfway house on September 13, 2023, while her drug lord husband remains serving a life sentence plus 30 years at Colorado’s Supermax federal prison.
After spending two and a half years in prison, Coronel has decided to live his life to the fullest, but not everyone accepts his new personality.
One shocked viewer said: ‘Is this a paid mention or just free promotion of drug trafficking?’
Emma Coronel, 35, (pictured) – the wife of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera – appears in a music video for a song that tells the story of her life: ‘La Señora’
She appears as a member of the “special cast” in the video alongside lawyer-turned-artist, Miró.
Miró was part of the legal team that represented El Chapo in his battle against the US justice system, and also represented Coronel and even the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In the video, Coronel trades her jet-black hair for luscious blonde locks and sports a bright red pantsuit that shows off her voluminous chest.
She and Miró drive a large black Cadillac Escalade SUV and stop at what appears to be a business meeting full of men smoking cigars.
While she speaks in the background, Miró sings passionately accompanied by a band.
At one point, Coronel jumps on a horse while donning dark jeans, a white shirt and vest, and a large black cowboy hat.
The friends then head to a luxurious house as they walk around a large underground pool.
Emma Coronel in her 2021 mugshot (left). Her husband, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, in his 2015 mugshot (right)
Miró sang as the drug lord’s wife, dressed in a low-cut white jumpsuit and a slicked-back ponytail, took in the enchanting views around her.
Miró sings as the drug lord’s wife, dressed in a low-cut white jumpsuit and a slicked-back ponytail, takes in the exquisite views around her.
Before the song was released, the friends promoted it on Despierta América, a popular station for Latinos in the United States, according to The Country.
During an interview with Maria Antonieta Collins, Coronel did not discuss her criminal husband or his connection to the infamous cartel, instead focusing on her new business venture.
When Collins asked if she was worried about jumping into the industry, El Chapo’s wife made it clear she was excited about her new beginning.
-Yes, but it’s like everything, right? Everything has bad consequences, everything has good consequences and in the end something always comes up, so why not do something that benefits me?
While she seems to have embraced her new career, others aren’t as thrilled with it, such as when one viewer questioned whether the video was “free promotion” for drug dealing.
The former beauty queen, who married the ruthless drug tsar as a teenager, was sentenced to three years in prison by a US judge in November 2021. (pictured: Coronel photographed in July)
‘Because I see it as a good thing. I was hired to work as a model on my friend’s project and that was my song.’
Immediately after her release in 2023, it didn’t take long for Coronel to get back into the nightlife she’d been missing, as she was seen walking into a Los Angeles club.
During the party, also organized by He looked, Colonel was wearing white jeans, a tan vest, short black boots and long black hair.
She was seen enjoying herself with friends as she danced the night away, celebrating her release.
The former beauty pageant winner who married the ruthless drug czar as a teenager.
Guzmán was extradited from Mexico to the United States in 2017 and sentenced in July 2019.
He will spend the rest of his life in the infamous ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, considered by many to be the most secure place of detention in the world.
During her trial, prosecutors and her defense attorneys said Coronel was not involved in the core business of Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, which shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs into the United States.
Guzmán (pictured) was extradited from Mexico to the United States in 2017 and sentenced in July 2019 to life in prison.
Immediately following her release in 2023, it didn’t take long for Coronel to get back into the nightlife she’d been missing, as she was seen walking into a Los Angeles club (pictured).
“The defendant’s actual role was minimal,” said prosecutor Anthony Nardozzi.
“The accused was not a leader, organizer, boss or any other type of administrator,” Nardozzi said. “Rather, she was a cog in a large wheel of a criminal organization.”
Coronel, who helped facilitate Guzman’s spectacular escape from a Mexican prison in 2015, regularly attended her husband’s trial in New York.
Coronel, a U.S. and Mexican citizen, was able to enter and leave the United States freely until she was arrested at Dulles International Airport outside Washington in February 2021.
Coronel eventually pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges.
These included conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.
She previously asked for forgiveness during her sentencing, according to Telemundo.
The mother promised that she would teach her daughters to distinguish right from wrong, saying, “I beg you not to allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother.”
Coronel, who helped facilitate Guzman’s spectacular escape from a Mexican prison in 2015, regularly attended her husband’s trial in New York. (Pictured: Speaking outside a federal court in New York in April 2018)
She admitted to helping him transport at least 450 kilograms of cocaine, 90 kilograms of heroin and nearly 90,000 kilograms of marijuana into the United States over several years.
She also helped her husband escape from a high-security Mexican prison in 2015.
Guzman, who was then the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, was captured and returned to prison, before his wife again planned his escape in 2017.
He was convicted in the United States of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and other charges of distributing tons of cocaine in 2019.
The infamous drug cartel boss is serving a life sentence, plus 30 years in prison for the charges. He has since attempted to appeal the conviction.
Coronel was transferred from a federal prison in Texas to a halfway house in Long Beach, California, before her release.
She married El Chapo in 2007, on his 18th birthday, and the couple have been in a relationship ever since. (pictured: El Chapo being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City after his capture in 2014)
She married El Chapo in 2007, on his 18th birthday, and the couple has been in a relationship ever since.
Following his extradition to the US, she showed unwavering support for him, telling the New York Times in 2019 that she “didn’t know her husband as the person they were trying to portray him as.”
She added: “But I rather admire him as the human being I knew and married.”
Coronel was a constant presence at her husband’s trial and was regularly surrounded by television cameras and publicity agents.
He will now be on supervised release for the next four years.
