Film director Darryl Yap has been ordered to take down the 26-second teaser video of his upcoming film “The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma,” with the court hearing the petition for writ of habeas data filed by Marvic “Vic” Sotto granting that motion. In a 20-page decision issued on Jan. 24, Presiding Judge Liezel Aquiatan of Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 205 directed Yap and his production team to delete the teaser from all online platforms “for having misused.
.. collected data/information” about an alleged conversation between two deceased individuals that cannot be verified as having actually occurred.
READ: Darryl Yap won’t appeal court’s takedown order on Pepsi Paloma trailer The teaser trailer, which is still available on social media, features an unverifiable confrontation between the late actress Delia Dueñas Smith, who went by the screen name Pepsi Paloma, and the late actress Charito Solis—wherein Solis, as portrayed by actress Gina Alajar, demanded to know from Paloma, portrayed by actress Rhed Bustamante, if she was raped by Sotto, a popular TV host and comedian. According to news archives, Paloma filed a rape complaint in 1982 against Sotto and fellow comedians Joey de Leon and Ricardo Reyes (Richie D’Horsie), but withdrew that complaint later that year by filing an affidavit of desistance. The Muntinlupa court still allowed Yap “to proceed with the production and eventual release of the film ‘The Rapists of Pepsi Paloma.
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