The 35-year-old wife of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is going to be a model at Milan Fashion Week in Italy on Sunday — one year after her own release from prison in Los Angeles. Emma Coronel Aispuro is set to sashay down the catwalk as the main model for international designer April Black Diamond. The show will take place at the elegant Palazzo Serbelloni, where Napoleon Bonaparte resided for a few months in 1796.
The California-born Coronel was a beauty queen when she met Guzmán, 32 years her senior. They married in 2007, when she was 18, and they have twin daughters who were born in Los Angeles in 2011. After the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced in New York to life in prison plus 30 years on July 17, 2019, Coronel herself was convicted in the U.
S. and sentenced to three years in prison. The dual U.
S.-Mexico citizen pleaded guilty to three counts of helping her husband’s cartel: conspiracy to launder money and distribute illegal drugs, and engaging in financial dealings. She also admitted to being a courier between Guzmán and cartel members while he was in Mexico’s Altiplano prison after a 2014 arrest.
Her sentencing judge said Coronel had quickly accepted responsibility and agreed to forfeit nearly US $1.5 million of proceeds from her criminal activity to the U.S.
government, and her three-year sentence was later reduced. She was released from a low-security institution in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2023, after serving t.