El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro's Enduring Relationship to Become a Narco-Series

The relationship of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera and his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, will be featured in a narco-series.

According to Infobae, the television series on the U.S. network Paramount is entitled "First Lady of Sinaloa." The project will be produced and starred by John Leguizamo, who was born in Colombia and raised in a New York neighborhood.

As described by The Hollywood Reporter, the narco-series will be a story about "love, sex, drugs, and danger," that will tackle "the fascinating yet volatile life" of El Chapo's famous wife.

Producer Frida Torresblanco will also produce the series for VIS in association with Braven Films. The project has reportedly received a go-ahead for its development. The narco-series will debut exclusively on streaming service Paramount+ in Latin America and all international markets.

According to La Opinion, the series will narrate the story of how Emma Coronel Aispuro and El Chapo met, how their love began, their family, and how they both ended up detained in the United States.

El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro's Relationship

Emma Coronel Aispuro had a boyfriend when she first met El Chapo after being crowned in a Sinaloa beauty pageant in 2006. She was only 17 years old at the time, and El Chapo was 49.

The two exchanged vows the following year on her 18th birthday. The California-born ex-beauty queen gave birth to their twins in 2011.

Coronel Aispuro earlier claimed in a book titled "Emma y Las Otras Señoras del Narco" that she and El Chapo were married "under the law of the divine" when they got married in July 2007.

According to the book, the wedding was enormous, but El Chapo's wife maintained that the celebration was a small affair with their families.

Coronel Aispuro claimed that she did not know that El Chapo was the feared leader of the Sinaloa Cartel at the time of her wedding. El Chapo was already a wanted fugitive, with his face plastered on wanted posters across Mexico at the time.

Coronel Aispuro said it was only after it came out in the news that they had gotten married that she started to figure out what was going on with her husband. However, she noted that she did not really give it "that much importance" since she was still young at the time.

According to the book, El Chapo was still married to his first wife when he wed Coronel Aispuro. The Sinaloa Cartel boss married Griselda Lopez Perez in the 1980s before exchanging vows with Coronel Aispuro.

It is reportedly not known if there are legal documents registered in Mexico that would validate the wedding between El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro. The Sinaloa Cartel boss was said to bribe a priest in Sinaloa, Mexico to conduct the ceremony despite the legal issue.

Sinaloa Cartel Boss El Chapo Fell for Emma Coronel Aispuro After She Cooked For Him

The book also revealed that El Chapo fell for Emma Coronel Aispuro after she cooked him her own enchilada recipe while they were dating in Durango, her home state, New York Post reported.

Coronel Aispuro said the Mexican drug lord never bought her huge gifts or other expensive things. She added that El Chapo won people by acting like a normal person with no air.

Coronel Aispuro said El Chapo usually took her to regional dances where they danced and talked. The former beauty queen was not El Chapo's only romantic interest.

According to reports, El Chapo had more than a dozen children among his string of wives and mistresses. The Sinaloa Cartel boss is believed to have fathered at least 15 children.

The book said El Chapo was probably "looking for his mother in all the women he knew." Emma Coronel Aispuro was sentenced to three years in prison for helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar drug empire.

The Sinaloa Cartel is considered to be one of the most powerful drug-trafficking syndicates in the world. The group was founded in the late 1980s and headed by El Chapo. Under El Chapo's leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel earned its reputation through violence and outfought several rival groups.

El Chapo was sentenced to spend the rest of his days in the ADX Florence "supermax" prison in Colorado after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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