Who is Emma Coronel Aispuro? Joaquin El Chapo Guzman’s wife and American beauty queen – all you need to know
The drug lord reportedly rigged a pageant so the 17-year-old would win
EMMA Coronel Aispuro is the wife of Mexican drug baron Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals, who was extradited to the United States on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration.
Guzman heads the Sinaloa cartel which is behind much of the deadly violence in Mexico's decades-long drug war and smuggles tonnes of narcotics to the United States.
He reportedly fell for the Mexican-American former beauty queen when she was 17 and he was 47.
El Chapo has been held in solitary confinement in New York since his extradition to the US on January 19.
Coronel has been denied the right to visit her husband at the Metropolitan Correctional Center amid fears that Guzman could attempt another escape.
He has denied a string of charges and a hearing has been set for May 2017.
Who is Emma Coronel Aispuro?
5'6' beauty Emma Coronel Aispuro is no stranger to the world of Mexican organised crime.
Her rancher father, Ines Coronel Barreras, is said to have cultivated marijuana and opium poppies and her uncle is slain drug kingpin Igancio 'Nacho' Coronel, who was an important member of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of El Chapo's most trusted men.
Nacho was dubbed the "The Crystal King" because he was behind the widespread sale of crystal meth across the US and Europe. He was gunned down in a firefight with the Mexican army in 2010.
Coronel is actually a US citizen because her mother was American.
There has not yet been word from governments of either Mexico or the United States as to whether she will be charged with any crimes.
How did El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro meet?
El Chapo is said to have fallen in love with Emma Coronel when he saw her at a beauty pageant in the Mexican state of Durango in 2007.
She was competing in the local Coffee and Guava Festival in 2007, when she was just 17 and El Chapo exerted his influence to ensure the girl won. El Chapo, 47 at the time, wooed the young Coronel, who eventually married him on her 18th birthday.
In an interview with the last year she said: "I would say what won me over was his way of talking, how he treated me, the way we began to get along - first as friends and from that came everything else.
"He tends to win over people by his manner of being, of acting, the way he treats people in general."
Do Emma Coronel Aispuro and El Chapo have any children?
Coronel is 26 and the mother of twins. She gave birth to two little girls in 2011, when she was 23.
Their father's name was left blank on the birth certificate because there was a $5 million bounty on his head at the time.
The children were born in LA and are American citizens.
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