In 2006, Christiana Villas-Boas, then 42, broke her 30-year silence to denounce the exploitation of the memory of her mother, Angela Diniz, the main character in the film Angela Diniz: Murdered and Convicted, available on HBO. The reason was the publication of the book Mea Culpa by Doca Street, the socialite killer, which reignited the pain.
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Christiana said: “This man is a scoundrel. He is trying to make money at my mother’s expense. Oh my God, when will he get tired of killing her and her reputation?”
On December 30, 1976, Angela Diniz was killed five times in the head by her boyfriend from São Paulo. Since then, her daughter has faced judgment and prejudice:
“On the streets of Belo Horizonte I was called the daughter of a ‘drug addict’, ‘that whore’. That’s how some of the traditional families in Minas started talking about my mother.”
The memory of injustice is echoed in the words of Carlos Drummond de Andrade in 1979: “That girl is still killed every day, in different ways.” The poet criticized the defense of Duca Street, which turned Angela into a “femme fatale,” and blamed her for her murder.
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Social activist Angela Deniz was murdered by her boyfriend in 1976
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Angela and Duca dated for four months, but the relationship was characterized by jealousy and domestic violence
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Marjorie Estiano and Angela Deniz
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Marjorie Estiano and Angela Deniz
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Andrucha Waddington is the director of the series about Angela Denise
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According to Duca, Angela’s last words were: “If you want to share me with men and women, you can stay, cuckold.” The “legitimate defense of honor” argument acquitted him in the first trial. In 1981, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but he served only three years in a closed system, two semi-open and the rest on probation.
Christiana also condemned her mother’s ex-boyfriend’s taunting: “It’s terrifying. He went on TV saying he was asking for forgiveness from our family. Yes, he should have asked for forgiveness for all the lies he told.”
She recalled the days before the tragedy, when Angela and Duca went to spend Christmas in Minas:
“He was a handsome, famous man, but something was wrong. He wouldn’t leave my mother. She couldn’t talk to my grandmother, my aunt, or my siblings alone. He would go to the bathroom with her. It was written in the book that my mother would do drugs all day long. If she did, he was the one who encouraged it. In Minas, she wouldn’t even drink.”
Raúl Fernando do Amaral Street, known as Duca Street, at the trial of the crime committed against Angela Diniz
The murder had a profound impact on the family. “For us, my mother’s death was shocking,” Christiana said.
Among the accidents and losses, life remained remarkable: Milton Vilas, Angela’s eldest son, suffered head trauma in a motorcycle accident and began to move with difficulty; The youngest, Luiz Felipe, died at the age of 21 in a car accident; Angela’s first husband died in a plane crash. Grandmother Maria Diniz, a high-society seamstress in the state of Minas Gerais, became embittered and died in 2006, after years of dedicated care for her family.
“It is unbelievable that my mother’s conviction continues to this day,” Christiana said. “She was a pioneering woman. She did what she wanted. And despite all the pain, I’m proud to be Angela Denise’s daughter.”