“There are legal proceedings underway”

Ilia Topuria surprised last Monday with a statement in which she admitted having been “extorted” and accused of “ill-treatment”“, something that will be taken to court, as he explained. After the news was announced, attention focused on Giorgina Uzcategui, his ex-partner, since they are in the process of separation because of the daughter they have in common, as the magazine points out. Good morning!.

Journalist Isabel Rábago reported in And now Sonsoles that the model would have filed a complaint for mistreatment when receiving the separation request from the double UFC champion. “At the time Giorgina was informed of the separation request, she showed up at the law firm as a victim of abuse (…) His request was purely economic in exchange for not filing this abuse complaint,” he stressed.

Until now, Giorgina Uzcategui had not spoken out, but the story took a 180-degree turn, since her upset Cristina Corell Cortina spoke out on the subject. In this document he stressed that the information that was said about his client is “defamatory”.

“From this professional office, in our capacity as legal representation of Ms. Giorgina Uzcategui Badell, before the proliferation of information, public speculation and statements of a defamatory nature which circulate in different media and which point directly to our client, in a context of recent media attention, we consider it necessary to provide a clarification”, indicates the beginning of the statement, put forward by LOC.

The lawyer assures that “there is currently a legal procedure in progress, of a strictly private and family nature, which directly affects a minor” and, for this reason, ” Ms. Uzcategui has expressly chosen not to organize public demonstrations and to manage this situation with the greatest respect for the procedure and the privacy of the parties involved.

“For all this, we ask the media and opinion spaces to avoid fueling speculation or parallel judgments, and that they act with the prudence and responsibility that the existence of an ongoing legal procedure requires”, affirms Corell Cortina. Finally, he emphasizes that the team of the accused “will no longer make public statements on this case outside the corresponding procedural framework”.