Few Believe Mexico's First Lady Made Enough as TV Star to Pay for Mansion Tim Johnson - McClatchy
go to original November 26, 2014

Rivera as Gaviota in the award-winning soap, Destilando Amor. (Televisa)

Mexico’s first lady, soap opera star Angelica Rivera, is back in the spotlight. But rather than receiving public adulation, she’s the subject of ridicule.

A poll released over the weekend found that three-quarters of Mexicans think Rivera isn’t telling the truth about how much she earned during her television career and how she paid for a $7 million mansion that’s at the heart of a political scandal enveloping her husband, President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Among those scoffing at Rivera are fellow television actors, who contend she never pulled in the kind of money she claims.

Political analysts and columnists say the attention on Rivera, whose fame soared with a hit 2007 soap opera, was designed to take the heat off Pena Nieto himself.

Rivera posted a video (see below) on her website last Tuesday detailing how she’d amassed a net worth of $10.4 million during a 25-year television career at Televisa, the world’s biggest Spanish-language media conglomerate and a company that’s always defended the interests of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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