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  • Jenni Rivera Estate Sues: Negligence Blamed For Star’s Death

    It has been nearly two years since popular Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera was tragically killed in a plane crash.

    Rivera was said to have just been hitting her stride.

    Now the deceased superstar’s estate has filed a lawsuit against Starwood Management Inc, the company that owned the jet that crashed back in December 2012.

    The plane was said to have suddenly plunged 28,000 ft and crashed in Northern Mexico.

    The crash that killed Jenni Rivera also took the lives of her attorney, publicist, hair stylist, make-up artist, and one of the pilots.

    Rivera’s estate has complained that Starwood Management was guilty of negligence, and this led to the popular star’s untimely death.

    Her widower, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Esteban Loaiza, had previously filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Starwood. Apparently the two parties settled as the lawsuit was eventually dismissed at the request of Loaiza.

    The negligence in the current lawsuit is likely the same complaint raised by Loaiza: The belief that the pilots hired by the company to fly the plane were not licensed and that damage to the plane during a 2005 accident was never fixed.

    The possibility that Jenni Rivera’s death was entirely preventable is no doubt heartbreaking to her family members and fans.

    Starwood Management does not appear ready to answer to the lawsuit.

    Attempts by multiple news sources to get a statement about the Rivera case have gone unanswered. The lawyer hired to represent the company has reportedly walked away and has yet to be replaced by Starwood.

    In an interesting and unfortunate turn of events, Rivera’s company has itself been sued by the surviving family members of those who died in the plane crash with Jenni Rivera.

    The attorneys representing Rivera’s company and the legal representatives of the grieving family members are expected to update a judge on Wednesday as to the progress of settlement discussions.

  • Jenni Rivera Dies In Mexican Plane Crash

    Singer Jenni Rivera, renowned for her Banda style, was killed in a plane crash over the weekend in Mexico. She was 43.

    Rivera was headed to Monterrey for a performance, which she’d posted about on Twitter on Friday. The plane she was aboard–along with her makeup artist, lawyer, publicist, and a two-person flight crew–vanished off the radar about 60 miles from their destination on Saturday. Police are investigating the crash site for answers, but for now, the family of the mother of five searches for their own peace.

    Rivera’s mother issued a statement on the news of her daughter’s death, while her father lamented his loss by sharing fond memories.

    “She never gave up and she was good to everyone,” Don Pedro Rivera said. “Remember her with your heart the way she was. She never looked back. She was a beautiful person with the whole world.”

    Rivera was revered for her commanding presence in a field dominated by testosterone. Having come into the music business a little later in life than many stars–she didn’t release her first album until she was 34–she wove life experiences and her views on everything from being a single mother to drug trafficking into her lyrics.

    “She was the Diana Ross of Mexican music,” said Gustavo Lopez, an executive vice president at Universal Music Latin Entertainment, adding that she was the top-grossing female artist in Mexico.

    The plane Rivera was aboard is now scattered in many pieces over a huge area, so it will take a while for investigators to identify the victims and to glean any answers as to what might have happened to cause the crash. For now, friends and fans are sharing their grief on social media sites like Twitter, where the news has spread over the weekend.