She defended 'El Chapo.' Now this lawyer is using her narco-fame to launch a music career
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Mariel Colon wears a creation as part of the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)FILE - Peso Pluma performs during the the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., April 12, 2024. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP File )FILE - Music fans attend the Arre Music Festival, featuring Mexican regional artists, in Mexico City, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme, File)FILE - Invasores de Nuevo Len accordionist Javier Ros performs during the Arre Music Festival, which features Mexican regional musicians, in Mexico City, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)FILE - Dancers performs during the Arre Music Festival which showcases Mexican regional bands, in Mexico City, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)FILE - The dead body of a man, his arm marked with a tattoo of the Virgin of Guadalupe, lies covered on a street in La Costerita neighborhood of Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)FILE - National Guardsmen drive through the main entrance of Jesus Maria, Mexico, Jan. 7, 2023, the town where Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was detained. The government's operation unleashed firefights that ended with the death of military personnel and suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Martin Urista, File)FILE - T-shirts emblazoned with images of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman hang for sale inside the shrine of a faith healer, in Mexico City, Oct. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)FILE - Mexican National Guardsmen cover a body found lying on the side of a road in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)FILE - Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican narco Joaquin Guzman, alias El Chapo, is reflected in a mirror wearing a creation from the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection in Milan, Italy, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)FILE - Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican narco Joaquin Guzman, alias El Chapo, wears a creation from the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection in Milan, Italy, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)FILE - Emma Coronel, center, and lawyer Mariel Coln leave a federal court, in New York, Jan. 17, 2019, after attending the trial of Coronel's husband Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File)Wearing an April Black Diamond creation, Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, poses for a photo with the designer during a Spring Summer 2025 collection presentation, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)Reflected in a mirror, Emma Coronel, wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, wears a creation as part of the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)FILE - Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican narco Joaquin Guzman, alias El Chapo, wears a creation from the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection in Milan, Italy, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)FILE - Members of "Los Varones de Culiacan" perform during an interview in their manager's home in Culiacan, Mexico, July 23, 2015. The band composed a song based on a prison escape by drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. (AP Photo/Fernando Brito, File)FILE - Los Tucanes de Tijuana, perform at the 2012 Billboard Mexican Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, Oct. 18, 2012. (Photo by J. Emilio Flores/Invision/AP File)FILE - A handcuffed Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is made to face the press as he is escorted to a helicopter by Mexican soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)FILE - A fan poses for a photo with an inflatable AK-47 inflatable at the Arre Music Festival which features Mexican regional music, in Mexico City, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)FILE - Fans arrive to the Arre Music Festival which showcases regional Mexican music, in Mexico City, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme, File)
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Mariel Colon wears a creation as part of the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)