Mariel Colon wears a creation as part of the April Black Diamond Spring Summer 2025 collection, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024.Photo by Antonio Calanni/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

'El Chapo' lawyer uses her narco-fame to launch music career

To this day, lawyer Mariel Colon says, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is among the first to hear her new music

by · National Post

Riding in a black SUV with tinted windows, lawyer Mariel Colon rolls up to the gates of a remote mansion, strolling past a security guard side-by-side with Emma Coronel, the wife of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Sporting suits and sunglasses, the pair stride into a dimly lit room full of slickly dressed men smoking cigars.

All to the roar of trumpets.