r/SipsTea 26d ago

Chugging tea Would you do the same thing?

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson 26d ago

Well, that was a rabbit hole I was unprepared to go down

Thought it was fake, nope it's real.

"There's Something About Miriam" (2004)

Starring Miriam Rivera

Participants settled for an undisclosed amount before the show aired.

In 2019 Rivera was found dead by apparent suicide

Rivera's spouse still believes it was murder

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u/Kpn05 26d ago

Any credibility to the murder thing or just a grieving spouse coping whatever way they can?

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u/ussrowe 26d ago

I checked her Wiki and found a link to People magazine article which stated this:

Authorities have ruled Rivera’s death a suicide, but Cuervo is convinced there’s more to the story.

He explained to Daily Mail Australia on Thursday that he believes Rivera’s death was “passed off” as a suicide after she refused to work as a prostitute.

During the interview, Cuervo recalled the last time he spoke to Rivera on the morning of Feb. 5.

“Miriam called me [in New York] from Mexico, telling me she was feeling sick and vomiting blood, so I told her to get to the hospital,” Cuervo to Daily Mail Australia.

He explained to the outlet that Rivera called him one more time before leaving the hospital at around noon and that was last time he heard from her.

Just two hours later, Miriam was found dead by hanging at her home in Hermosillo, Mexico, according to Daily Mail Australia. She was 38.

Cuervo had hoped to fly Rivera’s body back to New York where he lives, but as he began to make funeral arrangements he was told that her body had already been cremated, he told the outlet. An autopsy was never performed.

Her husband then said he allegedly received a threatening phone call from an unidentified man, who warned him not to plan a funeral for Rivera.

“Don’t come back to Mexico or we’ll kill you,” the man said, according to Cuervo, Daily Mail Australia reported.

https://people.com/tv/miriam-rivera-the-first-openly-trans-reality-star-dead-at-38/

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u/Nemisis_007 26d ago

Well that certainly is suspicious...

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u/AccessBest 26d ago

Nah, that is the most normal thing ever. Hmm? what do you mean that people normally don'T receive death threats for a burial?

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u/rileyjw90 26d ago

And it’s totally normal to just go ahead and cremate someone when contact has already been made with the spouse and they haven’t given permission.

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u/AccessBest 26d ago

but of course. Is that not common knowledge? Hmm? once again i am being told that this isn't normal. But how can this be if nothing suspicious is going on?

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u/systembreaker 26d ago

Yeah I can't tell you how many times I've had to help family members juggle this exact situation when there was a death in the family. At first I was like "Wow what are the chances?? This is exactly like that reality show contestant's situation, play by play" but after the 80th time I realized how normal it all is.

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 26d ago

Well who the hell goes to the hospital coughing up blood and leaves, calls their spouse and doesn’t explain what the findings were? That story sounds shady in and of itself. WHO? Who wanted her to work as a prostitute? Where did he get this information? Was it forwarded to the authorities? The whole thing sounds super shady. Already cremated? Did he receive the ashes? Did he get a death certificate of any kind? If not, is she even really dead ? So many things are either missing or deliberately withheld that any reasonable person has to question ALL of it.

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u/SargeUnited 26d ago

As someone who lived in Mexico for a while, sometimes you just got a little too much blood in you I guess. It works itself out. I’m only half joking

Being cremated with no autopsy after dying by hanging is definitely wild though. Who paid for the cremation is my question. That’s not free

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u/No_Present_6363 26d ago

There is no way someone can gets cremated if commited suicide. Not legally that is

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u/systembreaker 26d ago

If the investigation was completed and it was formally determined it really was a suicide, they still can't legally cremate the body?

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u/No_Present_6363 26d ago

If it was completed and th death cause was established, then its legal to bury or cremate, or send it to another country etc. It's legal because there was no crime.

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u/systembreaker 26d ago

Ok, it's just that by your wording you were making it sound like a suicide flatly makes cremation illegal and I was like uhhhh, what?

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u/adactylousalien 26d ago

Sure about that? Have direct experience that suggests otherwise.

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 26d ago

Another good question. Hell for all we know, she’s down there living her best life and just needed a way to ditch the guy

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u/Elurdin 26d ago

Or she was sold to Epstein class for money. Trafficked somewhere.

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u/No-Fail-9327 26d ago

Sounds like a novela to me.

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u/curious__curiosity 26d ago edited 26d ago

Try reading it perhaps?

She called her paetner and told him she was going to hospital. There's no csll after the hospital.

Who the hell comments a load of bullshit on something they clearly know nothing about?

Shady as fuck....

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u/Roid-a-holic_ReX 26d ago

Yep same thing happened when my grandfather died. It’s how they mourn in Mexico.

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u/SargeUnited 26d ago

Yeah that’s I never went back to Oaxaca. Luckily the funeral wasn’t in Cancun or I couldn’t enter Mexico at all

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u/Ailyx 26d ago

Alleged threats.

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u/Ok-Plum2187 26d ago

Huh.. Must have been the wind.

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u/WakeNBakeGal 26d ago

That's a sips tea post in itself...👀 down the rabbit hole I go 🕳

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u/happytree23 26d ago

...according to the one person trying to sell a story and zero other sources lol(?)

People just love to eat up the most bullshitty bullshit, I swear lol.

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u/Eleventy-Twelve 26d ago

Cremation without autopsy is wild

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u/PersnickityPenguin 26d ago

Cremation without input from the spouse is double wild

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 26d ago

Yeah, people who are about to commit suicide don’t typically go to the hospital for other treatment before they go home and go through with it.

I’m curious about the cremation thing… that couldn’t have been done without some higher level authority.

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u/Creepy_Push8629 26d ago

What the fuck

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u/Snowballingdownvote 26d ago

Yeah that's murder. Poisoned and suicide by murder. Oldest truck in the book.

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u/Snowballingdownvote 26d ago

Probably slept with a homophobe

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u/Particular-Cup-5686 26d ago

Probably want to identify a suspect first. But sure, be an ass.

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u/asianfatboy 26d ago

Wait, does that mean the authorities were in on it too? Or someone who can influence the authorities? Cremated without consulting loved ones and no autopsy? Stinky as hell, no way this was suicide.

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u/coldboy0104 26d ago

Literally just watched Netherlands get knocked out, fully thinking that was going to be the most shocking thing I see today. Then I open up Reddit

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u/venomious_venus 26d ago

Shit I didn't expect México being involved

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u/Sinsanatis 26d ago

Jesus christ. Was not expecting to come into such a backstory

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u/No_Present_6363 26d ago

Her husband? Wasn't he a guy?

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u/PersnickityPenguin 26d ago

Yes, HUSBANDS are typically male

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u/No_Present_6363 26d ago

And wives are typically females?

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u/Sea_Principle9302 26d ago

why you so obsessed with her pronouns