Emma Coronel Aispuro Parties After Prison

In a twist of fate that reads like a thriller, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of drug lord El Chapo, celebrated her recent prison release at an exclusive California bar. Her stepson, Ovidio Guzmán López, was extradited to the U.S. for drug trafficking.

Emma Coronel Aispuro Parties After Prison
Emma Coronel Aispuro, radiant in her first public appearance since her release, celebrates Mexico's Independence Day. Screen grab

The contrast couldn't be starker. Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, stepped out in Lynwood, California, for a night of celebration at El Farallon bar, two days after her release from prison. Meanwhile, Ovidio Guzmán López, better known as “El Ratón,” her stepson and “Chapo's” child from a previous marriage, was extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges. These parallel lives—one marked by freedom, the other by judicial proceedings—highlight the enigmatic existence of a family entangled in a web of drug trafficking, politics, and now even music and pop culture.

Emma Coronel, 34, a former beauty queen and the third wife of “El Chapo” had just completed two and a half years of her three-year sentence. Her offenses included drug trafficking and money laundering, in addition to aiding her husband, who has been incarcerated for the past four years, serving a life sentence. She had been transferred from a Texas prison to a minimum-security facility in California, from which she was released this past Wednesday.