Menudo and other children’s groups of the 80s and 90s that went through various scandals – El Financiero

maybe the new generations do not know the children’s groups that predominated in the 1980s and 1990s, but those who did cannot deny having ever chanted popular songs like ‘Pepe’, ‘I’m a disaster’, ‘Claridad’ or ‘Parchis chis chis’.

From groups like Timbiriche, Menudo, Parcheesi and Jeans Famous singers emerged who became soloists, such as Thalía, Paulina Rubio, Ricky Martin or Draco Rosa, although the beginnings of their careers were part of a phenomenon.

Behind their musical concept they have drawn various controversies from its formation, such as internal fights, exploitation, sexual abuse, mistreatment and even drugs, which are also part of its trajectory.

Timbiriche

From creation in 1982the band has gone through different lineups until its last meeting, which was made up of Erik Rubin, Alix Bauer, Mariana Garza, Diego Schoening, Sasha Sokol and Benny Ibarra.

As part of the past women’s day, Sasha publicly denounced having been abused by the producer Luis de Llano, with whom he had a romantic relationship when he was 14 years old and he was 39. Given the practice of grooming, he went to the authorities to make the legal process effective.

However, this is not the first conflict with any of its members. On a Monterrey stage, Paulina Rubio and Thalía came into physical contact; There has also been talk of the relationships between the members and even of a love triangle between Rubin –who also revealed that they used to play heavy jokes on him– with Rubio and Alejandra Guzman.

Slight

Although his story was recently told in the Amazon series Get on my motorcyclethe chiaroscuro for some of its members are still there, since some have opted for denounce his manager Edgardo Díaz for child exploitationas Angelo García did, for the long hours of work that even caused them illnesses.

The strongest accusations come from Roy Rosellówho claimed it was sexually abused by Díaz, who described the statements as false. While he was part of Menudo –from 1983 to 1986–, he assured that he was threatened At 13 years old and even suffered such depression that he tried to take his own life.

Parcheesi

Besides of overwork and exploitation by their record companyformer members of this group whose dissolution became effective in 1985 have spoken about their parties, sex and drug use powder they had during their time of fame. Her parents also entered the controversy since they have declared that they were not paid enough.

Several films and 20 records remain in the history of those formed in 1979 whose sales exceeded 14 million records. Those who will show up at the Aztec stadium they ended up trashing hotel rooms due to lack of supervision. Netflix premiered a documentary by director Daniel Arasanz.

Jeans

Jeans’ debut was in 1996, but a few months later the conflicts began, which in short have been the constant change between the singers. The first to go was Litzy, in 1997, to start a solo career. She later confessed that they called her fat. Tabatha and Regina followed.

That is when the true motives came to light, since the latter filed a lawsuit against Alejandro Sirvent, his representative, due to psychological abuse and breach of contract. Angie and Melissa also left and in 2005 Amiel Tena did the same for her – not counting others who passed by like Dulce María – and confirmed that they kept yelling at her.

In 2014 Regina, Angie, Melissa and Karla regrouped, continuing what they started several years ago. However, they decided rename to JNS since the use of the name still belongs to Sirvent.

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