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- Footage has emerged of Diego Maradona on a bed with a teenage girl who claims he trafficked her.
- Mavys Alvarez claims the Argentine also plied her with drugs and kept her locked in a hotel room.
- The video has emerged in a human trafficking case against one of Maradona's associates.
Footage has emerged of Diego Maradona on a bed with a teenage girl who claims the Argentine trafficked her, plied her with drugs, and kept her locked in a hotel room.
Mavys Alvarez, now 37, told TV station America TeVe in September that she was coerced into get breast implants after being groomed and flown to Argentina from her native Cuba by Maradona and his entourage.
The video, obtained by Argentine website Infobae, has emerged in a human trafficking case against one of Maradona's associates, who Alvarez says introduced her to the former Napoli player when she was 16 years old and he was 40.
Filmed in 2000, the video contains numerous clips of both Maradona and Alvarez, one of which shows them lying together on a bed as the Argentine holds the camera. Insider is not publishing images from the video.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Maradona, who died last year aged 60, was in Cuba for a drug rehabilitation course when he met Alvarez at his hotel in the town of Varadero.
In court documents, she says she was then moved into an apartment in Havana by Maradona, where he introduced her to a life of partying and drugs, reports The Times of England.
After being introduced to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who give her a special dispensation to leave the country, she was then taken to Buenos Aires in 2001.
While in Argentina, she claims that she was kept locked in a hotel room for nearly three months and pressured into having breast implants.
She says her relationship with Maradona lasted three years and that she had kept silent until recently out of fear for her family's safety.
"It was the biggest mistake of my life," Alvarez told America TeVe. "I was just a girl. I was pure. He was a stranger, he was rich and he paid attention to me. I could not say no."
Alvarez has filed a complaint with Argentina's prosecutor's office for Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons, alleging that immigration officials let her enter the country without consent from her parents, according to The Times.
Gaston Marano, her lawyer, says there was "collusion between the foreign and local immigration authorities."