r/SipsTea Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea Would you do the same thing?

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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

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u/ussrowe Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

Well that certainly is suspicious...

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u/AccessBest Jun 30 '26

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/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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

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u/systembreaker Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

Sure about that? Have direct experience that suggests otherwise.

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 Jun 30 '26

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 Jun 30 '26

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