- A restraining order was filed against Ricky Martin in Puerto Rico on Friday.
- A complaint was filed under Law 54, also known as the Domestic Abuse Prevention and Intervention Act.
- . Representatives for Martin say the allegations against him are false and fabricated. The singer believes he will be fully vindicated.
Ricky Martin is denying allegations in a domestic abuse restraining order filed in Puerto Rico and believes he will be fully vindicated.
According to the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, a complaint was filed under Law 54, also known as the Domestic Abuse Prevention and Intervention Act, but because of the nature of the legislation, the petitioner’s identity was withheld by the authorities.
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The restraining order was attempted to be issued by police on Friday in a wealthy Puerto Rican neighbourhood, where the musician is from, according to the Associated Press.
According to police spokesman Axel Valencia, “Up until now, police haven’t been able to find him.” Valencia informed the AP that Martin is not permitted to contact the complainant as a result of the order, and that a court will ultimately decide whether the injunction should be upheld.
“The allegations against Ricky Martin that lead to a protection order are completely false and fabricated,” representatives for Martin told PEOPLE. “We are very confident that when the true facts come out in this matter our client Ricky Martin will be fully vindicated.”
According to Telemundo, there is still some ambiguity over the complaint’s specifics. Following a request from an ex parte, Judge Raiza Cajigas Campbell of the Court of First Instance of San Juan granted the order.
Officials apparently also made it clear that the petitioner went to court on their own initiative to ask for a protective order rather than initially making a police complaint.
“We confirm that the Puerto Rico Police is in the process of filing a protection order, under Law 54, issued against Mr. Enrique Martín,” police said in a police statement.
Ricky Martin’s real name is Enrique Martin.
“As established by the nature of the process, from the moment the Police received a copy of the protection order, through the new Center for Operations and Processing of Protection Orders (COPOP), its processing was coordinated by the assigned agents to the Dorado barracks.”
The singer of “Livin’ La Vida Loca” was recently sued for more than $3 million in unpaid commissions by his former manager Rebecca Drucker, according to court documents submitted on Wednesday to the Los Angeles Central District Court.
50-year-old Martin was under Drucker’s direction from 2014 to 2018 and again from 2020 to 2022. Drucker claimed that the later period was brought on by his “personal and professional life [being] in total disarray.”
The 15-page complaint claimed that Drucker helped Martin through “recording contracts, touring and sponsorship deals, and other professional endeavors,” adding, “With Rebecca at his side, Martin made millions of dollars and therefore owes Rebecca substantial commissions.”
Martin, according to Drucker’s lawsuit, was reportedly threatened with a “potentially career-ending allegation” in an encounter that allegedly occurred in September 2020.
She asserted that Martin “emerged unscathed and proceeded with his professional resurgence” thanks to her legal representation.
Drucker also alleged that Martin “fostered a toxic work environment wherein he constantly mistreated, manipulated, and lied to Rebecca, forcing her to resign as his manager in April 2022.”
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She has since claimed that Martin has “threatened” her “and is attempting to force her to sign an agreement with a nondisclosure clause to silence Rebecca about the abhorrent behavior by Martin that she has both witnessed and endured.” Drucker, however, said in the docs she “will not be silenced.”
The complaint added: “For years, she protected Martin from the consequences of his reckless indiscretions. Rebecca did so not only because she was his manager, but also because she thought that Martin was her dear friend.”
