Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan are getting ready to sue over what they name “ridiculous” and “fantasy” claims after being falsely named in a dismissed lawsuit alleging a secret tunnel linked their Miami dwelling to Diddy’s property for human trafficking.
The Estefans have been dragged into an April 2025 civil criticism filed by Manzaro Joseph, who accused them of facilitating his transport by an underground passage to a 2015 social gathering at Diddy’s Star Island residence.
Joseph claimed he was drugged and sexually assaulted throughout the occasion, which he alleged included celebrities like Jay-Z, Beyoncé and LeBron James — all of whom denied being in Miami on the time.
Chatting with TMZ, Emilio Estefan dismissed your complete case as fiction.
“I’m so glad they threw the entire thing out of the courtroom as a result of it was ridiculous. Primary, they talked about that Beyoncé was there, Jay-Z was there, LeBron was there. None of them was in Miami. And we was not in Miami. We was right here in New York,” he stated.
As for the alleged tunnel, Emilio added, “You can not have a tunnel in Star Island as a result of it’s all water. It’s an island.”
The now-dismissed lawsuit additionally accused Gloria Estefan of witnessing Joseph’s situation and making an attempt to name for medical assist, solely to be stopped by Emilio — a declare each have rejected outright.
Gloria instructed TMZ, “Properly, I’m happy, however they’ll have some explaining to do. We’ve nothing to do with any of that. And it’s simply unhappy that as a result of we’re neighbors, you get thrown into stuff. Music will all the time rise to the highest. And the reality.”
The Estefans at the moment are contemplating a defamation lawsuit towards Joseph and his authorized crew, claiming reputational hurt and potential monetary fallout.
“We’re going to must put a lawsuit towards them as a result of, you understand, we work onerous to develop a status for a few years,” Emilio stated. “They’re gonna must pay, you understand, in all probability do like an apology and inform that each one that was a set-up, attempt to generate income.”
Joseph’s lawyer, Travis R. Walker, has not publicly responded to the Estefans’ authorized threats.
Diddy, who denied all wrongdoing, was acquitted of two intercourse trafficking prices earlier this yr however convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution on July 2, 2025.
He’s set to be sentenced on October 3.
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