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Foul play suspected in death of There’s Something About Miriam star.

Transgender model Miriam Rivera, who starred in Big Brother Australia, died earlier this year.

Transgender model Miriam Rivera, who starred in There’s Something About Miriam and Big Brother Australia, died earlier this year, aged just 38.

Rivera was found dead in Hermosillo, Mexico on February 5 but the cause of death remains a mystery. No autopsy was conducted before her body was cremated.

Her husband Daniel Cuervo suspects foul play, now claiming her death may have been ‘passed off’ as a suicide after she refused to accept work as a prostitute.

“On the morning of February 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,” he told Daily Mail Australia.

“She called me again before leaving the hospital at 12pm and that was the last time we spoke.”

By 2pm she was dead.

Close friend Jeanett Ørtoft also echoed similar sentiments about the death being suspicious.

“Some say she was killed for going against human trafficking, others say that she took her own life,” she said.

Remy Blumenfeld, the British television producer who created There’s Something About Miriam told Daily Mail Australia this week he was ‘very saddened to learn of Miriam’s death at such a young age.’

“She was a warm, loving and generous human being, with huge courage and personal grace,” he said.

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2 Responses

  1. how awful, life is never easy for transgender people especially not in some countries where they are even less accepted into the mainstream. RIP Miriam.

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