The series premiere “Follow me “Amazon’s ambitious production on the life of the former president Carlos Saúl Menemwith Leonardo Sbaraglia in the protagonist, was suspended by a scandal that exposes the deepest fractures of a family marked by judicial fights, distrust and a long history of unresolved conflicts. The judicial decision responds to a claim headed by Antonella Menemgranddaughter of the ex -president and daughter of Carlos Menem Jr., who publicly denounced that she was not consulted by the image rights and assured that “they never wanted to give us the documentation” of the contract that enabled the project.
“What the judge has to find out is who signed, who authorized, and what was requested in the contract. No one informed us anything, neither the producers nor Amazon“Antonella explained in dialogue with The trigger By Delta 90.3. “The series began to film after my grandfather’s death and without consent of the royal heirs. We are in full succession, and we don’t even know who gave the rights”
According to the young woman, the focus of the conflict is in the images of both her father and her grandfather. “I am the only one who can authorize my dad’s images. I have a double image rightbecause it’s my dad and my grandfather“, held. “I did not receive anything, because all this is being investigated with my lawyers”
The legal conflict, however, is not exhausted in a contractual issue. Antonella also reported a complex family framework, where destroying, invisibility and silences weigh more than formal rights. “My grandmother never loved me. For her I am the daughter of anyone. For my grandmother I do not exist“He said rarely. He added:”The two DNA say that I am the daughter of Carlitos [Menem Jr.]not Carlos [Saúl Menem]. My mother did not lie with the whole family as she says. Cannot continue to defame like this”
In that context, he said he received threats and lived years of harassment: “People know my whole story and support me, they know what I have been fighting for 30 years. They have threatened to death, I had to move many times“In addition, he revealed that a sector of his family imposed a legal muzzle so that he does not name them publicly.”It was not Carlitos Nahir, but ‘the other party‘, with which I have no link“He said in reference to Aunt and Grandma. He also denounced that he had to leave Buenos Aires and return to Córdoba, where he currently lives in a house that, according to a real estate scam.
The tension climbed to the Amazon platform directly, which according to Antonella never gave explanations: “They never told us anything. They were handled with total lack of transparency”For all this, the former president’s granddaughter warned that the launch of the series is judicially paralyzed and has no planned date:”The premiere will be slowed until everything is well re!”
The conflict not only delays one of the most anticipated political fictions of the season, but also reopens the file of a badly closed heritage. The personal, intimate and painful history of Antonella Menem, which was once considered by many as a minor chapter, today determines a blockbuster that intended to review his grandfather’s legacy. But that legacy, as she demonstrates, is still in dispute.
By rn
