Jan Sterling

After a long bout with diabetes, a broken hip, and a number of strokes, Jan Sterling died on March 26, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, a few days before her 84th birthday. She had spent nearly five years incarcerated in Brazil and Mexico. Inactive for nearly two decades, she made an appearance at the Cinecon Film Festival in Los Angeles in the fall of 2001. On September 21, 2004, Trevi was acquited and set free by a Mexican court, citing a lack of evidence in the case. They never married but stayed together until his death in 1993. After she learned that she would not be allowed to go free, she began a hunger strike. In the 70s she entered into a strong personal relationship with actor Sam Wanamaker. She was denied freedom at the time, however, and remains jailed.

Herbert Hoover in the TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House. On February 24, 2004, she was expecting to be set free by Mexico's justice system. She retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969 and returned before the cameras in 1976 to portray Mrs. On November 27 of 2003, her former manager Andrade was extradited to Mexico and jailed in the same facility as Trevi, but they will not be allowed to get in contact there. Married and divorced to actor John Merivale (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0580881/) in the 40s, Sterling's career slipped down after the death of her second husband, actor Paul Douglas, in 1959. However, no body or evidence of that happening for real were found, so they were not charged of any murder. During the following years, she appears regularly in movies like Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Kathy O, and The Female Animal. There were allegations also that, while fugitive, Trevi supposedly gave birth to a baby girl of Andrade, and that they left the baby to die.

Also the same year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time. Brazil's authorities came to an agreement with Mexican authorities and, on December 21, 2002 they extradited Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas to Mexico so they can face charges there. Her baby ended up living with his grandmother, Trevi's mother. In 1954 Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her great performance in The High and the Mighty. She was released under a Brazilian law that allows women who give birth while prisoners to live in a house with their children, but her new freedom lasted short, because once again, Mexican authorities began to ask for her, so she had to be taken back to jail. Shuttling between films and television, she showed up in nearly all the major live anthologies of the 1950s, stood out in such 'bad girl' film roles in Caged (1950), The Big Carnival [aka 'Ace in the Hole'] (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), The Human Jungle (1954), and Female on the Beach (1955), while making a more sympathetic impression in Sky Full of Moon (1952). But, after giving birth to a baby boy, she admitted the boy was Andrade's son. In 1948 she broke into films supporting the Academy Award winner Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda, in a key, emotional role. In the new jail facility, she became pregnant, and she initially accused a jail guard of raping her, supposedly causing the pregnancy.

Then, the actrees Ruth Gordon insisted she change her stage name and the two hit upon 'Jan Sterling'. In the song, which didn't seem to be a written song but one she was making up, she talks of how she'd done everything for the love of a man. Seldom cast in passive roles, Sterling was at her best in parts calling for hard-bitten, sometimes hard-boiled determination. Soon after, a tape where she can be heard singing songs allegedly to Andrade on the plane ride became public. As a teenager she returned to Manhattan, and billed as Jane Sterling, made her first Broadway appearance in Bachelor Born and went on to appear in such major stage offerings as Panama Hattie, Over 21 and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her movies debut in Tycoon, now billed as Jane Darian. Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were flown from their original jail to another facility because of over-crowding. She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Compton's dramatic school in London. A legal battle ensued because Brazilian prosecutors wanted them charged there, but Mexican prosecutors claimed that the three prisoners belonged to them because they had begun their practices while still in Mexico.

Sterling was educated in private schools before heading to Europe with her family. When they were caught, the news travelled all over Spanish speaking people instantly. Jan Sterling was born Jane Sterling Adriance on April 3, 1921, in New York City, NY, into a prosperous family. In Brazil, Trevi allegedly enjoyed walking around the neighborhood where she was living at, and eating at a local bakery every day. One of Hollywood's most talented and versatile stars, often cool and stunning blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 1940s and '50s, the actrees Jan Sterling ensured audiences of a real good time with her sexy roles in soaps, crime action and comedies. But before Trevi, Andrade and Boquitas were caught, they escaped to Brazil, where they were able to live for a couple of years, until they were finally caught by Brazilian police and arrested, being taken to jail. Trevi, Andrade and the rest of their 'troop' soon escaped to Argentina, where the remaining girls escaped and were soon flown to Mexico.

By this time, Trevi, Boquitas and Andrade were the talk of every Spanish tabloid television show in the United States, and most of Latin America. Soon after, Karina Yapor, a girl from Northern Mexico, gave birth to a baby boy she alleged to be Andrade's son. Around 1997, many of the girls that were allegedly abused escaped Andrade's side and declared stories of horror and violence to television cameras, and Andrade and Trevi were able to fly out of Mexico without being captured, stopping in Spain and Chile before they were declared, along with a third accomplice named Mary Boquitas, as fugitives of the Mexican judicial system. According to the book, named De La Gloria Al Infierno (From Glory to Hell), Trevi was also a willing participant of Andrade's scams, and she had fallen in love with her manager, supposedly participating in his manager's sexual orgies and slavery acts with the teenaged girls just to please him.

But then, in 1995, Sergio Andrade's former wife pubished a book about how Andrade allegedly would pick up teenaged girls and lure them into a web of sex and slavery by promising to make them superstars. Trevi became more seclusive after that, and for years, all that was heard about her was rumors and questions. Then, her second movie, also named like her song, Zapatos Viejos, was released. She released a new calendar, which was, according to many of her fans, more suggestive than the first one.

The album's name was Me Siento Tan Sola (I Feel so Lonely), and was taped in Los Angeles. Her third album was released in 1993, and it garnered her another hit, Zapatos Viejos (My Old Shoes). Meanwhile, she kept talking in public about such things as teen sex, abortion, drugs, AIDS, prostitution and anything that came into her mind. She also released her first calendar, which was considered by many of her fans and critics to be very suggestive and sexually oriented.

In 1992, she began a tour all over the Caribbean and South America, which took her to such countries like Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile. The movie became a number one ticket hit, and Gloria was invited to tour at many countries. In it, she participated with fellow wild living former world boxing champion Jorge Paez. Trevi then filmed a movie, also named Pelo Suelto.

She followed up her first record, with the 1991 album Angel De La Guardia (Guardian Angel), which became even more successful than the first one, her song Pelo Suelto (Loose Hair) becoming her most widely known hit and a number one hit all over Latin America and for the Latino population in the United States. A lot of times, during her television interviews, the talk show host would mention her childhood and she'd go from acting happy to spreading her tears from one minute to the other. Trevi, however, also carried herself to the public as a girl who could break up and cry at any minute and for anything she heard about. At that point of her career, it became common for many little girls and teenaged females to dress themselves like Gloria during her concerts.

Despite the way she carried herself on stage, she was also able to become very popular among Mexico's and Latin American children. Trevi would even bring unsuspecting male members of her public during her presentations to the stage and undress them. She soon became known as a challenger to the machismo ideas of many of Mexico's men, breaking social standards and taking a feminist stand point on many of her songs, while exploring sexuality in away that not many female Mexican entertainers had done before her. Psychiatrist), and four other songs from that album went up on the charts too.

Siquiatra (Dr. The album scored an instant number one hit for her, Dr. In 1989, and with the help of Andrade, Trevi released her first album, named Y Que Hago Aqui? (But What am I Doing Here?). Before meeting Andrade, she worked singing and dancing on the streets for change money, as well as teaching ballet for twelve hours each day and serving tacos at a taco stand. Before that, in 1985, she was a member of a short lived girl group named Boquitas Pintadas (Little Colored Mouths).