Mexican actress portrays own kidnapping

“It seems like a scene from a bad Mexican soap opera. But for Zapata, one of the country’s most famous actresses, the drama she acts out in her autobiographical new play, Captives, is painfully real.

In November 2002, she and her sister, Ernestina Sodi, were kidnapped outside a theater in Mexico City. Zapata was released after 18 days to collect the multimillion-dollar ransom, but Sodi was held for another 16 days. The criminals were after the fortune of their victims’ even more famous sister, Mexican pop star Thalia, and her husband, music industry mogul Tommy Mottola….”

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