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(And we still don’t know why we’re here, please stop the turning of the
world, the morning cried, what did enteng and joey write in the golden
mirror I couldn’t read because someone erased it).
When Delia was barely 13, her mother introduced her to talent manager
Rey dela Cruz who changed her name to “Pepsi Paloma” to join his stable of
other “soft drink” beauties which included Sarsi Emmanuel and Cola
Nicolas. Dela Cruz secured Pepsi’s starring role in her first movie, a “bold”
feature called Brown Emmanuelle in 1981.
Less than a year later, according to her account, while promoting one of her
movies, Pepsi met the three comedian hosts of Eat Bulaga – Vic Sotto, Joey
de Leon and Richie D’Horsey (Richie Reyes). The three men took her out to a
bar, drugged her, and then gang raped her in a hotel room. (Because she
was only 14 at the time, these comedians were pedophile rapists.)
If convicted of the rape charge, the three comedians faced the death penalty,
a sentence that was meted out previously in 1967 to the four rapists of
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To prevent the same fate from befalling his younger brother, Sen. Tito Sotto
quickly went to see Pepsi Paloma while she was still securing the services of
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Atty. Cayetano. According to her account of this visit, Sen. Sotto “coerced”
her into signing an “Affidavit of Desistance” to drop the rape complaint
against his brother and his cohorts.
[But how could that affidavit be legal when she was only 14 when she
signed it and she did so without the presence of her attorney? But this
happened in 1982 during martial law and the Sottos were said to be favored
by the Marcos dictatorship.]
How was she coerced? In her November 3, 2012 column in the Philippine
Daily Inquirer, Rina Jimenez David described this incident as follows:
“Paloma eventually dropped the charges after she was allegedly visited by
one of the trio who said he had only talked with her, but only after placing a
pistol on the table in front of her.”
Three years after her rape, on May 31, 1985, Pepsi was found dead in her
apartment with a rope looped around her neck. The police concluded that it
was a suicide caused by “monetary problems” and this was the official story
that appeared in the headlines of the newspapers.
But her manager, Babette Corcuerra, disputed the press account. “She was
earning well and was fully booked for dancing performances. She just
finished the Pepsi Paloma Show at the Bughaw and 10 other beerhouses,”
Corcuerra said, and she had three film offers lined up, she added.
It just did not add up, Corcuerra said. “She was looking forward to
celebrating her 18th birthday next year. She made me promise to throw a
big party for her at a hotel because it would be her debut,” Corcuerra told
the Times Journal.
“Eat Bulaga!” is now entering its 35th year as the longest-running noontime
variety on air program in the history of television, making millionaires of
its comedic stars.
Sen. Tito Sotto is still in the Philippine Senate serving as the proud
champion of the Holy Roman Catholic Church in his staunch opposition to
the Reproductive Health Act and to all forms of contraception.
Pepsi Paloma would have celebrated her 47th birthday this year.
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Jun_Sabas • 4 years ago
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Nakatagpo ng katapat si Tito Sotto sa katauhan ni Ely Buendia. I believe the song
Spoliarium is Ely's revenge for Tito's proposal to ban another EHead song (Alapaap) from
the air. Sotto, a rabid anti-drug crusader, thinks Alapaap encourages drug use.
Ely found a subtle way of reviving the injustice that made news in the 80's. The plagiarist
met a real artist.
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can
.shed lights on this, so justice will be served.
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Roy Yor • 4 years ago
Whilst 45 Seconds
I am an avid fan of Eat Bulaga, I completely denounce Vic's womanizing with his
90 Seconds
co-hosts, who are younger to be his granddaughter. When I heard about Pauline's
having an affair with him, I have just wished it weren't true. And why call Vic 30 Seconds
"Bossing" by everyone inside and outside the show? He is not the
60 Seconds
producer of the show, and he doesn't pay everyone's salary nor the prices at
stake given in the show.
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SC Kang • 4 years ago
Has any reporter been brave enough to ask Sotto et al about the song?
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The Pepsi Paloma case is, indeed, a dark chapter in the lives of the EB hosts. Their
apology, on bended knees, may have prompted the victim to forgiveness. Her own death,
whether really suicide or murder came years after, and may not have anything to do with
the supposed rape.
I suppose that the media might come out in the near future with more stories and films
about her that would portray these TV personalities either on the side of the angels or
demons, depending on who produces them. And from heaven (or elsewhere), she might
look down with humor on the protagonists, as a once black slave in America would look on
dogs fighting for a bone. Because she is the bone.
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However, the issue will never die down even TVJ die in time.
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