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   From: bksherman@fucking-panic.com   
      
   Emma Coronel Aispuro went back to being a brunette for her mug   
   shot last week.   
      
   The glamorous beauty-queen wife of Mexico’s most notorious drug   
   trafficker had last appeared in public as a blonde, her hair   
   cascading down her bareback in a glamorous, white-lace wedding   
   dress that she modeled for Mexican designer Benito Santos on   
   Instagram. In another photo, she models a hip-hugging, sparkly   
   purple gown.   
      
   But as she prepares to rat out high-ranking members of the   
   Sinaloa cartel, including her own stepsons, Coronel Aispuro was   
   forced into a more sober look in drab prison greens, her pouty   
   lips free of red lipstick.   
      
   “She’s definitely cooperating,” a federal law enforcement source   
   told The Post, adding that the wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman   
   is a likely candidate for witness protection.   
      
   “Emma wants to get far away from the violence, and has always   
   wanted to live in the US,” said the source. She was born in   
   California and has dual US/Mexican citizenship.   
      
   Coronel Aispuro, 31, turned herself into authorities in   
   Washington earlier this week and faces more than 10 years in   
   prison if convicted on drug-trafficking charges. She is also   
   accused of helping Guzman, 63, escape from a maximum-security   
   Mexican prison in 2015, and helping to plan another escape   
   before he was extradited to the US in 2017, according to court   
   papers.   
      
   The leggy brunette, fond of flashy designer clothes, was a   
   fixture at her husband’s trial in Brooklyn federal court in   
   2019. At the time, The Post exclusively reported that she was   
   under federal investigation for helping to run the cartel that   
   is now spearheaded, the source said, by stepsons Ovidio Guzman   
   Lopez, 30, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, 37, Jesus Alfredo Guzman   
   Salazar, 34, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, whose age is unknown.   
      
   Along the way, the former journalism student and aspiring model   
   has amassed nearly 600,000 Instagram followers. She posts   
   glamorous photographs of herself in low-cut blouses and   
   chandelier diamond earrings, and shared Instagram stories about   
   her luxe vacation in Venice shortly after Guzman was sentenced   
   to life at a maximum-security Colorado federal prison in July   
   2019. There were videos of gondola rides and dinners overlooking   
   the canals. One video showed two glasses of white wine at an   
   outdoor restaurant, but it wasn’t clear whether she was on a   
   date.   
      
   Previous photos uploaded to her social media sites during her   
   husband’s trial showed the brunette in skimpy bikinis on   
   windswept beaches. Others featured her in skinny jeans paired   
   with stilettos and Prada handbags, standing amid a fleet of high-   
   end sports cars. Those photographs and the video stories have   
   since been taken down.   
      
   Following the trial, Coronel Aispuro also registered the “El   
   Chapo Guzman” trademark to hawk a line of clothing, cell phone   
   cases and hats, according to public records.   
      
   Although it’s unclear if the commercial venture went forward,   
   Coronel Aispuro did retain many of her fans. Shortly after news   
   of her arrest on Monday, many of those social-media followers   
   left heart emojis next to photographs of Coronel Aispuro in a   
   tight black leather jacket, a golden crown on her head, and   
   enhanced red lips.   
      
   Her followers expressed shock that “la Reinita” — the little   
   queen — who also managed a guest appearance on VH1’s “Cartel   
   Crew” two years ago, had been arrested. “Is it true that Emma is   
   in jail?” asked one of her Instagram followers. “Free the   
   queen,” wrote another.   
      
   Coronel Aispuro, the mother of 9-year-old twin girls Emali   
   Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina, is being represented by a team of   
   lawyers led by Manhattan attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who also   
   defended her husband.   
      
   “She already had her defense attorney lined up before she got on   
   a plane to turn herself in,” the source told The Post. “Her   
   number one priority is to protect her kids and remain in the US.”   
      
   She has long denied any knowledge of her husband’s drug   
   business. But an FBI agent who debriefed more than 100 members   
   of the Sinaloa cartel said in court papers that “Coronel was   
   aware of multi-ton cocaine shipments, multi-kilo heroin   
   production, multi-ton marijuana shipments and ton-quantity   
   methamphetamine shipments.” After visits to her husband in   
   Mexican prisons, she relayed messages to his trusted deputies,   
   court papers say.   
      
   During Guzman’s trial in Brooklyn, Damaso Lopez Nunez, the drug   
   lord’s longtime lieutenant, testified that El Chapo contacted   
      
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