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Selena's family and her husband Chris Perez end long legal feud
Chris Perez, the husband of late Tejano star Selena Quintanilla, says that he and her family have worked out their differences after a long legal feud.
Perez and the Quintanilla family were locked in a legal dispute over Perez's program to create a miniseries based on his memoir, "To Selena, With Love."
In , Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, opposed the show and called the memoir an unauthorized book.
Quintanilla sued Perez and two companies planning to turn the book into a series. The lawsuit said at the time that after Selena's murder, Perez signed a deal that gave all rights to Selena's likeness and name to her estate.
Four years ago, a Texas judge ruled that the lawsuit could move forward. Lawyers for Perez wanted the lawsuit dismissed based on free speech grounds.
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Tuesday afternoon, Perez wr
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What Would Selena Want?: As Netflix Series Begins, The Battle Over Her Estate Wages On
Two months after the murder of Selena Quintanilla Perez, a Harvard-trained lawyer drove the miles from San Antonio, Texas, to Corpus Christi, the blue-collar port city where Tejano’s brightest star had lived in a brick-veneer house with a chain-link fence next door to her parents. He had been summoned by Selena’s famously protective father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., who wanted to ensure that his hold on his daughter’s career — a trajectory he’d been managing since she was in grade school — would continue after her shocking death.
To that end, Quintanilla had asked the lawyer to draft an “estate properties agreement” that preserved the family band’s profit-sharing arrangement and kept him in charge, endowed with “exclusive authority to exploit” Selena’s “name, voice, signature, photograph, and likeness” in per
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Chris Pérez
American guitarist (born )
For other people named Chris Pérez, see Chris Pérez (disambiguation).
Christopher Gilbert Pérez (born August 14, ) is an American guitarist, best known as lead guitarist for the Tejano band Selena y Los Dinos. He married the frontwoman of the group, Selena, on April 2, Pérez grew up in San Antonio, Texas as one of two children of Gilbert Pérez and Carmen Medina. In , he began his tenure by joining Shelly Lares' band. By the late s, Pérez was respected among Tejano musicians for his guitar skills. This caught A.B. Quintanilla's attention; at the time, A.B. was seeking another guitarist for the band he produced, Selena y Los Dinos. Between one and two years after Pérez joined the band, he and Selena began a personal relationship.
Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, forced them to end their relationship because he felt Pérez's image might damage Selena's career. They ignored his threats that he would disband the group, and continued the