María del Pilar "Maripily" Rivera Borrero (born 15 June 1977) is a Puerto Rican

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,''Maripily rinde honor a la Virgencita de la Guadalupe.''
Primera Hora. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013. and television presenter.

Early years

María del Pilar Rivera Borrero''De cumpleaños Maripily.''
El Nuevo Dia. Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2014. was born on 15 June 1977 in

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. Her parents were Hector Rivera and Pilar Borrero.''Maripily Rivera.''
Grandes Estrellas. Retrieved 1 January 2014. She earned a

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degree in

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from the

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and for a short time worked as a reporter for

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.''Llegan a un acuerdo.''
Rita Portela López. El Vocero. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

Career

Rivera Borrero has been a model since 1995 when she took part in the Miss Puerto Rico Petite pageant. She was also a finalist in the 1999 Miss Puerto Rico Petite Pageant.''Maripily and Roberto Alomar divorce has Puerto Rico riveted.''
Colleen Jenkins. Tamp Bay Times. 4 September 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2014. She also starred in the reality show "Famosas VIP" in the Telefutura network. Rivera co-hosted "Eso vale" and "No te duermas" with

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in Puerto Rico's

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. She also worked in JAM for

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. Rivera played a casino waitress in the 2009 Puerto Rican film Miente. She was expected to perform in a

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in a 2012 Orlando, Florida, charitable fundraising performance of the play ''Los Monologos de la Vagina'' (

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), but backed out two days beforehand due to a contractual dispute and prior year's problem with expense compensation. Rivera Borrero opened and operated a Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, fashion store for several years called Maripily Boutique, which burned down in 2007, and later reopened. Her current entrepreneurial endeavors include selling her own lines of jeans, swimwear, underwear, shoes, and handbags through the Puerto Rican chain Pompis Store (''pompis'' is Spanish slang for

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). Her clothing design places special importance on flattering a range of body types, including plumper figures. In 2013, she launched her own

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, MP by Maripily.

Personal life

Rivera Borrero had a son from a relationship with José Antonio García. The son was also named José Antonio García. Rivera Borrero married baseball star

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on 1 June 2009. Rivera accused Alomar of domestic violence and a temporary injunction was granted but the charges against Alomar were later dismissed by the Court. Rivera has been called a " sex symbol", a " drama queen" and the "

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of Puerto Rico". In December 2013, Rivera Borrero became engaged to businessman Alberto Rodríguez and they planned a May 2014 wedding. The ceremony was to take place at the historic

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in Ponce, Puerto Rico, with a reception at the equally historic

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castle, with Shanira Blanco scheduled to be her maid of honor. Rodriguez is Chief Operating Officer at

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. The wedding was subsequently cancelled. The couple subsequently got together again and continued to see each other for a while. Then later that year, Maripily Rivera made accusations of domestice violence against Rodriguez resulting in his arrest on 29 October 2014. The matter was brought before judge Deborah White-Labora of the Dade County Courthouse, but was dismissed as the prosecution did not have the necessary evidence. Rodriguez was encouraged to bring charges of defamation and

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against Maripily, but responded that he did not want to pursue the matter, wanted to return to his projects at SBS, and said he "wished aripilythe best in her life and her career" as he left the courthouse.''Albert Rodríguez le desea “paz y bien” a Maripily.''
Primera Hora. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014. With that the couple ended their relationship.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivera, Maripily 1977 births Living people 21st-century Puerto Rican actresses Actresses from Ponce, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican film actresses Puerto Rican television actresses Puerto Rican businesspeople Puerto Rican television presenters

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