The event occurred in August 2020 in the city of Valencia. The decision was made by a Spanish court.
A Spanish court has sentenced the Meliá hotel chain to compensate the Latin music star Daddy Yankee and his wife with $908,950 for a jewelry theft from a hotel room in 2020, court documents showed Friday.
Yankee, his wife and their entourage stayed at the Meliá hotel in the Mediterranean city of Valencia in August 2020 to perform at a music festival in the nearby town of Gandía.
On Aug. 6, an unknown individual stole jewelry — including two watches, three chains and four bracelets — valued at more than $1 million from the safe in his hotel room, according to the statement, dated Jan. 9, but made public on Friday.
The court’s decision in favor of Daddy Yankee
The court explained that the thief’s modus operandi could not be ignored when analyzing the responsibility of Melia, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“I would not have been able to commit the robbery if I had not had the invaluable but ignored collaboration” of Meliá, since “its staff provided copies of the room keys and opened a safe without requiring reliable identification from the person who carried out these actions.” requests,” the letter states.
Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Ramon Luis Ayala Rodriguezis best known for the 2004 single “Gasoline”the first reggaeton song nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
He is often credited with coining the word reggaetón to describe the new genre of dance music of the early 1990s, which mixes hip-hop, Latin Caribbean music and reggae rhythms with rap and singing in Spanish.
“Slowly”Yankee’s collaboration with the Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi in 2017, he won several Latin Grammys and Billboard awards that year.
Source: Ambito
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