Ana María Polo faces a demand of more than 2 million dollars
Dr. Ana María Polo, presenter of the Caso Cerrado TV show, faces a demand of more than 2 million dollars for the rights to the name of the program. The lawsuit was filed by Marlene Key, former executive producer of the show. The news was announced by the actor and journalist Erich Concepción and producer José Antonio Orta, co-founder of Caso Cerrado, who provided evidence of the judicial process through the program El arañazo online of the channel Somos Miami TV.
During the interview with the presenter Omar Moynelo, Concepción said that, according to his sources, at a time when Dr. Polo was ill, she transferred all of her possessions to Key.
"There is a demand for the illegal use of the name Caso Cerrado, which is in Marlene's name, and for the extraction (by Ana María Polo) of an account of more than half a million dollars. All this is spiced up with the way in which Ana María Polo confronted all the production that had relations with Marlene, "said Concepción, who then told El Nuevo Herald that if he brought up the case in the Moynelo program it was because "it's about a public figure that everyone wants to know about".
El Nuevo Herald was able to verify that the lawsuit was filed in 2016 and that the case is still open.
For his part, José Antonio Orta, corroborated this publication that after the break between Polo and Key "a few years ago, an atmosphere of tension was created in the study that prevented work in peace".
"It was impossible to go to work because everyone was friends with both of them. One did not know what to say. Every day we faced a new chapter. That seemed like a closed case segment", Orta said. "Ana María drove Marlene out of production and that destabilized the program, to the point that the Swiss machine that it was, never has been again. The program has lost between 40 and 45 percent in audience levels".
"This lawsuit is an unfortunate attempt to damage the image of Dr. Ana María Polo and to affect her well-known creativity, as well as the success of her Caso Cerrado program", said publicist Paola Marín of Santa Cruz Communications. "For this reason, she will respond with all the weight of the law to these unsubstantiated allegations in order to obtain their resolution through the corresponding legal channels. There is a confidentiality agreement ordered by the court that Dr. Polo will respect".
