THE WOMAN THEY CALLED A PEASANT WALKED INTO COURT WEARING DIAMONDS—AND DESTROYED THE EMPIRE HER HUSBAND STOLE
PART 2: THE PAPERWORK HE FORGOT SHE UNDERSTOOD Eleven years earlier, the first Alvarez grocery store had smelled of fresh bread, floor cleaner, dust, and hope. It sat on a narrow street in Guadalupe between a laundromat and a repair shop with a broken blue sign. The front window had a crack in…
