Jessica Andrade claims to have been achieved flawed by her former coach and supervisor, Gilliard Parana.
The previous Final Combating Championship (UFC) Strawweight champion has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Parana in the USA, accusing him of the embezzlement of $2 million, per MMA Combating. The pair labored collectively for 12 years, spanning from 2012 to 2024.
Since parting methods with Parana’s health club in Brazil, Parana Vale Tudo (PRVT), Andrade has gained her final two fights, ending Mackenzie Dern with strikes in spherical two earlier than she earned a break up resolution in opposition to Marina Rodriguez at UFC 300 in April 2024.
“We’ve a lawsuit going about TransferWise and the cash that was transferred to different individuals I’ve by no means seen in my life,” Andrade advised MMA Combating. “That occurred when he was caring for my funds, and I had no entry to something. At one level he stated, ‘Jessica, look, let me deal with this for you, you don’t have to fret about any of this.’ And as at all times, I trusted him. He eliminated my entry to the account. He stated, ‘You don’t want to take a look at your accounts, you’ll have a month-to-month wage.’ I used to be making good cash to start with, however in the long run, I don’t know the way [that money ran out].
“He stated I used to be buying an excessive amount of on Amazon, however with the investigation and all that, [we saw that] I made $2 million and spent $10,000 on Amazon,” she continued. “The place did the remainder of the cash go? It is mindless, and it’s being investigated now, and we’ll discover out the place each penny went. I’ll simply watch for now. I’m making ready for this struggle [on Saturday], and as quickly because it’s over, I’ll have a look at this lawsuit once more and hold it transferring
“The lawsuit is transferring in the USA and he’s in Brazil, so I don’t know the way it’s going to work,” Andrade concluded. “He was fairly sensible, he left earlier than issues occurred.”
Andrade, 32, has basically been there and achieved that all through her UFC profession all through three divisions. Developing on practically 40 profession fights together with her thirty ninth (26-12) in opposition to Natalia Silva at Flyweight in UFC Vegas 97’s co-main occasion this weekend (Sat., Sept. 7, 2024), Andrade may begin serious about retiring. Nonetheless, the alleged incident with Parana has put a maintain on that risk.
“I might be serious about retiring now, proper?” Andrade stated. “The truth is, I’ll should hold combating to make that cash once more and have a traditional life. However it’s all good, God is aware of of all issues. Generally we have now to go down so we will get again up higher. I’m able to obtain what God has for my life. God gained’t ever let me surrender.”
In a press release to MMA Combating, Parana denied the accusations, offering the next.
It was by no means like the way in which she’s insinuating, that I stole a single cent from her, a lot much less the quantity she’s speaking about, which is totally baseless.
Anybody who has a mind and is aware of methods to do math will see that she actually doesn’t spend her cash on just some purchases on Amazon. She has plenty of bills, and there are such a lot of that she even will get misplaced within the calculations. Jessica just isn’t incapable. Jessica just isn’t a 15-year-old woman. And Jessica just isn’t illiterate. Jessica was by no means forbidden from going to the financial institution, from calling the financial institution and from discovering out how her accounts had been. Jessica at all times had full entry to her issues and was at all times clever sufficient to know the whole lot that occurred in her monetary life. And I used to be by no means the man who took care of her monetary life. I used to be simply her advisor when she wanted it and requested for it. However all of this can be confirmed if there’s a coherent investigation. Might justice be served and should the wrongdoer pay, as a result of mendacity to the authorities and mendacity to have a trial go your favor can also be a criminal offense. Let’s wait and see what occurs.
One other necessary factor to say is that she says I’ve misplaced the whole lot, that I solely have a health club in Curitiba left which I purchased together with her cash. That is absurd and really petulant of her to say this as a result of I’ve at all times labored. I’m 44. Once I met Jéssica Andrade, I had a pleasant automobile, I had a health club, I had a job. In all of the years that she was with me, I at all times had different athletes. The truth is, in the previous couple of years, I’ve had 4 fighters concurrently within the UFC. She’s speaking as if I had no sources aside from the funds she made me, and he or she doesn’t even point out the funds she made me. From her narrative I had no wage, I had no different jobs, no different athletes, and the whole lot I purchased in my life I stole from her. These are issues that make no sense for her to speak about. And I didn’t even have the health club in Curitiba left as a result of that’s my nephew’s health club, Bruno, who labored for her for a very long time. It’s actually turning into a persecution, her making an attempt to defame me. I used to be — I don’t know if I nonetheless am, however I used to be — a really well-known man in my work as a head coach and staff chief, and I at all times labored onerous representing fighters. I had 4 athletes within the UFC and I at all times earned rather a lot from them as a result of I delivered on my guarantees. Definitely, if I purchased something, if I’ve any property, it’s due to my work as a complete, nothing coming from the flawed factor.
I believe that Jessica in 2023 — which is the 12 months these accusations that had been made by her occurred — she didn’t earn $2 million, as she’s saying she was robbed. It might be one thing near that — until she fought Conor McGregor and nobody came upon. All of you, media, followers, and herself, I feel that after she sees my response right here, if she sits at dwelling and begins to recollect the whole lot she spent, she may have an concept that this calculation she is doing just isn’t including up.
And I at all times advised Jessica that when she stopped combating, bought injured or retired, I might cease working as a head coach as a result of I’m already very uninterested in this sort of speak, with individuals I helped attain the highest, it at all times causes issues. After I introduced my retirement, it’s apparent that the majority of them would go away as properly since I might not be answerable for the work achieved as I at all times did. So when these issues with Jessica occurred, I introduced my retirement and I used to be not joking, I used to be not mendacity. It’s apparent that the opposite athletes would go away, and I didn’t go after them, I didn’t care about conserving them on the staff. Every one went their very own means and I’m certain that I fulfilled the whole lot I promised everybody. I bought everybody out of unhealthy conditions and left everybody properly, whether or not with a contract with the UFC or one other promotion, or working in a greater place.
I made a UFC champion, an Invicta FC champion, and now Mairon [Santos] gained TUF, a man I labored with for six, seven years. I did nice issues within the struggle enterprise and didn’t steal from anybody. I labored onerous as coach and supervisor, and I did very properly in my profession. If I had been to go on about the whole lot I keep in mind right here I’d spend a day speaking about it as a result of there’s rather a lot to speak about, however I hope I don’t want to speak about this stuff anymore.
