Cuban actor William Levy was arrested in the United States. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the arrest took place on April 14 in Weston, and he was booked into the Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale. Here’s what the charges against the actor are.
Why was William Levy arrested?
Levy was reportedly arrested while intoxicated. According to a leaked arrest report, he faces two charges: one for disorderly intoxication in a public place and disturbance, and another for trespassing into an occupied structure or conveyance. As of now, the actor is not eligible for bail.
This isn’t William’s first run-in with the law in the U.S. Back in 2010, he was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. However, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges due to insufficient evidence.
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What is William Levy’s net worth?
Throughout his career as an actor and model, the Cuban-American has built an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Who is William Levy?
William Gutiérrez Levy was born on August 29, 1980, in Havana, Cuba. During his teenage years, he emigrated to Miami with his family, where he eventually rose to fame starring in popular Spanish-language soap operas.
Though his maternal grandfather was Jewish, William was raised in a secular household. He moved to the United States with his mother, his brother Jonathan, and his sister Barbara, settling in Miami, Florida. There, he attended Barbara Goleman Senior High School in the Miami Lakes area. Later, he enrolled at St. Thomas University, where he studied business administration on a baseball scholarship. His passion for the arts led him to Los Angeles to study acting, a path he continued to pursue in both Miami and Mexico City.
Levy started his career as a model with Next Models agency. He later transitioned to television by participating in Telemundo reality shows like Isla de la Tentación and Protagonistas de Novela. In 2005, he appeared in the play La Nena Tiene Tumbao at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His acting career in telenovelas steadily progressed with roles in Olvidarte Nunca on Univision, followed by Mi Vida Eres Tú and Acorralada.
That same year, he starred in the Spanish-language film Retazos de Vida, directed by Viviana Cordero. This role caught the attention of producer Carla Estrada, who cast him in Pasión, marking his breakthrough in Mexican telenovelas. Shortly after, he landed the lead role in Cuidado con el Ángel alongside Maite Perroni. The show premiered in Mexico in June 2008 and began airing in the U.S. on Univision in September of the same year, drawing an average of five million viewers nightly. In 2009, he followed up with another successful telenovela, Sortilegio, also broadcast on Univision.
Levy continued to diversify his career, including voicing the Spanish-language version of the animated film Planet 51, which premiered in Mexico in November 2009 and won Best Spanish-Language Animated Film at the Goya Awards that year.
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His breakout with English-speaking audiences came in 2011 when he starred in the music video for Jennifer Lopez’s I’m Into You, which premiered May 2 on NBC’s Today show. In 2014, William entered Hollywood with Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club. In 2017, he was cast in the lead role in The Veil, directed by Brent Ryan Green. The following year, he joined the FOX drama series Star, where he portrayed Mateo Ferrera for two seasons.
In 2021, he returned to telenovelas as the lead in the Colombian production Café con aroma de mujer. Over the course of his career, William Levy has earned multiple accolades, including four Premios Juventud, cementing his status as one of the most influential Latino actors of his generation.
Who is William Levy married to?
William Levy and Elizabeth Gutiérrez have had an on-again, off-again relationship since 2003. Together, they have two children: Christopher Alexander, born in 2006, and Kailey Alexandra, born in March 2010. In February 2022, William announced via Instagram that he and Elizabeth had decided to separate. However, he deleted the related posts shortly afterward, leading to uncertainty about whether the split actually occurred.
