Is Vhong Navarro Dead Or Still Alive After Accident? Where Is Filipino Comedian Today?

Vhong Navarro is not dead. He survived the attack that left him half-dead in January 2014. His death news has recently become a center of interrogation because, on August 7, 2022, a lawyer bemoaned the alleged disappearance of Vhong Navarro’s illegal case file.

To those unknown about rape allegations against Navarro, a Filipino model Deniece Cornejo filed a lawsuit against Navarro for alleged sexual assault on January 22, 2014, the same night Navarro was beaten up by a group of men.

Navarro claims that Cornejo, Cedric Lee, and their other friends attacked him for extortion money. In the meantime, Cornejo’s defense team argued that Lee and the company discovered him trying to rape Cornejo, which is why he got attacked. On the evening of January 22, 2014, Cornejo filed a lawsuit of attempted sexual misconduct, but Navarro, on the other hand, denied such allegations.

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Their legal battle ended with a massive social media outcry wherein Cornejo lost the suit. However, in a judgment dated July 21, 2022, the 14th Division of the Court of Appeals (CA) overturned and annulled earlier decisions from the Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2018 and 2020 that dismissed Cornejo’s 2014 complaint alleging Navarro of attempting to force her in sexual things. 

The defense team for Cornejo argued that she was the innocent party and that she had been the victim of two different crimes: first, a sexual attack, and then, a trial where she was falsely accused and Navarro took the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, Navarro’s team was working to submit a move for reconsideration of the CA’s judgment.

Nevertheless, now the news reports that the illegal case file has gone missing.

Navarro’s accident roots in the 2014 attack incident wherein a group of men beat him up. As the news of his accident gyrated across the Internet, a death hoax news story succeeded. 

However, Vhong Navarro is still alive. According to sources, Navarro was in a coma following the incident and required surgery due to a gang attack. His manager then stated that Navarro was accosted by a bunch of men inside a Taguig condominium. He was restrained, given a face blow that left him half-dead. 

The whole thing began when a female who was allegedly his acquaintance brought him to a party at a condo. The incident continued until a bunch of men beat up Navarro. Navarro’s doctor said he had numerous injuries to his torso and extremities, including shattered bones. He even required surgery on his nose.

Regardless, Navarro survived the attack, but the cause of the attack- the consequence of attempted sexual assault, is still going through legal procedures.

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Navarro’s Illegal case file has been reported missing. On August 7, 2022, Ferdinand Topacio, Cornejo’s lawyer, decried the allegedly missing case file as another setback in the case of model Deniece Cornejo, who claimed the actor had molested her in 2014. 

Cornejo’s attorney, Ferdinand Topacio, expressed optimism that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will resolve the matter. According to Topacio, the DOJ, particularly those in charge of maintaining the security of the official records, could be held liable for the missing case file.

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In a video conference, Topacio asserted that the missing file scenario was a crime and impropriety in handling government documents. He declared that to expedite the case’s settlement, and he would enlist the aid of Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla. Topacio stated that if the DOJ maintained that the records were lost, Cornejo’s team might petition for a reconstitution of the file.