Juan Lopez Died on July 14, 2009, at the age of 37. He was in prison at the time of his death, serving a sentence for drug trafficking. The cause of death was pneumonia complications. Lopez was born in Nayarit, Mexico, on March 17, 1972. He met Rivera in 1997 and they married in 1999. The couple had two children together, Jacqueline and Michael. They divorced in 2003.