Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s wife was released from a United States prison after serving nearly two years of her three-year sentence.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, was given her original sentence after pleading guilty to helping run her husband’s drug empire. Her release was confirmed in a statement to the Washington Examiner by a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman.

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“We can confirm Emma Coronel Aispuro was released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) today, September 13, 2023. For privacy, safety, and security, the FBOP does not provide additional information on those who are no longer in our custody,” Donald Murphy, a spokesman for the FBOP, confirmed in an email.

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Coronel was released from a residential reentry management facility in Long Beach, California. As part of her 2021 plea deal, she will now be under four years of supervised release, and forfeit $1.5 million.

Coronel, a former teenage beauty queen and dual Mexican-U.S. citizen, married Guzman on her 18th birthday in 2007. She became the target of public fascination during her and her husband’s trial, expressing unwavering loyalty to her husband.

“I don’t know my husband as the person they are trying to show him as,” Coronel told the New York Times in 2019. “But rather I admire him as the human being that I met, and the one that I married.”

Despite this, she also expressed remorse for the harm she may have caused during her trial.

“With all due respect, I address you today to express my true regret for any and all harm that I may have done, and I ask that you and all the citizens of this country forgive me,” she said prior to her sentencing, through an interpreter.

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The judge gave her a relatively lenient sentence, arguing that she was only one small piece in a much larger machine.

Her husband is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado.