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UPDATE July 5th, 2020: One of our reporters received an email with information to update this page. V.L. and Gilbert Fuentez are no longer in a romantic relationship as of April 2020. They talk from time to time, but V.L. has chosen to no longer be romantically involved with him, since he continues to remain in a relationship with R.R. It is unclear whether or not V.L. would resume a romantic relationship with Gilbert Fuentez if R.R. was no longer in the picture. However, with both current and past police involvement in Gilbert Fuentez’ life, and V.L.’s family opinion of Gilbert Fuentez, resuming their relationship is unlikely; instead he can move on to someone new with whom he has no past baggage and that will accept his open relationship with R.R. We thank the sender for their email update.
FIRST RELEASE:
V.L. is Gilbert Fuentez’ long time girlfriend of 9 years beginning in September 2010, spanning multiple cities across TX and most recently in Austin. It was because of V.L. that he chose to move to Austin suddenly in July 2019 after he was let go from Everman ISD for the drugs. She is a beautiful woman and good person. She’s fierce, kind and dedicated to her family; it’s clear why he fell for her. She doesn’t seem as if she’s one of the women that will do drugs with him or buy him drugs, like some of the others, because she hates drugs. She has a phenomenal job and strives to do good and help others as often as she can. She has been in Austin a few years and Gilbert Fuentez would visit her frequently while he lived in Ft Worth and he gave her a promise ring to marry her. Most often the excuse was given to his other women that he was going to visit “Courtney”, his licensed professional counselor in Austin, but he was usually going to see V.L. instead.
She and Gilbert live only 5 minutes away from each other in Austin and shop, go to church and work out at the same places.
When Gilbert Fuentez was placed on administrative leave with Austin ISD in August 2019 after a few weeks working there, pending an investigation into information about what happened at Everman ISD, he convinced V.L. to submit a statement to the head coach at the high school where he was working on his behalf. He persuaded her to say that [the drugs were all behind him and he was looking forward to getting back to work at Austin ISD]. She deeply regrets giving in to the pressure to do this, as she was not aware of the truth that had occurred in Everman ISD, or the other women, or that he was still using drugs and, when she discovered the truth, she felt humiliated.
During the time he was at the workman’s comp clinic on 4-16-2019, he was simultaneously texting V.L., R.R. and the co-worker to rally support for him and assist him in varying ways while he was panicking at being forced to take a drug test and employing each woman to take some action on his behalf to support him. Each woman came to his aid in different ways while he was there because he made each one feel as if they were all he had in this world and was alone and needed them more than ever to come to bat for him and help him out.
Because of this manipulation, all 3 women acted on his behalf to assist him, meanwhile not knowing any of the other women were also assisting him behind the scenes. V.L. is now aware of all of his relationships except T.W. and J.D. in Waco.
TEA investigators are aware of ALL statements submitted by everyone on Gilbert’s behalf, even if not all women are aware of each other’s roles. A recurring theme seems to occur with Gilbert Fuentez pressuring women to produce supporting statements on his behalf when he finds himself in some kind of trouble, even if the statements make the situation worse for him and they contradict each other, as those statements have in the last couple of months.
The pictures you see above are from September 2019 and were sent to the co-worker from V.L. to prove they were still actively engaged in a relationship. Shortly after moving to Austin, Gilbert Fuentez shaved his beard off and shortly after that was when this picture was taken.
V.L. has plenty of other texts, photos and proof of their relationship to document everything.
She and the co-worker have exchanged 100s of text messages and spent many many hours on the phone. They shared alot of information and proof that each other needed to know to finally put the puzzle pieces together. V.L. learned the truth about R.R. and the assault on R.R., about L.R. and the co-worker…. and many other truths that Gilbert Fuentez had lied to her about.
Such as…..he lied and told her that R.R. was a teacher he was working with (misleading V.L. about the co-worker) and that he barely knew R.R. and that R.R. just happened to be the teacher picked to work with the softball students on away games with Gilbert Fuentez on 2-16-2019 and that R.R. was messing around with other coaches but not him—none of this is true—and was meant to deflect suspicion off any woman Gilbert Fuentez was with so that V.L. would not suspicion anything.
Gilbert Fuentez and V.L. had taken vacations together, such as Puerto Rico, and has many fond memories of feeling special to him during these vacations.
She confided that she was finally excited to have a baby with him after all these years and the truth of everything was horrible timing.
She also stated that, when he moved to Austin full time to be with her, that something was different about him and she had been with him for 9 years and knew when something was wrong but he wouldn’t tell her anything.
He even demanded she help him find an apartment but she said she was unavailable to do it that quick and so he had R.R. help him find an apartment instead, even though R.R. who has no idea who V.L. is.
When he was fired from Austin ISD, he asked her if it would be ok to move in to her home that she owns since he lost his job and needed financial support. When V.L. asked if he would help pay some of the bills while living with her, Gilbert stated that he didn’t think he had to because she was already paying the bills. V.L. felt deeply disrespected that he would try to come and live off her and not pay any bills and use her for her money.
She even had trouble in the past getting Gilbert to hand over a few dollars for ingredients for the enchiladas he was always begging her to make.
His pattern with V.L. was much the same as experienced by the co-worker and R.R…….treating these women merely as financial security safety nets through the use of emotional manipulation and false pretenses of being in a relationship, which include “I love yous”, “I miss yous”, “Please talk to mes”, “I need yous”, “Dont leave mes” and “Im done with all thats” to invoke pity, sympathy, need, nurturing instinct and devotion in these women and none of it is true on his end.
V.L. had years of information to share, including intimate knowledge of many of his friends across the state. Information such as alot of his Master’s degree work was done by V.L. instead and he was again taking more classes at Austin Community College, even thought he has 2 Master’s degrees, and that taking classes at a community college doesn’t make sense, that he was taking a lab and a couple other classes and he was getting financial aid and that helped with his bills.
She recounted how Gilbert hurtfully told her how he preferred her to dress, including wearing heels, and that he had said many painful things to her through the years, including criticisms of her body image. V.L. said he had a temper and it could flare up at times and would cuss her out also, and this is supported by experiences of at least 2 of the other women.
That shortly after he moved back to Austin to be with her, they were out drinking in a pub and he tried to rile her up to get her to fight another woman who he claimed was looking at him, possibly in an attempt to make her jealous and territorial over him, and she said it did not work.
She stated that Gilbert had spent alot of time with her family and friends, both over the years and after he moved down to Austin to be with her in July 2019….and they liked him, at least until the truth came out.
He spent nights at her house in Austin, both before he moved there and after he moved there, where her mother lives also.
On 8-31-2019, he spent the night again and, the next day, he got up and left and drove back to Ft Worth to spend Labor Day 2019 weekend with R.R. It was shortly after this that V.L. and the co-worker would begin communication.
She and the co-worker discussed about when Gilbert had to finally reveal to V.L. in October 2017 and tell her about his daughter A.N. She said he was so dramatic about telling her “don’t flip out but…..” and he stated that his surprise daughter “all occurred before us” to reassure her the child hadn’t been born during their 7 year relationship (at that point in time), even though they argued about this merely because of the way V.L. asked how old the child was, and Gilbert told her that he knew “another kid would come out eventually”. He told her that A.N.’s mother had gotten a court order to make him submit to a paternity test. However, he refused for several weeks and V.L. encouraged him multiple times to just take the test and, if A.N. wasn’t his, as he was adamantly claiming, then he should just get it over with…..and it came back positive in December 2017. (Read more about the facts, timeline and documents of A.N. and S.N. here https://teainvestigation.com/daughter/ )
A few months later, he again had to reveal to her more shocking news…….Gilbert was being sued in January 2018 for 16+ years of back child support. She and the co-worker discussed how he immediately took down all his social media to prevent A.N.’s mother from seeing his new vehicle or any other information she could use in court, how the daughter looks just like his son, A.H., that he lost all parental rights to in 2016, and they discussed that he still felt no responsibility to A.N. Much the same conversation occurred between Gilbert Fuentez and the co-worker in November 2018, in April 2019 and again in June 2019. His ex-wife is not the mother of either child despite their marriage during the same time both children were born to these two other women (Read more about this situation with ex-wife V.U., G.H. and A.H. here https://teainvestigation.com/marriage/
She and the co-worker discussed Gilbert’s multiple mental health diagnoses as well and put more pieces of the puzzle together. It felt to both of them as if the other one had a unique position in being subjected to a relationship with Gilbert and the unique damage that does to a woman that can only be understood by another woman who’s been through the same thing with Gilbert. Unlike R.R., V.L. was relieved to have her prayers answered for the truth and proof after 9 years of lies, deception and manipulation by him.
V.L. encouraged the co-worker to do the right thing and protect her child regarding him threatening the co-worker’s daughter’s life.
Also, they discussed another incident of him trying to retaliate against the co-worker by forwarding emails on 9-1-2019 and 9-2-2019 to the Ft Worth police department that the co-worker had sent to him in prior weeks, while he was in Ft Worth during Labor Day weekend with R.R., to try to file a bogus complaint against the co-worker. They discussed how the Ft Worth police department contacted Arlington police and that Arlington police contacted the co-worker about those emails. They discussed that one particular email that Ft Worth police had questions about for the co-worker was the one that concerned the assault on R.R.
They discussed how Ft Worth police department had renewed their domestic violence investigation with the audio recording confessions from both R.R. and Gilbert about the assault and, in that same email, the Ft Worth police asked about the comment the co-worker made about how she was going do something about the Everman ISD superintendent’s actions. (Later, the co-worker would be exonerated but Gilbert has a documented history of calling police on people in retaliation or to use the police as a form of bogus harassment)
When Gilbert found out that V.L. and the co-worker had begun communicating, he called the Austin Police Department on 9-9-2019 to file a harassment claim against the co-worker, merely because these two women were communicating. He said he was going to list V.L. as a “witness” and told her “he was sorry” to have to do that. However, V.L. was not going to support such nonsense and said so many times that she did not want to speak to the police and she and the co-worker discussed having done nothing wrong.
He was furious with V.L. that “she was interfering with an investigation” and wouldn’t help him. V.L. is a grown woman who could talk to whomever she wanted. When the police showed up to his apartment, he refused to answer the door or file the report because he knew he did not have V.L.’s complicity a SECOND TIME in filing a bogus supporting statement, which stemmed from simply because he did not want them speaking to each other.
Instead, he relentlessly called V.L. and the co-worker many many times over those few days, both from his number and from a blocked number, to pressure and prevent them from continuing to talk to each other but they continued to communicate anyway.
She had wondered for years all the many lies, deceptions, manipulation and pieces of stories that didn’t add up. Finally, she was able to piece together much of the picture after at least January 2018.
She received many pieces of evidence that she asked to have sent to her friend’s phone.
V.L. expressed that she wanted to be at his apartment when R.R. showed up so she could have a face to face confrontation with both of them about her being his girlfriend and “who is this R.R. woman you’re with?”, but the co-worker told her that wouldn’t be a good idea because he’s just going to make one of them leave so he can lie and manipulate them behind their backs while separated, so they wouldn’t know the other’s truth, as is his documented pattern.
And that V.L. would never get the satisfaction of confronting him for cheating on her because he would just manipulate or lie to her; most likely by lying to R.R. that V.L. was an impersonator or some old fling who’s a lying psycho and, to V.L. that R.R. was just a friend or family member…..and these kinds of lies cannot be told face to face with all people present. And that, while V.L. wouldn’t buy the lies, R.R. would because its what she wants to hear.
In grappling with understanding how he plays both sides against each other behind their backs to confuse a situation and use it to his advantage…..V.L. and the co-worker exchanged screenshots in September 2019 sent to the co-worker from R.R. on May 8th, 2019 where he told R.R. much the same “I love you! Please continue to talk to me!” lines that V.L. had received as well.
These May 8th, 2019 screenshots occurred after R.R. learned about the co-worker’s and Gilbert Fuentez’ relationship and the two women exchanged phone numbers.
He was furious that the R.R. and the co-worker were talking and communicating. Gilbert manipulated and lied to each woman behind the other’s back so they wouldn’t speak to each other again and find out the truth for themselves. (It is his pattern to dominate and control the entire situation, mostly through lies, and he couldn’t have any of the 3 women speaking with each other on either side in either situation.)
So, R.R. screenshotted Gilbert Fuentez’ attempt to do this to the co-worker behind her back and sent it to the co-worker on May 8th, 2019 and, when the co-worker confronted Gilbert Fuentez about it, he lied to the co-worker and then went and lied to R.R. again. (This was the only time that R.R. ever took any rational action when it came to Gilbert cheating on her)
On the previous day, May 7th, 2019, an audio recording at his apartment between him and the co-worker shockingly reveals his true character in pulling these stunts. The recording captures the co-worker confronting him for pulling this kind of behind-the-scenes lying and manipulation on R.R. The co-worker TAKES UP for R.R., and said she did the right thing by R.R. in telling her the truth and giving her proof, because Gilbert Fuentez was just going to manipulate and lie to R.R., and the co-worker was looking out for R.R.’s best interests…..and his response multiple times during this argument was heartless each time when being confronted about him manipulating and lying to R.R. He told the co-worker multiple times calmly and cruelly “it wasn’t her business if he lied to and manipulated R.R.” and that he “was going to break up with R.R. soon anyway”.
So, it was a healing revelation for V.L. to finally understand all this for herself when she realized….it WASN’T something wrong with her….as Gilbert had made her believe all these years.
Before receiving the evidence, she had no idea who R.R. or L.R. was. T.W. was unknown to both women at that time and would only be discovered in October 2019. By learning about R.R., L.R. and the co-worker, it was enough for her to finally, once and for all, consider ending the relationship for good with Gilbert Fuentez….so she tried.
However, she decided to continue on with him afterwards. Maybe to try to confront him and get more of the truth out of him or maybe to try to salvage the relationship. It seemed as if his demands on her to pay the bills for him and fund him was the main motivation why he did not want to lose the relationship with her. He was always able to manipulate and beg her with promises of love and also criticisms of her refusal to believe his lies or help him in any capacity.
It is unclear if the relationship has ended or if there is a baby on the way, which would be due sometime in May 2020 or not. If any of this information changes, this page will be updated.
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