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Monalisa Perez (born: ), better known online as La MonaLisa, is a American YouTuber who makes videos containing makeup, fashion and vlogs. She had once done outside vlogs together containing challenges, pranks, and stunts before the controversial incident of the life-risking stunt.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/us/shooting-youtube-stunt-minnesota.html She currently uploads on a new YouTube channel, herbossydiaries.
==Personal life==
Monalisa lives in Minnesota. She met her first boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III (January 27, 1995 - June 26, 2017 [aged 22]) in 2012. The couple had their first child, Aaliyah Virginia Ruiz, in 2014. While imprisoned, Monalisa gave birth to her second child, Pedro Ruiz IV, in 2017.https://www.fredriksonfh.com/obituary/pedro-ruiz-iii In 2018, following her release from prison, Monalisa met Tyler Weatherby, and both started a clothing brand company called Wake.https://www.inforum.com/business/how-monalisa-perez-found-peace-after-a-youtube-stunt-turned-deadly-in-minnesota On March 1, 2024, MonaLisa gave birth to her third child, Seven Rose. It was her first child with Tyler.https://www.instagram.com/p/C4nqVrXOH7c/ On September 9, Tyler was reported missing since around last week, where he went for a walk at around 7:45 am and left his phone and wallet back home.https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/city-wide-efforts-to-find-missing-sioux-falls-man/https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/missing-sf-mans-business-made-keloland-news-in-2021/
==Controversy==
===YouTube Stunt Controversy===
On June 26, 2017, Pedro (boyfriend of MonaLisa) wanted to make a viral video by doing a life-threatening stunt. What Pedro would do, is hold a hardcover book in front of his chest. And his girlfriend, Monalisa, would shoot the book with a 50. Caliber Desert Eagle Hand Gun. The plan of the stunt was for the bullet to be stopped by the book to prevent Pedro from getting hit. Monalisa was essentially 1 foot away from Pedro as they attempted. As the gun fires, the bullet goes through the book and hits Pedro's chest. Monalisa immediately calls 911 and explains the incident. Pedro had died on the way to the hospital. Their 3-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, had also witnessed what happened, and Monalisa was pregnant with her 2nd kid.https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/03/15/woman-jailed-fatally-shooting-boyfriend-botched-youtube-stunt/427423002/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816
====Before The Stunt====
Pedro had once explained in 'The Whisper Challenge' video about the stunt and talks about possible death due to the stunt. Many people in the comments had explained about it and said it was fearful and irony. One year after the incident, the video of the stunt was shared, other than the stunt taking action. They had shared how big the bullet was, which was the same length as a clock on a watch. Monalisa had also claimed that they tested the stunt once with nobody behind it, saying that it worked, the book stopped the bullet. However, Monalisa was using a harder book and was farther away than how the stunt actually went down.https://www.wdsu.com/article/videos-show-moments-before-pregnant-woman-shot-boyfriend-in-deadly-youtube-stunt/21930233
====Aftermath====
The incident had quickly spread on YouTube, and multiple YouTubers generally had talked about the situation. Monalisa's YouTube channel was shared by multiple media and had quickly garnered amassed amount of dislikes and subscribers, which, subscriber wise, had never declined. Monalisa was immediately arrested. Many people blamed both Pedro and Monalisa because Pedro made the idea, and Monalisa did not stop Pedro from doing the life-threatening stunt, which ultimately led to her sentencing.
====Sentence====
Monalisa was awaiting trial 6 months after the incident. On December 19, 2017, she was pleaded guilty for second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 6 months in prison. She has also been sentenced to 10 years of probation and is prohibited from holding any firearms for the rest of her life.https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/glam-post-prison-life-pregnant-31937662
===Return===
On July 31, 2018, Monalisa had deleted her YouTube videos she had published before the incident. She made a video titled 'Something to say...' and she had explained that she is not allowed to talk about the incident, and said her video is unscripted. She had explained her experience the past year on YouTube and there were downs, and later on, ups.https://web.archive.org/web/20190105214530/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGGElNrAKM She uploaded videos 2 - 3 times a week, mainly related to beauty, make-up, and vlogs. Her videos get a 50% like to dislike ratio or more dislikes but do get a lot of supportive comments and telling her not to be negative or think about what had happened.
During late 2019, MonaLisa's channel was hacked and spammed with over 9000 videos, 2 days later, YouTube terminated her channel. Shortly after the channel was terminated. In January 2020, her account would be restored. On April 27, 2021, her account would be terminated again.https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCYqSxhPHNYCLnt6pgUq-pJA/monthly
On July 29, 2021, Monalisa created a new YouTube channel, herbossydiaries.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lqhC9LnbKI
==Gallery==
PedroRuiz.jpg|Pedro Ruiz
LaMonalisa1.png|Monalisa and Pedro in 'The Whisper Challenge'
MonalisaPerez.jpg|Monalisa's Twitter Icon
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MonalisaPerez2.png|Monalisa's Mugshot
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LaMonalisa3.jpg|Monalisa and her daughter Aaliyah.
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PedroRuiz1.jpg|Pedro moments before the stunt
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LaMonalisa6.png|Pedro and MonaLisa moments before the stunt
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==References==
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