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Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzmán bizarrely claimed before a Mexico judge that he is not the son of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.
The shocking revelation was made during a video conference hearing Tuesday to block the 32-year-old's extradition to the United States.
'I am not the person they think, who the United States claims,' Ovidio Guzmán told judge Rogelio Díaz during the five-hour session at the Altiplano, the maximum-security prison where he is incarcerated and the same one El Chapo escaped from through a tunnel in 2015.
Alberto Díaz, who heads Ovidio Guzmán's team of eight lawyers, asked for three additional days to present their argument to support the allegation that he is not El Chapo's son and to argue that the extradition request does not meet the guidelines of the treaty between the United States and Mexico.
Ovidio Guzmán would have to undergo a DNA test to uphold the claim.
During a 2016 interview with renown Mexican criminologist Mónica Ramírez Cano, El Chapo confessed to having been the father of 23 children.
He married four times, first in 1977 to Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández, with whom he had four children, including César, Iván Archivaldo, Jesús Alfredo and Alejandrina Giselle. He would then tie the knot with bank clerk, Estela Peña, but did not have any children with her.
El Chapo's third marriage came in the mid-1980s when he married Griselda López Pérez, the mother of Édgar, Joaquín Jr., Ovidio and Griselda Guadalupe.
His fourth and last marriage came in 2007 when he exchanged wedding vows former beauty queen Emma Coronel, who in August 2011 gave birth to the couple's twin daughters, Maria Joaquina and Emali Guadalupe.
Ovidio Guzmán appeared before a judge at a hearing to block his extradition to the United States and made the shocking revelation that he is not the son of notorious jailed drug trafficker, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is escorted by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in New York on January 19 following his extradition from Mexico
Ovidio some favorable news Wednesday when district court judge Everardo Maya
