Mexican TV host Inés Gómez Mont, famous for proposing to Tom Brady, was detained by ICE in Miami while wanted in a $160 million fraud scheme.
Federal immigration officers took the 43-year-old presenter into custody in Miami on Friday, ending years on the run from Mexican authorities, the New York Post reported.
Gómez Mont, known for work on TV Azteca and Televisa, is wanted in Mexico over an alleged $160 million fraud scheme tied to public contracts. She now sits in U.S. immigration custody and awaits any formal extradition process.
She was photographed being escorted by police in handcuffs. The arrest closes a long gap that began after arrest warrants were issued and the couple left Mexico in 2021.
Mexican investigators allege Gómez Mont and her husband, lawyer Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, took part in a network that used shell companies, false invoices, and contracts to pull money from Mexico’s Interior Ministry and launder it.
Reporting on the case has described Puga as the “King of the Invoice Mills.” Authorities portray the pair as central players in the alleged scheme, not bit players on the margins.
Gómez Mont has flatly denied the accusations for years. In a September 2021 Instagram post to millions of followers, she rejected claims that she pocketed public contract money or belonged to organized crime.
"Indeed, according to the press, the authorities accuse me of allegedly receiving money from two public contracts (which amount to 3 billion pesos) and of belonging to organized crime. Those facts are absolutely false."
She went further, saying officials had cast her in the same light as violent criminals without justification.
"That is, without any justification they put me on the same level as a drug dealer or terrorist. Seems like an injustice to me."
And she framed herself as a working host and mother, not a thief:
"To be clear, I’ve never stolen a weight. I haven’t received any money from those contracts, let alone I’ve never seen or had 3 billion pesos in my life. I’m a TV host and a full time mom. And under no concept do I belong to organized crime."
She also said she feared new cases would be stacked against her for speaking out, but pledged to keep fighting with her lawyers and to prove her innocence “with dignity.”
Puga’s path crossed ICE first. In September 2025, immigration officers detained him in Miami over immigration irregularities. He was later released on bond. His status since then has not been made clear in the reporting.
That earlier stop did not end the couple’s legal trouble. Gómez Mont remained wanted in Mexico. On Friday, ICE took her into custody in the same city where her husband had been held months before.
She is now in U.S. immigration detention while any extradition process to Mexico takes shape. The public record in the available reporting does not spell out a separate U.S. criminal charge beyond the immigration custody and the Mexican warrant case hanging over her.
American audiences may remember Gómez Mont for a different stage. At Super Bowl media day in 2008, she approached Tom Brady in a wedding dress and veil and proposed. Brady, already a champion quarterback and later a seven-time Super Bowl winner, turned her down.
The New England Patriots entered that game 18-0. They lost 17-14 to the New York Giants. The proposal bit lived on as sports-page color long after the final score faded.
That viral moment is a long way from handcuffs in Miami. The woman once chasing a photo-op with Brady is now the subject of a cross-border fraud case and federal immigration detention.
The timeline is straightforward. Arrest warrants hit in 2021. The couple left Mexico. Gómez Mont posted her denial that September. Puga’s Miami immigration detention came in September 2025, followed by release on bond. On Friday, ICE arrested Gómez Mont in Miami.
Nearly five years separated the Mexican warrants from her detention in the United States. In that span she kept a public profile as a host and mother while remaining wanted at home over the alleged contract scheme.
Investigators still describe a network built on shell firms and fake paperwork aimed at public money. She still calls the whole case false and unjust. A U.S. immigration hold now puts the next move, extradition or further legal fights, on a government clock instead of her own.
Fugitives who skip town after warrants do not get to write the ending. ICE’s Miami arrest put a long-running alleged fraud case back in front of a judge, where it belongs.
