Esmeralda Di Pietro

Evil-doer
Full Name	Esmeralda Ferrara Di Pietro
Alias	Esmi (by Jade)
Origin	Violetta
Occupation	Actress
Powers / Skills	Master Manipulation Seduction Acting Skills Enhanced Intelligence
Hobby	Plotting with Jade and Matias
Goals	Make Herman fall in love with her and then leave him heartbroken (succeeded)
Crimes	Infiltration Theft Conspiracy Treachery
Type of Villain	Manipulative Con Artist

“

If you keep harrassing my daughter or me, I'm telling everything to Herman

„

~Esmeralda threatening Jade and Matias

Esmeralda Ferrara Di Pietro is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Gregorio Casal) in Season 2 in Disney Channel's Original Latin-American series Violetta. She is an actress hired by Jade & Matias LaFontaine to seduce Herman and leave him afterward.

She was portrayed by Carla Pandolfi.

Biography

Esmeralda Di Pietro was hired by Jade and Matias to help steal the money of famous architect Herman Castillo. She first meets Herman at a cafe` and learns that he is a widower with a teenage daughter named Violetta.

She pretends to be a businesswoman and gets Herman to hire her as a secretary for his office. Herman invites her over where she meets the entire family and showers them with her "kindness" and maintains in contact with Jade and Matias to tell them how things are going with Herman.

However, she gets annoyed when Jade keeps interfering with the plan out of jealousy due to her lingering feelings for Herman and considers quitting until Matias convinces her to stay. Violetta is very supportive of her father's relationship with Esmeralda in contrast to her disdain back when her father was getting married to Jade.

Matias creates a cybernetic worm called Tootie that can transfer Herman's money to his account. With that, Herman gets bankrupt and is forcibly unemployed putting him under house arrest (mirroring Matias's own house arrest in the first season).

When the family is being evicted due to the money loss, Esmeralda saves the day by paying for Herman's bail and in return accepts Herman's offer to move in with him.

Her daughter Ambar stays over while her father is away on a business trip and starts blackmailing people to do her bidding by recording them out of context with a tablet that Esmeralda unintentionally bought for her.

Ambar eventually realizes the error of her ways and deletes the videos just as she taken back by her father. Halfway throughout the season, Herman proposes to Esmeralda and she accepts with the intention of leaving him on their wedding day. During the wedding, Esmeralda's true colors are revealed and she leaves Herman at the altar never to be seen again.

Esmeralda obviously doesn't appear in the third season due to her being on the run from the police, but she was mentioned by Priscila Ferró to Herman when she reminded him about his two failed relationships with both her and Jade LaFontaine. Still, it is never confirmed whether she was arrested or not.

Relationships

Family

• Ezequiel - Ex-Husband
• Ambar - Daughter

Enemies

• Jade & Matias LaFontaine - Former Employers turned Enemies
• Germán Castillo - Former Fiancée turned Enemy, would-be husband
• Violetta Castillo - Temporary Friend turned Enemy, would-be stepdaughter
• Angie Carrará - Love Rival
• Inspector Parodi