Aylín Mujica received the worst news of her life while she was on a set in Colombia. El Nuevo Día reported the death of her eldest son, Mauro Menéndez, who was her primogénito and lived in Miami.
Menéndez worked as a DJ and music producer, and the report places his death at the center of a family tragedy unfolding while Mujica was still working on Top Chef VIP. That detail is what makes the story land now: she was not at home, not in a private moment, but filming a television project when she learned her firstborn had died.
Mujica’s career gives the loss an added public weight. She studied folk dance, classical ballet and dramatic arts in Cuba from age 8, moved to México in 1992 and broke through in the 1995 telenovela La dueña. She later worked with TV Azteca in Yacaranday, Señora, Háblame de amor and Agua y aceite, hosted Tempranito, expanded to Telemundo in the United States, and returned to open television with Como tú no hay dos in 2020 and Soy famoso, ¡sácame de aquí! in 2022. She also received a star on the Paseo de las Luminarias in Ciudad de México and recently confirmed a return to TelevisaUnivision with a new cooking project.
The report leaves one key point unsettled. A journalist identified the cause as an infarto, but no confirmed medical report is cited, and the age detail does not sit neatly either: Menéndez is identified as 31 in one version, while another places him at 30 and says he was born in the mid-1990s. Those are the kinds of details that matter in a death report, and they are still not fully pinned down.
For now, the confirmed fact is the hardest one: Aylín Mujica lost her eldest son while working abroad, and the public record still does not close the gap on exactly how or when he died. What comes next is the evidence that can answer that question.
