‘365 Days’ Rerun: US Millionaire Kept Woman Captive To Make Her ‘Love Him Or Die’, Held

Cannabis tycoon Ramone Marcio Martinez allegedly carved the number '6' into her hand, for it to serve as a warning that she had these many months to love him back or get killed.

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New Delhi: In an almost replay of Netflix thriller 365 Days in real life, a millionaire medical cannabis businessman in the US has been accused of keeping a woman in captivity with a deadline to fall in love with him within six months or die, media reports said.   

The Salt Lake City police in Utah arrested Ramone Marcio Martinez, 39, last week on charges of abduction, assault and domestic violence, Dailymail reported.

Martinez had allegedly held the woman captive for weeks, beaten her and even carved the number '6' into her hand, for it to serve as a warning that she had these many months to love him back or get killed, the report said.

The police were informed after the woman managed to text a friend about her ordeal. Quoting the case affidavit, the report said she was “begging for help”, and that she was “scared for her life”. 

When the police went to Martinez's home, they found him armed. They searched the premises and found the woman in a poor shape. 

According to the Dailymail report, she had bruises around her eyes. Her ribs pained, making breathing difficult.

The police said he had threatened the woman that he would go to Mexico and rape her mother, and “chop up" her brother. 

Quoting public records, the report said Martinez is a self-proclaimed millionaire and his businesses include a limo service and a medical cannabis referral service, Truu Med, in Utah.

He has another house in Arizona and he allegedly planned to take the woman there, before the police cracked down on him and sent him behind the bars.

'365 Days' Rerun

The case would remind Netflix watchers of the 2020 Polish erotic drama, 365 Days, in which a woman from Warsaw was imprisoned by a Sicilian crime lord who gave her 365 days to fall in love with him. 

The film based on Blanka Lipińska’s first novel of a trilogy stars Michele Morrone and Anna-Maria Sieklucka in the lead roles. Though it has been one of the most watched shows on the OTT platform, the film received negative reviews too because of the portrayal of sexual violence. Many also found it glorifying the mafia.