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The Non-Marriage of Cantinflas: Mario Moreno, the revered Mexican film star and comic known as Cantinflas, has denied that an American woman awarded $26 million in a divorce case against him was ever his wife. “It’s simple blackmail,” Moreno, 79, told the government news agency Notimex when asked about the ruling against him by a state district judgein Houston Tuesday. “It’s all a lie and that’s my defense.” Joyce Jett-Moreno claimed she was the actor’s wife for 22 years. But Moreno insisted that he never remarried after the death of his first wife.