
Maggie was born in Tequila, Mexico in 1895 on Cinco de Mayo. Her mother, the wife of the Mexican Irish Ambassador, was rumored to have left her husband for her lover and father of Maggie, the notorious revolutionary bandit, El General Pancho Villa. Under their watchful care she lived as a sheltered Niña. As she blossomed into womanhood with her mothers flaming Irish red hair and her ample Latin assets, the voluptuous beauty had no trouble attracting the attention of many an hombre, but none dared approach except one…
Rico “El Suave” Rita was a captain in Villa’s army. Dashing, handsome, adventurous, masculine and virile he was described by many as being MUY MACHO...women offered their virtue to him everywhere he went and he being the caballero, would never refuse their generosity. During a fiesta celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in 1913 he was introduced to the Irish/Latina beauty Maggie.
The moment their eyes met they knew it was love at first sight. With the blessing of El General Villa, Maggie & Rico were married that very same day. That night Maggie finally experienced the touch of a lover.
Sadly, the next morning Rico left his new bride to lead his men in the battle for the ancient Aztec pueblo of Xi-Xi Munchas where he was lured into a booby trap, captured and hung from his neck until dead.
Needless to say, Maggie was devastated. She couldn’t understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken from her, leaving her to vow that she would never again be with another until she was reunited with the spirit of her beloved Rico.
In her desperate attempts to overcome her grief Maggie visited many a psychic & medium seeking a way to contact her departed lover. During a séance she was told that the only way the spirit of her Rico could return was the way it had left. She was to find a man who had suffered the fate of her Rico at the end of a rope, but who lived to tell about it.
Tired of traveling and searching the world, Maggie decided to open a place in the village of New Orleans, where virile, macho men, lured by the hopes of meeting all the beautiful señoritas in attendance, would gather to eat, drink and be merry. Here Maggie spent the rest of her days unable to fulfill her destiny for amongst all these men full of life she was never to find her amor, for no man was ever able to prove that he too had been hung like her Rico!
Maggie Rita's is open Mon thru Friday 11am to 9pm, Sat & Sun 8am to 9pm.