| “ | Don't offer an Argentinian cheap therapy, baby | ” |
| — Isadora Artiñán, in "Please, Tell the Truth" | ||
Isadora Artiñán Goldstein is a character on the Netflix series Elite, serving as a main character of its second overall story arc and one of the two main protagonists (alongside with Iván) of its third overall story arc. She is portrayed by Valentina Zenere.
Biography[]
Isadora, an Argentinian socialite and DJ, was raised in a wealthy family but was neglected as a child while her jet-setting parents lived the high life. Because she was left to her own devices, she discovered the nightclub scene and landed a job as a DJ, giving her the moniker "Empress of Ibiza". It was also about this time that she was first introduced to substances as tachas, as she mentions in "Please, Tell the Truth."
Throughout the Series[]
Season 5[]
Isadora is introduced into the series as the kind of women who is impassive and bossy who will go to Machiavellian measures to get what she wants. When Isadora and Phillipe are forced into a class assignment together, they suddenly start to gain feelings for one another. However, their chances of having a relationship is washed away when Cayetana threatens her to avoid him as she and Phillipe were trying to get back together, but it goes down the drain when he couldn't keep up with the harsh rules that she placed on him, effectively ending their relationship and friendship.
Once Phillipe is single, Isadora decides to spend more time with him, but finds him boring as he continues to be sober, and so to make him interesting, she spikes every drink he gets, whether from a party or a restaurant. However, when he catches on to what she is doing, he finds her to be a distraction and not a good influence on her life, and gives her a piece of his mind about how he truly feels about her, which hurts Isadora deeply.
Feeling angry and rejected, Isadora organizes an impromptu trip to Ibiza with Iván and three other junior classmates: Javier, Álex and Hugo. While there, the four teens attend a music festival that she is DJ'ing at, and partake in drugs and alcohol that are being served there. The rest of the night is hazy for them as they realize that the drugs they took caused a serious blackout, and Isadora finds herself in a bloody bed sheet, indicating that she was raped, but she doesn't know who by as she passed out. However, it's revealed that the three boys she invited were the culprits behind her rape.
Season 6[]
This season finds her dealing with the aftermath with the rape as Phillipe left Spain to resume his duties in France. Instead of living in her five-star hotel, she now lives in a giant house/nightclub named Isadora's House that her parents bought as a gift to distract her from the trial. It's also where she hired Dídac and Bilal who work at the nightclub.
Her mother, Roberta, returns home to visit Isadora for her lawsuit about the rape, which is supposed to happen a few days later. During a gig, the night of her mother's visit, Isadora experiences a panic attack and flees into the bathroom after recently discontinuing her antidepressants. Roberta follows her daughter into the bathroom. While Isadora is hoping for support and comfort by her mother, Roberta gives her an oxycodone pill by tricking her into thinking it is an anti-anxiety one. The morning after the gig, her mother leaves, informing her daughter on the phone that there will be no trial, as the lawyers found no evidence. Isadora asks about the video the boys had taken, but her mother just puts her off, letting through that she does not believe her daughter about what has really happened that night. Leading to another panic attack for Isadora, which makes her turn to drugs once more.
One night while working, Isadora flirts with Dídac. He turns her down, and doubts Isadora's claim that she was raped. In response for feel rejected, Isadora calls her father to get Dídac fired.
Later, one of Isadora's rapists tell Dídac about the rape, and he learns that Isadora was telling the truth. The two end up becoming friends, and Dídac is rehired.
However, when her jet setting mother, Roberta blows into town, she finds out that Dídac's older brother, Pau, is someone who has deep connections into the local gangs and mob.
Season 7[]
Still reeling from the shooting, Isadora begins to have second thoughts about her feelings with Dídac. She soon decides that she likes him, but they can't have sex as she is still trying to heal from her rape. Later in the season, Isadora's father blows into town as it's the first time she has seen in him in a year. She soon begins making up for lost time with him, and gets an opportunity to expand "Isadora's House", but finds out that her expansion will affect the living of Omar, Joel, and Dalmar. She quickly pulls out of the project, letting them be able to keep their apartment. She soon begins to not trust Dídac as she finds out he's been secretly working with a detective that has been building an investigation off her dad for years. She soon begins to believe the detective, and starts to work with him on taking her father down once and for all, and tries to get him to confess to his crimes, but learns that Rocío's mom is involved in one of his crimes. She hatches a plan to get them into the same room to confess, but as her father gets wind of her plan, he sets up for Rocío's mom to get killed. She soon confesses to her dad that she has been wearing a wire, which helps him get arrested. She is last seen in the school hallways hugging Rocío, while also shaking her head to Dídac.
Season 8[]
Physical Appearance[]
Isadora is a beautiful young woman with blue eyes, tanned skin and wavy platinum blonde hair. She has a slim body and usually wears bright-colored expensive clothes and jewelry, Isadora has the trope of being a "party girl" in her clothing side, which can be describe that her preferred style is mostly "Maximalist" or "New Money" fashion.
Personality[]
Isadora is the impassive, bossy new girl who will go Machiavellian measures to get what she wants. This is exemplified when Isadora spiked Phillipe's drink with drugs in order to sabotage the redemption arc Cayetana had set out for him. Isadora uses her status as a socialite to enforce relationships with her peers. She cares a lot about her self-image and promoting her 'party girl' brand. In addition, her love for partying leads her to becoming close friends with Patrick as they both share common interests. Isadora struggles with drug addiction, and often goes overboard with her usage, causing her to overdose on two separate occassions. Isadora likes to rile others up by either offering them drugs or teasing them, though it's revealed that her actions aren't based off malicious intent. Rather, Isadora simply believes herself to be helping them 'let loose'.
Isadora can be perceived as an arrogant, narcissistic, self-centered and spoiled girl who loves being in the spotlight, she also is quite mean, as she said to Omar that he's just a nobody, also kind of nosy as she gives to Cayetana unwanted advices about how to deal with Phillipe after he's bullyied by other students. But, deep down, this is merely a front as a way to avoid her unresolved feelings and insecurities for having been neglected by her parents.
However, she gradually starts to lose her self-centered attitude and becomes more sensitive and supportive of those she cares about. She goes through a change after she's raped, Isadora becomes more distrustful, specially with men, with Iván being the sole exception, with whom she becomes best friends and have a close bond. Iván brings out her best and most caring side. She feels terrible after believing what Javier said about him, that he forced them to rape her and later realizing it was a lie, sincerely apologizing with him and swearing she'll never leave him ever again. She also helps Omar, Joel and Dalmar to keep their livings despite that would affect her business, demonstrating a more empathic side.
She grows to despise her parents for abandoning her, and being away for many time, which is fueled when they initially drop the charges for being raped. Isadora also has a darker side and becomes vindictive, chemically castrating Hugho to prevent him from raping another girl.
Isadora is fond of horses, and outside being a dj and parties it's what she enjoys most. This comes from having grown up surrounded by them in Ibiza, she even had a personal horse named Amazona which she and her mom adopted when she was a little girl being like a mother for that horse. For this reason she is seen devastated when Amazona died being poisoned.
Relationships[]
Isadora and Phillipe[]
Isadora's seduction of Phillipe was not only because she found him attractive; she was clearly seduced by his royal status, and knew that dating him would place her in the public eye and even allow further social mobility, potentially royalty. However, when Phillipe learned about it, he soon began avoiding her. After her rape, Phillipe began hanging out with her again, and started to fall in love with her. However, their relationship didn't last though as Phillipe left Madrid to return back to France to continue his principality after graduating from Las Encinas, while Isadora had one more year of high school left.
Isadora and Dídac[]
Didac and Isadora meet in season 6 and don't get along at first. She accuses Didac's friends of raping her while he accuses her of being a liar. Over time, Didac discovers that Isadora was telling the truth and sets out to help her obtain justice.
By season 7, Didac and Isadora are already an established couple. However, their relationship begins to have problems when their families compete in their businesses. While Isadora is willing to do whatever is necessary for the good of her family, Didac collaborates with a police officer named Luis to obtain evidence that implicates both families in fraudulent businesses so that they are not an impediment for him to be with Isadora. This leads Didac to cheat on Isadora to obtain documents that implicate the girl's father in shady dealings. However, she finds out and ends her relationship with him.
At the end of the season, Didac tries to approach Isadora again but she rejects him. In season 8 it is said that Didac left Las Encinas
Isadora and Luis[]
The relationship between Isadora and Luis is completely one-sided. Luis takes advantage of his police work to harass and blackmail Isadora. His modus operandi is based on causing problems in his business and then offering a solution in exchange for sexual favors.
Finally, Isadora makes the decision to murder Luis but he discovers her and drugs her. His plan is based on having sexual relations with her and then murdering her by making it seem like she had an overdose. However, Luis is detained by the police at that precise moment and Isadora takes advantage of the situation to inject him with poison without anyone noticing. While the police take Luis into custody, he collapses and dies. During his agony, Isadora can be seen looking at him with pride.
Trivia[]
- She is the second main character to be abused, the first being Cayetana.
- In both situations, Phillipe was present, but the difference is that Phillipe was the one who abused Cayetana, while he tried to stop Isadora's abuse.
- She is the fifth character to have a drug problem, after Valerio, Guzmán, Carla and Patrick.
- She is the fifth character to be born internationally as she wasn't from Spain, since she was born in Argentina. The first character is Lu, who was born in Mexico, second is Valerio who was born in Chile, the third is Phillipe, who was born in France and the fourth is Iván, who was born in Brazil.
- She is the third female main character to commit murder, preceded by Lu in Season 3 and Carmen in Season 7.
- She is one of the Las Encinas Queen Bees. The others include Carla Rosón Caleruega, Lu Montesinos Hendrich, Ari Blanco Commerford, and Chloe Ybarra Silva.
- They all have high ranking status of influence over the students, and connections to back it up. They are all seen as sex symbols as well.
- She is the fourth character living in the country by themselves. The first two being Omar and Samuel, third is Phillipe.
Appearances[]
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Season 6[] |
Season 7[] |
Season 8[] |
Gallery[]
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See also[]
| Main Characters |
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Nadia • Omar • Isadora • Iván • Sara • Nico • Sonia • Chloe • Eric • Joel • Dalmar • Luis • Emilia • Héctor |
| Past Main Characters |
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Marina • Christian • Nano • Yeray • Polo • Lu • Valerio • Malick • Carla • Guzmán • Ander • Armando • Samuel • Rebeka • Cayetana • Phillipe • Cruz • Benjamín • Bilal • Hugo • Álex • Javier • Patrick • Ari • Mencía • Jessica • Raúl • Rocío • Dídac |
| Recurring Characters |
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Azucena • Inspectora • Ventura • Laura • Teo • Beatriz • Yusef • Imán • Pilar • Begoña • Andrea • Antonio • Victoria • Sandra • Martín • Estefanía • Sebastián Abaga • Greta • Jess • Felipe • Virginia • Roberta • María • Alfonso • Pau |
| Minor Characters |
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Alexis • Pablo (student) • Felipe Montesinos • Fer • Nasser • Fatima • Ander's doctor • Pablo (waiter) • Sadelagu • Elodie |