[3] She gained initial fame as a child star, when as a seven-year-old in 1954, she was hired to play an orphan in one of the first major Puerto Rican television sitcom hits, "La Taverna India", where Riley acted alongside Ramón Rivero, "Diplo".
[2] Riley followed her return to Puerto Rico by beginning what would turn out to be a prolific theater acting career: she debuted on a play named "Panorama Desde el Puente" ("View From the Bridge") and followed her participation in that with appearances in "Un Tranvía Llamado Deseo" ("A Streetcar Named Desire"), "Sabor a Miel" ("Tastes Like Honey") and "El Efecto de los Rayos Gamma Sobre la Flor Maravilla" ("The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds").
[4] After returning to Puerto Rico following that stint in South America, Riley re-established herself in her home-country as a theater actress, participating in a recital at the "Ocho Puertas" nightclub, in which she sang songs written by her mom, Sylvia Rexach.
[2] Another time she played her mother Silvya Rexach was when she was given the opportunity to characterize her in a television mini-series named "Hasta el Fondo del Dolor" ("To The Bottom of the Suffering").
The settlement amount issue took long to resolve, and it wasn't until the 1990s that the parties involved reached an agreement as far as to how much Riley and her daughter were going to receive from what took place during Sylvia's birth.