Gabriela Chiquin is the internet's top guess for the Grand Theft Auto VI cover girl and the uncanny resemblance makes it difficult to deny.
Every Grand Theft Auto game has a cover girl, and, eventually, every cover girl becomes everyone's favorite mystery to solve for a time. Grand Theft Auto 6 is no different.
Within a weekend of Rockstar Games revealing the official GTA 6 cover art, fans had zeroed in on one name for the striking brunette woman prominently featured on it. Everyone's guess? Gabriela Chiquin, a Venezuelan DJ. All you have to do is take one look and it's hard not to see why fans believe they've found the GTA 6 cover girl.
So who is she? Gabriela Chiquin is a real and genuinely talented Venezuelan DJ, music producer, model, and influencer who goes by @chiquin__ on Instagram and X. She builds content around electronic music, DJ work, fitness, and a beach-heavy, party-ready aesthetic, the exact kind of vibe that matches perfectly with what Rockstar is trying to accomplish with Vice City and Leonida.
This is just part of the reason why many believe Gabriela is the GTA 6 cover girl. A huge factor is this photo of Chiquin in a green cropped athletic top with voluminous curly dark hair. It predates the cover reveal by roughly two years, which rules out the obvious explanation that she just cosplayed the art after the fact. The hair, facial features, makeup, and especially that green top align closely with the woman in the artwork.
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Just to be clear, Gabriela as the GTA 6 cover girl isn't confirmed yet. Rockstar has not confirmed anything and it almost certainly never will. The studio famously stays silent on character inspirations. The Grand Theft Auto V cover girl was a debate that raged on for a while and was part of a since-dismissed lawsuit even after the actress behind the likeness confirmed her identity. Don't expect Rockstar to break precedent anytime soon.
Kudos to Chiquin, though. She handled her instant fame with class. She hasn't directly confirmed her involvement, but she did pin the 2024 and updated her caption to say that fans think she looks like the GTA 6 cover girl, thanking the community for the love. She's also been retweeting posts linking her to the game and seems to be enjoying her fun, strange brush with the biggest game on the planet, but she is not overclaiming.
For anyone wondering why Rockstar would stay silent instead of confirming a fun bit of marketing, Rockstar has real legal reasons to avoid tying its cover art to a specific real person.
As we've already mentioned, the GTA V cover girl was quite controversial, but not for the reasons you'd think for a franchise so full of it. In 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan sued Rockstar claiming the game used her likeness. Rockstar ultimately won, but the lesson stuck. The studio builds composite characters, blends of many references rather than one identifiable individual, precisely so nobody can credibly claim it copied them.
So, unless otherwise confirmed, and despite a genuine resemblance, Chiquin may be only a partial influence on the GTA VI cover girl rather than a one-to-one model.
Besides, even if the resemblance is real, there is a decent chance Chiquin is not the inspiration at all. The curly, dark hair, green top, and tanned Miami poolside energy are a genuinely common aesthetic in South Florida and Latin party culture. Chiquin could just happen to be the first one people saw when the GTA 6 cover art went up. If true, Rockstar definitely understood the assignment, nailing the specific cultural look they were after.
On the off-chance that this is your first GTA rodeo, welcome, and don't expect to see the GTA 6 cover girl in-game come November 19. The ladies behind the Grand Theft Auto IV cover art and GTA V didn't show up in the single-player campaign at all. The GTA 6 cover girl is most likely just a purely promotional figure with no role in the actual game.
Whatever the truth, the whole saga shows how GTA 6's cover art does its job. It turned a single image into days of viral detective work and free publicity, much like the marketing rollout and pre-order push have kept the game dominating the conversation months before launch. Rockstar barely has to lift a finger. It drops an image, stays silent, and lets the internet do the promotion, which is exactly what happened here.
