  Since the release of the Hipparcos catalog in 1997, the distance to the
Pleiades open cluster has been heavily debated. The distance obtained from
Hipparcos and those by alternative methods differ by 10 to 15 %. As accurate
stellar distances are key to understanding stellar structure and evolution,
this dilemma puts the validity of stellar evolution models into question. Using
our model-independent method to determine parallaxes based on twin stars, we
report individual parallaxes of 15 FGK type stars in the Pleiades in
anticipation of the astrometric mission Gaia. These parallaxes give a mean
cluster parallax of $7.42\pm0.09~\mathrm{mas}$ corresponding to a mean cluster
distance of ${ 134.8\pm 1.7~\mathrm{pc}}$. This value agrees with the current
results obtained from stellar evolution models.
