{"id":304519,"date":"2025-10-15T05:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304519\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:11:16","slug":"mitt-romneys-brother-tried-to-make-sure-estranged-wife-got-nothing-in-divorce-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/304519\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney’s brother tried to make sure estranged wife got nothing in divorce: docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

VALENCIA, Calif. \u2014\u00a0Mitt Romney\u2019s brother filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife\u00a0plunged to her death from a California parking garage<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and tried to make sure courts awarded her nothing in the split, court documents show.<\/p>\n

George Scott Romney<\/a>, 81, filed the case against 64-year-old Carrie Elizabeth Romney in June, citing \u201cirreconcilable differences\u201d in papers obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n

Romney \u2014 a seasoned litigator who preiously ran for public office \u2014 sought to \u201cterminate the court\u2019s ability to award support\u201d to either person in the divorce, court documents show \u2014 suggesting he wanted to make sure the courts didn\u2019t step in and give his wife any assets.<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney\u2019s brother, George Scott Romney, filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife plunged to her death.<\/p>\n

Other documents from the split \u2013 filed by Romney\u2019s lawyer \u2013 noted that both parties had agreed to \u201cmediate property and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrie, however, returned fire with her own filings requesting that Romney provide her with alimony, and pay the legal costs of the divorce.<\/p>\n

She also requested that her name be restored to a former last name, Dimas.<\/p>\n

The case still ongoing when Carrie\u2019s body was found at the base of a parking garage Friday night in Valencia, 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Investigators are still looking into whether she jumped or accidentally fell, with the LA County medical examiner listing her cause of death as \u201cdeferred\u201d as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Foul play is not suspected, cops said.<\/p>\n

While it remains unclear if she fell or jumped, Carrie\u2019s body was found at the base of a Valencia parking garage on Friday evening night. KNN<\/p>\n

The couple had been married just over eight years when they split in May, with Romney filing for divorce the next month, court documents show.<\/p>\n

Despite dating as far back as 2012, Romney claimed in his filing that they shared no property for the court to divide.<\/p>\n

But they apparently lived together at a $725,000 Valencia condo, where neighbors said Carrie had been staying not long before her death.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was quiet. Very nice,\u201d a neighbor who asked not to be named told The Post.<\/p>\n

Romney was also seen going for a walk in the neighborhood on Tuesday, with a hood pulled right around his face as a rare dreary hit southern California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carrie\u2019s financial situation under the impending divorce was unclear, but she had a checkered past that included a 2001 Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing with an ex-husband.<\/p>\n

George Scott Romney was seen strolling in the rain just days after estranged wife Carrey Elizabeth Romney was found dead in downtown Los Angeles. Rafael Fontoura for NY Post<\/p>\n

The divorce would have been Romney\u2019s third. While the couple shared no kids, both have grown children from previous marriages \u2013 including Romney\u2019s daughter Ronna McDaniel, who formerly served as Chair of the Republican National convention.<\/p>\n

Romney is the older brother of Mitt Romney, the prominent ex-US Senator for Utah who challenged President Obama for the White House on the Republican ticked and lost in 2012.<\/p>\n

He is also the son and namesake of Michigan\u2019s most prominent governor and Nixon cabinet member, George W. Romney.<\/p>\n

George Scott Romney, 81, kept his head down and his face wrapped in a hood as the raindrops fell on his head Tuesday. Rafael Fontoura for NY Post<\/p>\n

Romney, a longtime corporate lawyer in Michigan, had political ambitions of his own in the past \u2013 though none came to fruition.<\/p>\n

He sought the Republican nomination for Michigan\u2019s 1998 attorney general race but was beaten. And in 2013 he mulled a run for a Michigan senate seat, Michigan Public Radio reported.<\/p>\n

Romney notably read out the Michigan roll call at the Republican National Convention in 2012 when his younger brother won the nomination.<\/p>\n

He could not be reached for comment about his wife, but his famous brother issued a heartfelt statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur family is heartbroken by the loss of Carrie, who brought warmth and love to all our lives,\u201d the former senator told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask for privacy during this difficult time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VALENCIA, Calif. \u2014\u00a0Mitt Romney\u2019s brother filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife\u00a0plunged to her death…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":304520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5416,48768,31507,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-304519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-divorces","11":"tag-mitt-romney","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115376467809973196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}