Less than two months before millionaire Guma Aguiar vanished, his wife filed a legal document asking a Florida court to overturn the couple’s prenuptial agreement. In the April filing, obtained by ABCNews.com, she recounted the “living nightmare” that was her marriage while her husband suffered a six-month-long “manic episode.”
Guma Aguiar, 35, was last seen on June 19 in Fort Lauderdale. Early the next morning, his 31-foot fishing boat washed up on a Fort Lauderdale beach with the engine running and lights on, but with no sign of its Brazilian-born owner.
Since then, Aguiar’s mother, Ellen Aguiar, and wife Jamie Aguiar have been embroiled in a nasty legal fight for control of his assets, valued at over $100 million.
Aguiar’s body has not been found and questions have arisen about whether he may, in fact, be alive.
In the prenup-related filing, Jamie Aguiar alleges that her husband misrepresented his worth in the prenup. Her attorney, William Scherer, has said that the current prenup entitles Jamie Aguiar to only $500,000, despite her husband’s fortune.
Jamie Aguiar claims that Guma Aguiar was negotiating his interest in Portland Energy Partners, L.P., while the prenup was being prepared. Portland Energy owned nearly all of the equity in Leor Energy, a company run by Aguiar and his uncle Thomas Kaplan, which was eventually sold for $2.5 billion.
Aguiar and Kaplan had been in a nasty and costly legal battle over the division of the profits from the sale since 2009.
“The timing of these transactions is highly suspect,” Scherer wrote in the wife’s filing.
The filing claims there was “a conspiracy between Guma and members of his family and key advisors to keep this information from Jamie.”
The prenup specified that Jamie Aguiar was not entitled to any future equity interest in Portland Energy or any related entity, according to the filing.
The document also details Jamie Aguiar’s account of the couple’s turbulent marriage because of Guma Aguiar’s “severe bipolar disorder, psychosis, illicit and prescription drug abuse, and psychological problems” for which he was undergoing treatment.
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Come on!!!!
Yeah he had sooooo many issues yet he was able to run a multi billion dollar company?
Hmm, I $mell money!
if he did have all these abusive issues then she should be happy she will no longer suffer from this “maniac”. I suppose this is not the case.
They say every dog has its day, I think her’s is not coming so easy.