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And it's at this moment when this becomes a full-blown missing person search. And when police question Lauren,
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she tells them that if something bad happened to Jennifer, there is only one person it could be. Her husband of 14
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years, soon-to-be ex-husband, Fotis. And they learn that she and Fotis were years
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deep into a divorce with no end in sight. And it was, I mean, clearly messy to put it lightly. I mean, so much so
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that in Jennifer's divorce filing from 2 years prior, which would have been in 2017, she described Fotis' behavior as
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irrational, unsafe, bullying, threatening, and controlling. She also claimed in those same documents that
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he'd verbally and physically attacked her to the point that she filed for an emergency order for full custody.
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But that got denied by the courts. Now, right before she filed for divorce, she fled their home with their kids,
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telling Fotis that she was visiting her dad to grave, which was in upstate New York, but instead, she actually took
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them to a hotel in New York City and hired bodyguards. Now, Fotis lashed back by accusing her of kidnapping their
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kids, and they had been at each other's throats ever since in court appearances that were racking up millions of dollars
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in legal bills for them both. But it wasn't always that way, right? Like it usually never is.