Read on to learn more about Kelly’s past marriage …
Of her ex-husband, Kelly says she “didn’t even know who [she] was sleeping next to.”
“In my twenties, I was married to a Chinese guy, and we lived in a privileged, outrageous lifestyle,” Kelly explained on the show’s premiere. “You know, seven cars, four houses. I think at the time we were spending, like, 400k a month on our black [American Express card] until one day [when] the government showed up and took everything from us, and my ex-husband was arrested.”
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She went on: “I didn’t know it at the time, but he was running one of the largest cyber scams in American history. All of our assets were frozen, and we gave the government, I think it was, like, $168 million. Yeah. I didn’t even know who I was sleeping next to.”
Kelly’s ex-husband was involved in a “multimillion-dollar text messaging consumer fraud scheme,” according to the show.
As Kelly talked about her ex-husband on the show, viewers see flashes of press releases from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York about a multimillion-dollar text messaging consumer fraud scheme.
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Six defendants charged in Manhattan federal court in multimillion-dollar text messaging consumer fraud scheme http://t.co/QYz6MXnWyM
— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) May 28, 2015
In May 2015, the office announced the unsealing of a criminal complaint “charging Lin Miao, Yong Jason Lee, a.k.a. ‘Jason Lee,’ Michael Pearse, Yongchao Liu, a.k.a. ‘Kevin Liu,’ Michael Pajaczkowski, a.k.a. ‘Paj,’ and Christopher Goff with participating in a scheme to charge mobile phone customers tens of millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring text messages.”
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These text message were about “topics such as horoscopes, celebrity gossip, and trivia facts, without the customers’ knowledge or consent — a practice the defendants referred to as ‘auto-subscribing.’”
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