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Officials: Slain ex-model ID'd by breast implants
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-08-22 16:46
Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore, told The Associated Press her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. However, there were no court records of an annulment in either Clark County, Nevada, where the couple was married, or in Los Angeles County, where they most recently lived. Court records show Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nevada, with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore in the arm and was set to be tried in December.
In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge. Alain Hepner, Jenkins' attorney in that matter, said as part of the judgment the judge also ordered counseling for anger management, domestic violence and sexual addiction. Hepner said there was also a civil restraining order. In Calgary, Paulina Chmielecka said she was engaged to Jenkins for 2 1/2 years and never saw a violent side. "The guy was a great guy, as far as I knew he was very happy," she told the Canadian TV network CTV. "In our relationship, we had our fights, everyone does, but I would never say, 'Well, he could have murdered someone.' There's no way." A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com says Jenkins has a license to fly commercial airplanes and has dabbled in several development enterprises and investments since graduating from college in 1999. Those include Townscape Development Inc., a condo project undertaken in Calgary with his father, architect Daniel Jenkins. The elder Jenkins did not return phone or e-mail messages at his office. After taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire" finished in early March, Jenkins met Fiore in a Las Vegas casino and the two got married, said Lepore, Fiore's mother. Court records show the date of marriage as March 18. But in May "they had a big blowout" and fought because he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends, Lepore said. Jenkins then went to Mexico to do another reality TV show but struggled to get Fiore back when he returned. "He convinced her during that month that he was really the guy for her," Lepore said. "He wrote poems and stories, and prayed, and (claimed he) had this huge spiritual awakening." The US has filed a provisional apprehension warrant with Canada that allows officials there to issue a Canadian arrest warrant based on the US charges, said Hession, the US marshals official. The Canadian government will extradite defendants to the US but only with reassurances that they will not face the death penalty in the US. Emami, the Orange County district attorney spokeswoman, has said her office is not pursuing the death penalty.
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