LOS ANGELES — Mitt Romney’s brother filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife plunged to her death from a California parking garage – and tried to make sure courts awarded her nothing in the split, according to documents.
George Scott Romney, 81, filed the case against 64-year-old Carrie Elizabeth Romney on June 12, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to court documents obtained by The Post.
The documents suggest Romney, a prominent lawyer, sought to make sure his estranged wife was awarded nothing by the courts.
Despite being married more than eight years, starting in 2016, he said that they had no shared property that needed to be divided by the courts.
Romney also sought to “terminate the court’s ability to award support” to either person, court documents show.
Carrie filed documents requesting spousal support.
Carrie’s body was found at the base of a Valencia parking garage on Friday evening night.
It remains unclear whether she fell or if she jumped.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has listed her cause of death as “deferred.”
The divorce had not been finalized at the time of Carrie’s death.
Romney is the older brother of Mitt Romney, the former US Senator for Utah who challenged President Obama for the White House on the Republican ticket and lost in 2012.
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