Pedro Jimeno Accused of an Immigration Scam Amid SHADY Divorce Filing!

Pedro Jimeno defends the legitimacy of his marriage to Chantel Everett to her skeptical family in the upcoming episode of The Family Chantel.

In a preview clip of Monday’s episode, the TLC star runs into Chantel’s father, Thomas, and her sister, Winter, while searching for his wife. He’s forced to answer to his father-in-law and defend his past motives. 

The currently airing season of the TLC show has been documenting the breakdown of the couple’s marriage.

“You asked me for my daughter’s hand in marriage. I thought it was gonna be [like] you’re all gonna grow old together,” Thomas tells Pedro. “After four or five years, you all are growing apart. It seems like now it could be a marriage scam.”

The 30-year-old real estate agent fires back—“Let me tell you something, sir, if you believe it was a marriage scam, I could have [gotten] my citizenship three years ago … I don’t care about citizenship.”

Winter points out that a person can spot a potential con artist by how they “[distract] you from the truth.”

“The fact that he’s even mentioning, ‘Well I could have been a citizen by now if I wanted to’ … that makes me think, ‘Well, you’ve been thinking about this, this whole time and that’s just a part of the scam,’” Winter says in a confessional spot. “You know what the truth is? You don’t do it [like] right when you get citizenship you leave — you wait, OK? That’s suspicious.”

Pedro continues to deny that he’s pulling a green card scam, adding that he did “the best” he could to make their marriage succeed. 

“You think that makes sense to me? To be a f–king immigration scam [after] six, seven years together?” Pedro says in a personal interview.“I can’t deal with it [anymore], the family tells me it’s always a scam, that my family is scamming, that I only want to take money from her. She takes money from me! What the hell?”

Chantel and Pedro connected in person for the first time in Pedro’s native Dominican Republic, where they got engaged. TLC cameras chronicled Pedro’s arrival to the United States on a K1 visa, which allowed the couple 90 days to decide whether or not to tie the knot. The pair wed in 2017, amid lots of family turmoil. 

The popular 90 Day Fiancé alums made the decision to split, in May. Pedro filed for divorce on May 26 but claimed that they had been separated since April 27. The reality star said that their marriage had become “irretrievably broken.”

Pedro accused Chantel of transferring cash from a joint account only days before they split, in an emergency motion. Chantel stated in court documents that she was ending the marriage for reasons that included adultery and “physical domestic violence, as well as mental pain.”

Court papers revealed that a mutual restraining order was filed on the same day that Pedro filed for divorce. 

“They know that she took the money, I believe they told her to take the money,” Pedro states in the sneak peek. “And in the end, I know that … family [takes] care of family.”

The Family Chantel airs Mondays at 8 pm, ET, on TLC.

 

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