Following Amanda Riley’s viral cancer-faking scheme, her husband, Cory Riley, has retreated from the general public eye. With Amanda’s story being advised within the Scamanda docuseries, many are questioning what occurred to Cory and the place he’s in the present day.
Amanda was charged with wire fraud in July 2020 after gathering greater than $100,000 in on-line donations from individuals who believed she had most cancers. She was sentenced to 5 years in jail in 2022. The mother of two had developed an internet following after posting about her most cancers journey, which turned out to be utterly made up, on a weblog.
Scroll down for the whole lot we learn about Cory’s whereabouts in the present day and whether or not he was concerned in Amanda’s scheme.
The place is Amanda Riley’s husband Cory now?
Cory was dwelling in Texas as of 2024, which is when he filed for divorce from Amanda, in keeping with courtroom paperwork considered by Right now.com. Whereas he doesn’t stay a public life anymore, it’s anticipated that he resides in Austin with the sons, Carter and Connor, he and Amanda share.
Amanda and Cory had moved to Texas collectively earlier than she pled responsible in October 2021. They made the transfer from California after she misplaced her job as a principal at Pacific Level Christian College.
How did Amanda Riley meet her husband Cory?
Amanda met Cory whereas he was nonetheless married to his first spouse, Aletta Bernal, with whom he shares a daughter, Jessa. Bernal additionally had a daughter, Jaymie, from a earlier relationship. Jaymie had been recognized with leukemia and was not capable of go away the home usually, so the household employed Amanda to come back over and provides her dance and cheerleading classes.
As soon as Cory and Bernal cut up, he started a romantic relationship with Amanda, regardless of a 12-year age distinction. The 2 wound up getting married and having two youngsters of their very own.
Did Cory Riley learn about Amanda’s pretend most cancers rip-off?
Cory has by no means publicly spoken about what he knew and didn’t know. Nonetheless, his daughter Jessa spoke out on the Scamanda podcast in 2023 and hinted that she felt he knew what was occurring.
“He was very — I need to say ‘not himself,’ however I believe I don’t actually know who he’s as an individual,” she admitted. “He form of simply appeared numb on a regular basis. … He was at all times taking us in every single place, he was at all times going to the health club. With my dad, he’d at all times simply form of be like, ‘Oh, you already know, Mandy’s sick, and we will’t do that.’”
She additionally recalled many journeys to the hospital with Cory and Amanda, however stated she felt that it was “virtually form of to show there was one thing incorrect with [Amanda].”
Detective Jose Martinez, who oversaw the case, additionally stated, “I felt [Cory] knew what was occurring.” Nonetheless, he defined that there was not sufficient proof to show with no shadow of a doubt that Cory was concerned.
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