Holy matrimany!
She faces fraud after 10 nups, no divorces
HERE COMES the bride — again. And again. And again.
A Manhattan woman faces felony charges in the Bronx after marrying 10 different men across an 11-year span — without getting a single divorce from any of her “husbands,” according to a criminal complaint.
Liana Barrientos, 39, is charged with filing a fraudulent marriage license application and a bogus marriage license, said the Bronx district attorney’s office.
She was due for a Friday arraignment in Bronx Supreme Court on two charges of filing a false instrument. Each count carries a maximum sentence of four years for the not-so-blushing bride.
The native of the Dominican Republic was outed as a serial spouse following a probe of her most recent nuptials in March 2010, the complaint charged.
She swore that the not-so-blessed union was her first trip down the aisle, but authorities said Barrientos was never a bridesmaid and always a bride.
Her inability to say “I don’t” was finally noted by officials after the marriage to a Bronx man named Salle Keita.
“The defendant ... stated in sum and substance that she did marry Mr. Keita and that was her first and only marriage,” according to the complaint.
A Bronx detective uncovered nine previous marriage licenses for Barrientos, including a halfdozen issued in the span of six busy months, the court documents filed last November charged.
The first license was dated Nov. 5, 1999, to husband Mohamed Gerbril, and the last on Aug. 3, 2002, to groom Kakhaber Khorbaladze — her sixth marriage that year.
The prior licenses were all filed in Long Island or Westchester County.
Authorities had yet to explain the motive for the multiple marriages.
A similar 2010 case in the Bronx involving a different woman was exposed as a cash-for-citizenship scam after the “bride” was busted before saying “I do” to hubby No. 5.
The new complaint charged that each of the 10 licenses contained Barrientos’ Social Security number, date of birth, location of birth and the names of her parents.
And it alleged that the bride even identified her signatures on the marriage license application and the actual license from her wedding to Keita.
Barrientos was not at her Manhattan home when the Daily News stopped by Thursday afternoon.
Barrientos, who was originally arrested last November, had a rap sheet dating back to 1997 arrests for drug possession and loitering in Manhattan.
There was another sealed Manhattan case in 2007, a 2010 bust for jumping a turnstile and trespassing, and a 2012 arrest for drug possession.