A Woman Found Ten Mr. Rights in New York, Then Got Arrested for It

A serial seductress has been indicted on felony charges after allegedly marrying ten different men over the course of 11 years—without divorcing all of them.

Achieving a feat that might have required another woman to make 300 sandwiches ten times, Liana Barrientos put a ring on it all across the greater New York area, acquiring husbands and marriage licenses in Rye, Yonkers, Hempstead, Ramapo, Huntington, Greenburgh, Mamaroneck, White Plains, and the Bronx.

Prosecutors allege that each subsequent marriage took place "without benefit of divorce," the New York Times reports.

But the sound of Barrientos's perpetual wedding bells has been silenced by the charges against her in Bronx State Supreme Court. While bigamy is, technically, illegal in all 50 states (and usually punishable with about five years in prison), people are "rarely if ever charged" with it, according to a spokesperson for the Bronx District Attorney.

Rather, Barrientos is being charged with two counts of "offering a false instrument for filing"—basically, falsifying public records.

Incredibly, early reports suggest that the Pink Panther of engagement rings was never actually found out by her harem of hubbies. In a city where single women outnumber single men, Barrientos has managed to do ten times what many struggle to do once: find a man in New York who's ready to pack it in.

In 2002, a particularly busy year, Barrientos married six different men in six months, including one on Valentine's Day—and another about two weeks later. One wonders if she posted a Life Event on Facebook for each ceremony.

A motive—as if there needs to be one—has not been alleged, although theTimes reports that the Department Homeland Security is "involved," raising the question of whether this had something to do with immigration. The paper also lists each of Barrientos's hubbies' names—Gerbril, Allam, Rahman, Koridze, Goktepe, Paharelau, Dzneladze, Rajput, Khorbaladze, and Keita. Barrientos's rap sheet includes previous convictions for drug possession and theft of services.

Technically, Barrientos is only being charged for her most recent attempt to hoodwink the laws of love (and the federal government)—namely, listing herself as "unmarried" on her marriage license in 2010, the last stop a wedding spree that began more than a decade earlier. She now faces two charges that each carry a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

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