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Before Mary Bonnet married Romain Bonnet, she ensured that she was financially protected.
The Selling Sunset star appeared on Jason Tartick’s Trading Secrets Podcast on Monday, November 17, and opened up about her career in the worlds of real estate, reality TV, and influencers. During the episode, Tartick, 37, asked the Netflix star if she had a prenuptial agreement with her husband, Roman.
The pair married in October 2019, but before she walked down the aisle, Ms Bonet revealed the couple signed an “iron-clad” prenuptial agreement. Mary, 45, explained to Tartick that she had to file for bankruptcy because her ex-husband had “accumulated a huge amount of debt” in her name and “stealed everything” from their previous marriage.
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The reality star admitted that “things have changed quite a bit” for them since she and Roman got married and the show started airing in March 2019.
“There’s an extra thing[before marriage],” she said, noting that it was added to the contract when they bought their Los Angeles home. The estate agent explained that anything added as post-wedding modifications was “very fair.”
She frankly tells him that she makes more money than Roman, but he’s “okay with that, he doesn’t care.”
“He is contributing,” she said, rejecting public criticism and insisting he was a “gold digger.”
“He contributes and always wants to do that,” she said. “He’s a very stubborn person.”
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She added that she believed in both the prenup and the romance, explaining that he would “never try to take[her]money.”
“It basically says that the money I put down for the house is going to come back to me first when I sell it,” she said of her home, noting that she also provided the down payment. “He then accepted an amount that we both thought was fair and a good place to be when we were in love.”
“Separation and divorce can be brutal, and people end up not being the same people they were before they fought for money,” she says. “When you’re in love, when you have wisdom, you want to do what’s fair instead of just trying to ruin the other person’s life.”
“I’m not trying to take anything that’s his,” she continued. “What you put into a relationship, you get rid of.”
Mary also shared that they still have separate bank accounts.
She had previously been “burned” by a previous relationship and wanted to keep their bank accounts separate. She told Mr Tartick that Ms Roman had “no problem” with maintaining separate accounts. “He’s calm about it. I’m good at it too. We know what it is. There’s no question marks, no gray areas…especially when it comes to money and finances.”
