Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée charged with abusing her daughter’s trust following $10,000 dance class expense
Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez shares daughter Avielle, 10, with the late NFL player
Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée is under investigation for misusing the late NFL player’s trust fund money, which was intended for the couple’s 10-year-old kid.
Shayanna Jenkins-legal Hernandez’s team submitted an invoice to a court-appointed trustee for reimbursement from the trust fund, alleging the expenses were linked to daughter Avielle. Attorney David Schwartz, the trustee, responded to the motion by objecting to the request.
“Large amounts of money are spent under each category of the Accountings, with little clear identification of how these disbursements benefit Avielle,” the documents obtained by PEOPLE.
“The Trustee understands that providing for Avielle includes expenses related to her household, but the expenditures from her late father’s NFL pension and Social Security benefits merit investigation for their reasonableness, if not correctness,” the filing asserts.
The document goes on to list specific expenses, such as $17,000 in apparel, $10,000 in both entertainment and online shopping, thousands in “self-care” fees, and $12,000 spent at HomeGoods.
The two parties initially clashed in September, when Jenkins-Hernandez requested $10,000 from the trust to support the expense of Avielle’s competitive dancing lessons. Schwartz refused the plea, citing about $150,000 in money provided to Jenkins-Hernandez each year to meet Avielle’s daily expenditures, and then requesting that she be removed as the child’s conservator.
The mother of two, who received her second child in 2018, has also requested that Schwartz be removed and replaced as trustee, accusing the attorney of preventing Avielle from participating in her pastime.
“There is every reason to question whether and how the Conservator is applying the significant resources that should be available to pay for Avielle’s daily needs, including dance lessons, especially since all of her basic housing security and educational expenses are paid from the Trust,” Schwartz’s legal team asserts.
Hernandez and Jenkins-Hernandez had been dating for several years prior to his court difficulties. Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight end, was arrested in 2013 for the murder of Odin Lloyd, a man who dated Jenkins-sister. Hernandez, was charged in connection with the fatal drive-by shootings of Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado while awaiting trial.
He was convicted of Lloyd’s murder and sentenced to life in prison; he was cleared of the double homicide in April 2017 but died by suicide in his jail cell a few days later. He was 27.
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