George Santos' ex-wife is seen outside New Jersey home amid scandal trends now
Uadla Vieira Santos was unwilling to discuss her ex-husband when DailyMail.com caught up with her in Elizabeth, New Jersey
She's the woman with the answers to one of the most intriguing political scandals of the year – Long Island liar George Santos's wife for seven years.
But Uadla Vieira Santos is unwilling to spill the secrets on the man who got himself into Congress with a series of falsehoods combined with hundreds of thousands of mysterious dollars and the overarching questions about his sexuality.
'I have nothing to say,' the 29-year-old mother-of-one-daughter said keeping her head down when approached by DailyMail.com outside her home in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Santos, 34, a New York Republican, who won a seat covering northern Queens and western Long Island, in November's election married Uadla in 2012. She filed for divorce the following year but withdrew the petition and they finally ended the marriage in 2019, the year after her daughter was born.
Santos claims he is gay – the first openly LGBTQ non-incumbent member of his party to win a seat in the United States House of Representatives. But if that is so, why did he marry Uadla? And is he the father of her four-year-old daughter, who was born while they were still married?
Uadla is now living a comfortable suburban life in a densely populated New Jersey neighborhood, about an hour outside New York City, after the couple's split three years ago.
When we spotted her she was wearing two rings on the wedding finger of her left hand.
She takes her daughter to school each day by car and returns to the newly-built multi-home property she bought in June 2022 for $750,000.
DailyMail.com spotted Uadla , 29, outside her home this week amid the scandal surrounding her ex-husband, GOP Congressman George Santos
Uadla, a mother of one, now lives a comfortable suburban life outside New York City, with her four-year-old daughter
Santos was only recently revealed to have been previously married to Vieira, a native of Brazil, in December. The two were married from 2012 to 2019
At the time of their marriage Santos was working at a call center in Queens.
Before they were wed, Santos had been a drag queen in Brazil. When pictures turned up, he initially denied it was him, them saoid it was a one-time event. But videos and pictures taken over a three year period from 2005-08 have since emerged.
And years before their official split, the man who somehow persuaded 145,824 voters to back him on November 8 had embarked on a series of same-sex relationships with young men he met in bars or through the dating app Tinder, according to reports.
Indeed, the son of Brazilian immigrants successfully campaigned for New York's 3rd Congressional District in the 2022 midterm election as an openly gay man claiming he 'never had an issue with my sexuality in the past decade.'
How that 10 years of gay relationships sits with his marriage is just one more conundrum amid an avalanche of Santos lies about his background that are so serious the calls for him to quit his House of Representatives seat are deafening.
It is not known how embattled Santos met Uadla, who is understood to come from Feira de Santana, a city of some 620,000 people in the eastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Nor is is known when she settled in the United States.
However, she now appears comfortable in her suburban life in Elizabeth, a city of 137,000 which boasts America's largest industrial seaport.
She takes daughter Beatriz, 4, to school each day by car and returns to the newly-built multi-home property she bought in June 2022 for $750,000
Despite her divorce from George Santos, Uadla was wearing two rings on the wedding band finger of her left hand
Wearing a long quilted red coat, blue jeans and black sneakers, she was seen leaving her home late afternoon earlier this week on a school run
Uadla bought the three apartment building in Elizabeth, New Jersey for $750,000 in June last year as her deed shows
Her spanking new home sits on a street corner amid a mixture of housing dating back to the 1940s, predominantly individual houses long ago turned into apartments.
Uadla's place and one or two others on the road are the first signs of possible gentrification – a few doors away a gleaming Porsche 911 sits on the tiny driveway outside an equally smart newer home.
She bought the pad with a $600,000 mortgage dated June 17, 2022, according to legal paperwork obtained by DailyMail.com. The deed, also obtained by DailyMail.com, lists the price at $750,000.
Uadla occupies one floor of the three-story building, renting out the other two.
And perhaps as a new precaution amid the revelations about her ex, her windows appear to be blacked out during the daytime.
Wearing a long quilted red coat, blue jeans and black sneakers, she was seen leaving her home late afternoon earlier this week on a school run.
Her car keys were clutched in her left hand, her fingernails immaculately varnished in white and the rings clearly visible.
The following day she emerged for the morning school run clutching her daughter's pink bag and wrapped against the cold in a short blue quilted jacket, tight black workout leggings, a gray woolen hat and black sneakers.
According to records, Uadla was previously associated with a two-bedroom, one bathroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, before she moved to New Jersey.
Uadla Santos and her daughter, then 2, were pictured by a photo agency watching a pre-taping of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 2020 three weeks after George Santos lost his first bid for a seat in Congress
Years before his official separation from Uadla, Santos engaged in a series of gay relationships with young men he met in bars or through the dating app Tinder, according to reports
Her ex-husband's own love life is as complicated as the fabrication of fantasies that helped get him elected and later spiraled into scandal.
His marriage to Uadla was only revealed publicly in December, two months after Santos confirmed he was 'openly gay.'
One man has come forward since claiming he began dating and then moved in with Santos two years after the congressman married Uadla, when he went by the name of Anthony Devolder.
Speaking to the New York Times in early January, Pedro Vilarva said he was 18 and Santos was 26 when the two first met in 2014 and began dating.
Vilarva went on to date and share an apartment with Santos in Florida, but left when he discovered the future representative was wanted in Brazil for alleged theft.
However, the confusion over relationships is just the tip of the storm now surrounding Santos who is being confronted daily by his litany of lies while still refusing to stand down – despite finally quitting two House committee appointments.
In an attempt to appeal to simply everyone, he concocted an unbelievable background.
While campaigning, he claimed his grandparents escaped the Holocaust and that his family's Jewish name on his mother's side was Zabrovsky.
'My grandfather was born in Kyiv and left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family,' he told Fox Digital.
'We don't carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refugees or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.'
In fact his grandparents were Catholics. And once confronted by the lie he said he 'never claimed to be Jewish' but only 'Jew-ish'.
In a further bid for the sympathy vote, Santos cruelly capitalized on the dead of 9/11 by claiming his mother Fatima Devolder was a victim of the al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center.
Five years before his marriage, George Santos was a drag queen in Brazil where he used the name Kitara Ravache. He initially denied he had ever dressed in drag, then said it was a one-time thing. But videos have surfaced of several appearances from 2005-08
Questions have even emerged over Santos's fiancé (left) as it was revealed he never accepted the proposal. The pair attended Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve Party to welcome in 2021
He wrote a tweet saying: '9/11 claimed my mother's life…'
His campaign website said she 'survived the tragic events of September 11' in the South Tower office… 'and died a few years later when she lost her battle to cancer.'
However immigration documents show Fatima was not in New York on the day of the al-Qaeda atrocity but back in Brazil.
To show his sparkling academic credentials, Santos claimed he attended Horace Mann School, an elite establishment in the Bronx where tuition costs $59,800 a year.
A biography for his failed 2020 bid for Congress said he did not graduate from the school 'due to financial difficulties for his family'.
The school saw it differently. 'We've searched the records and there is no evidence that George Santos (or any alias) attended Horace Mann,' said a spokesperson.
He also said he graduated with a degree in economics and finance from Baruch College in 2010, and was even a star on the volleyball team there. But a college representative told the New York Times there was no record of Santos being in the class of 2010.
Santos burnished his employment history by claiming he worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
When caught out, he
