Reality TV star Porsha Williams is reportedly calling on her contacts at the White House to release her estranged husband Simon Guobadia from ICE custody.
Simon is currently being detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly.
Simon has run afoul of immigration officials by intentionally overstaying his visas multiple times over the past few decades.
In 1987, Simon was arrested and pled guilty to bank and credit card fraud. Over the next few years, he was arrested two more times and deported back to his native Nigeria in the 1990s.
Simon returned to the U.S. several more times – each time overstaying illegally obtained visas. He applied for U.S. citizenship in 2016, but his application was denied due to using a false identity.
Still, he refused to leave the U.S., until he was detained as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation orders in early February.
Immigrants who don’t have citizenship papers and green cards will be deported without exception.
Last year, a Georgia judge ordered Simon to continue to pay the mortgage and utility bills at a $7 million home in the Atlanta area.
Simon previously asked the court to evict Porsha and her daughter, Pilar McKinley, from the Sandy Springs mansion, but the judge declined the request.
According to court records obtained by In Touch Weekly, Guobadia is not allowed to live at the 15,284 square foot home, which he purchased in 2021.
Life was good for Porsha — until Simon was detained by ICE. Now she has to find the money to fund her extravagant lifestyle.
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star still draws a paycheck from the show, but not enough to pay the bills on a 15,000 square foot house.
Simon and Porsha married in 2022, but she filed for divorce after just 15 months of marriage.
