EXCLUSIVE: Meet the woman who knows George Santos's secrets! Congressman's elusive ex-wife steps out with her daughter, 4, in New Jersey - where she lives a comfortable suburban life in newly-built $750k home after divorcing the gay GOP fabulist in 2019

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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 claimed he used 'a poor choice of words.' But Santos in fact worked at a DISH Satellite call center from October 2011 to July 2012.

On the medical front, he claimed he once had a brain tumor. On March 20, 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic in the US, there was a YouTube video titled 'George Santos: A Corona Story.' 

George Santos claimed to be a victim of trial by fire by the media – above reporters trail him on Capitol Hill

Santos faced growing pressure to resign after being caught out in numerous lies about his past since he was elected

In it, he tells two men that he had 'battled a brain tumor a couple of years ago.'

Back on the sympathy and using the dead for his own purposes, he claimed four people who worked for him were killed in the June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which claimed 49 lives. There is no recorded connection between him and any victims.

Santos is now also facing multiple investigations by prosecutors over his personal and campaign finances.

Watchdog group The Campaign Legal Center has claimed he made various campaign finance violations and has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. 

They cite questions about loaning his campaign more than $700,000 while having earned income of only $55,000.

This week Santos appeared finally to show some contrition in an extraordinary interview, saying: 'I've learned my lesson.

'I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board.'

Incredibly, he added: 'It's largely always been above board. I'm just gonna go the extra step now to double check,' he told One American News network's Caitlin Sinclair.

'I've made my sincere apology multiple times. I earlier said that I thoroughly apologize for lying about my education and embellishing the resume made that very, very clear.'

The lies George Santos has told and the stories he has spun - so far: From fabricating family links to the Holocaust, 9/11 killing his mother, working on Wall Street, recovering from a brain tumor, being of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, and starting a charity 

George Santos was revealed to be a pathological liar after he won the 2022 midterm elections to represent New York's 3rd congressional district.

His lies and fabricated stories span almost every topic from his education background to his family's heritage.

Santos flipped the New York seat red and is on track to make history by being sworn in as the first openly gay Republican member of Congress.

The New York Times originally broke the story of Santos' resume embellishments on December 19. They reported that there was no evidence Santos had ever worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and did not attend Baruch College.

Now he is under investigation by both federal and local New York prosecutors, while more accusations about his history surface.  

DailyMail.com breaks down the lies Santos has been caught in – so far:

 

Santos says he is of Ukrainian Jewish descent

In one interview, Santos said his family name on his mother's side was the historically Jewish name '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,' Santos told Fox Digital in February. 'We don't carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.'

George Santos was revealed to be a pathological liar after he won the 2022 midterm elections to represent New York's 3rd congressional district. His lies and fabricated stories span almost every topic from his education background to his family's heritage

Reports indicate that there have been no successful efforts to find any Jewish or Ukrainian heritage in his family tree according to the Forward.

Santos said in a separate interview in 2020 that he was raised by 'a white Caucasian mother, an immigrant from Belgium. But Santos' mother, Fatima Devolder, was born in Brazil, according to her obituary in 2016. 

Additionally, newly resurfaced tweets show that Santos, who is Brazilian-American, claimed in July 2020 on Twitter that he was biracial, meaning 'Caucasian and black.'

 

Santos' claims his mother died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Santos wrote in a July 2021 tweet that he was 'blocking' an account with the handle '9/11 was a victimless crime' because his mother was a victim of the terrorist attack.

He wrote, '9/11 claimed my mother's life… so I'm blocking so I don't ever have to read this again,' after the user responded to a tweet from Santos regarding immigration.

An obituary for Santos's mother, however, states that she died in December 2016, which is more than 15 years after the attack took place.

He also confirmed the real date in a December 2021 tweet where he said: 'December 23rd this year marks 5 years I lost my best friend and mentor. Mom you will live forever in my heart.'

Santos's campaign website said his mother 'survived the tragic events of September 11th' in the South Tower office of the World Trade Center and died 'a few years later when she lost her battle to cancer.'

A New York Times report had described Santos' mother as a 'domestic worker' or 'housekeeper.'

His campaign website described his mother as a top executive.

'George's work ethic comes from his mother, who came from nothing, but worked her way up to be the first female executive at a major financial institution,' the website states.

The congressman-elect said in a 2021 tweet that, '9/11 claimed my mother's life,' however Fatima Devolder died in 2016 of cancer and it's unclear if it was 9/11-related. It's also unclear if she was an executive or a housekeeper

 

Santos said he attended a prestigious New York prep school

The Representative-elect said that he attended Horace Mann School – an elite private school in the Bronx where tuition costs $59,800 per year.

'He began Horace Mann preparatory school in the Bronx, however, did not graduate from Horace Mann due to financial difficulties for his family,' read a 2019 biography during his first campaign for Congress, which Santos lost.

'He obtained a GED during his senior year,' it added.

The school said, according to CNN, that he never attended.

'We've searched the records and there is no evidence that George Santos (or any alias) attended Horace Mann,' spokesperson for Horace Mann Prep School Ed Adler said. 

CNN reported that the New York Republican never attended Horace Mann School (pictured), an elite private school in the Bronx

 

Former call center worker Santos' resume includes time at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup 

Santos said that he worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup but now says he used a 'poor choice of words' when describing his relationship with the two firms.

The incoming congressman worked at a DISH Satellite call center from October 2011 to July 2012.

He also worked for LinkBridge, where, in an attempt to justify his lie, Santos said that he did business with Goldman and Citi and made 'capital introductions' between clients and investors.

Santos said he 'never worked directly' for either firm.

George Santos (right) poses with his then fiancé at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve

 

Santos's claim his family-owned real estate portfolio of 10+ properties

Santos posted on Twitter in February 2021 that 'my family and I' had not received any rent on 13 properties allegedly owned by him. 

A review property taxes owed or paid for in New York state shows no evidence of ownership. 

 

He claimed to have a brain tumor

On March 30, 2020, at the start of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic, an interview with Santos was published on YouTube titled 'George Santos: A Corona Story.' The video has since been set to private

In the video, according to Newsweek, Santos tells two men, one wearing a 'Guns and Freedom' hat and the other seated by a 'Don't Tread on Me' flag, that he had 'battled a brain tumor.'

Discussing his health Santos said: 'I have an immunodeficiency and I also have acute chronic bronchitis. I also battled a brain tumor a couple of years ago and I had radiation done which really lowers your immunity in general.'

 

Claimed that he lost four employees in Pulse nightclub massacre

During an interview with WNYC, Santos alleged that four 'people that work for me' were killed during the June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 dead. 

No connection has yet to be establish between any of the victims and Santos.

 

Said he was the founder of a charitable foundation

Santos said he founded a tax-exempt animal rights group, Friends of Pets United, which rescued more than 2,500 cats and dogs.

But no records relating to the group's charitable status could be found by the IRS, nor could either the New York or New Jersey attorney general's offices uncover documentation confirming Friends of Pets United had been registered as a charity.

Public records, however, show that Santos was previously married to a woman named Uadla Vieira, a native of Brazil, until 2019

 

In 2016, he claimed $2,250 was stolen in a mugging on his way to pay rent - but cops have no record of the incident 

Santos claimed that in 2016 he was mugged on his way to pay his apartment rent in Queens.

In a sworn statement battling eviction, he said $2,250 was stolen. According to Gothamist, he wrote: 'I have been mugged at approx 1:15 p.m. on 01/15/16 on Queens Boro Plaza, as I was on my way to pay the lawyer.'

'I have gone to the checks cash location located on 31st and 23rd Ave in Astoria to request a stop payment.

'I am unable to provide a police report today as I was requested to go back Tuesday to pick it up.'

The NYPD, however, have no record of the incident, the outlet reported.

Santos eventually moved out of the apartment as a result of the case and paid the rest of what he owed in rent. 

-- by Katelyn Caralle