Despite ‘whirlwind’ romance, no fraud found in Brooklyn prenup
A Brooklyn judge refused to nullify a prenuptial agreement despite arguments by the wife that she was fraudulently induced into signing the agreement.
Before meeting her eventual husband, Ezra Braha, Rina Braha was a divorced single mother raising two small children on an income of $2,000 a month. She was swept off her feet by Mr. Braha, who at 33 was 10 years her senior and a millionaire, and after a “whirlwind engagement of less than three weeks,” the couple married in December 2002.
Prior to the ceremony, Mr. Braha informed his fiancée that his father threatened to financially “cut him off” if the couple did not execute a prenuptial agreement. According to Ms. Braha, her husband devised a scheme to fool his father into thinking that the couple had actually entered into a real agreement. On their honeymoon cruise, the couple ripped up their signed copies of the prenuptial agreement and threw the pieces into the ocean.