The parents of a toddler who plunged to her death from an open cruise ship window have divorced.
Alan and Kimberly Wiegand split in September 2024, public records show.
The couple’s 18-month-old daughter, Chloe, was killed in July 2019 after her grandfather Salvatore Anello raised her in front of an open window on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas while it was docked in Puerto Rico.
The child slipped out of Anello’s grasp and plummeted 11-stories to her death, striking the concrete floor of the Pan American dock II in San Juan.
Kimberly, a lawyer, is now dating Dustin Wilson, an air-conditioning repairman and father of three with a criminal record that includes felony burglary and breaking and entering charges, according to the Daily Mail reported.
Meanwhile Alan Wiegand, a South Bend, Indiana police officer, was honored by the department in April with a “Lifesaving Award” after he and two other officers administered CPR to an unconscious 18-year-old man, saving his life, according to the police department’s Facebook page.
Neither Alan Wiegand, Kim Wiegand, Anello nor Wilson responded to The Post’s request for comment.
Chloe was on vacation with her parents, two siblings and both sets of grandparents when she was killed.
The Wiegand’s sued Royal Carribean, claiming that poorly designed windows and a lack of warning signs were responsible for Chloe’s death.
Officials claimed that Chloe slipped through Anello’s arms — but a family attorney disputed the allegations, and instead said he had placed her on a wooden railing believing the window was closed.
Chloe had asked her step-grandfather to lift her up so she could bang on the glass like at her brother’s hockey games, the attorney had said.
“Essentially her grandfather lifts her up and puts her on a railing and where thinks that there is glass there because it’s clear, but it turns out there was no glass there,” attorney Michael Winkleman said at the time.
The couple ultimately withdrew their case in December 2023, the outlet reported.
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