Overview

• Alan Cacace, the Argentinian national she married for $15,000 last fall, gave his first public interview claiming Kobayashi broke a promise to refund him after she vanished.
• Cacace said they wed in Maui to secure his U.S. green card and that her disappearance in November concealed their sham arrangement and the fact that she still owed him money.
• Kobayashi has posted messages thanking those who searched for her and acknowledging her father’s suicide but has not addressed Cacace’s allegations.
• Kobayashi’s aunt Larie Pidgeon issued an exclusive statement denouncing the claim that Cacace helped plan the disappearance as baseless and harmful.
• Los Angeles police classified the incident as a voluntary disappearance and the FBI opened a December investigation into a potential green-card visa scam.