Overview

• Papini claimed on The Viall Files podcast that her sister, Sheila Koester, and ex-husband, Keith Papini, maintained a “highly inappropriate relationship” during and after her 2016 disappearance.
• In Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, she revoked her original account involving two masked Hispanic women and instead said her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, held her captive for 22 days.
• James Reyes has denied Papini’s new allegations and faces no charges related to her disappearance.
• Papini served 10 months of an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty to staging her own kidnapping and was ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution.
• Keith Papini retains sole custody of their two children, with Sherri Papini granted supervised visits under a contentious custody arrangement.