'Aggressive and unsettling': Judge orders former GOP governor to stay out of ex-wife’s home

Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) is currently going through a messy divorce with his ex-wife, Glenna after separating last year. Now, a Kentucky judge has ordered him to stay out of his former spouse's home due to his continued unannounced comings and goings.

Louisville Public Media (LPM) reported Wednesday that Bevin — who has been a private citizen since losing the 2019 gubernatorial election to then-Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) — has just one week to obtain all remaining belongings from his ex-wife's home in the Louisville suburb of Anchorage. At that point, he has to obtain permission from the court if he hopes to enter the house.

Glenna alleged in a sworn affidavit that the former governor was exhibiting behavior "disruptive to the household" in their interactions. LPM reported that Bevin frequently pesters his ex-wife about the divorce case, follows her around the home where their last remaining minor child still resides and peppers her with questions despite her repeated requests for him to leave.

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"He follows me from room to room and even into the bathroom or my bedroom, disrespecting my privacy; to me his conduct is aggressive and unsettling," Glenna Bevin stated in the affidavit. She added that her ex-husband sometimes even remains in her home after she goes to bed.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Angela Johnson granted Glenna Bevin's motion, and ordered that the former governor only communicate with his ex-wife through a parenting app in addition to barring him from his former spouse's home.

"[Matt Bevin] seems to be trying to keep the parties’ relationship and maintaining a ‘business as usual’ environment," Johnson wrote in the order. "However, the truth of the matter is that the parties are getting a divorce. Normalcy and the ‘business as usual’ environment are gone."

Johnson's order also granted Glenna Bevin's motion to obtain half of the proceeds from the sale of their $1.5 million home in the Cherokee Gardens subdivision in Louisville's ritzy East End so she can buy a new home for herself and her children. The judge also ordered that the Bevins' Anchorage home — which they had planned to sell — be listed within 60 days.

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According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Matt Bevin bought the Anchorage property — a sprawling 11,300 square-foot mansion on a 10-acre lot — for $1.6 million in 2020 from a longtime friend and political donor he appointed to the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board while he was in office. A year after the sale, the home was valued at nearly $3 million.

In his official response to Glenna Bevin's motion, Matt Bevin's attorney, Jesse Mudd, said his client was "at a loss" as to why his former spouse wanted to bar him from entering the Anchorage home. He added that his client "vehemently denies" her allegations that he is harassing her.

"Such an assertion is simply not true and is designed to embarrass and malign Matt," Mudd said.

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