In the Miami social scene, real estate developer Sergio Pino and his wife, Tatiana, were known as generous philanthropists who counted prominent politicians among their friends, including U.S. senator Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, and Florida's lieutenant governor Jeanette Nuñez. "Sergio was a networker," says Ana Quincoces, host of the Dial M for Miami podcast and a Real Housewives of Miami alum, who knew the Pinos for 20 years. "Tatiana was always a beauty and a real good mother."
In private, however, the glamorous couple, who had two children together, had entered a rough patch in 2017. Sergio, 67, was having an affair with another woman, and Tatiana, 55, began to suffer from a mysterious epilepsy-like illness that a series of doctors tried, and failed, to diagnose until a specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore came to the shocking conclusion that Tatiana was being poisoned with fentanyl that somebody was putting in her prescription medications. "I thought I was going to die," Tatiana later recalled during a deposition in the couple's divorce proceedings.
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