EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar SPLITS with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse as she heads for SECOND divorce with father of her three children
- Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband Ahmed Hirsi the father of her three children have split, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively
- Omar left her husband and has moved into a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis's trendiest neighborhoods
- 'Wow,' said Hirsi, when approached about the split by DailyMail.com. 'I can't comment on that. I'm sorry, I just can't say anything'
- Omar did not return calls requesting comment from DailyMail.com by deadline
- The news comes as critics are demanding Omar answer questions about whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the US
- 'Obviously we are proud that a Somali-American has been elected but we just think it is the wrong Somali-American,' a community leader told DailyMail.com
- Omar first married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but six years later they 'reached an impasse in our life together,' and divorced
- In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, who has been identified as her brother - but this has not been proven
- Omar had a third child with Hirsi in 2012, even though she was still legally married to Elmi - who she divorced in 2017 and married Hirsi in 2018
By Martin Gould In Minneapolis, Minnesota For Dailymail.com Published: 13:13 EDT, 26 July 2019 | Updated: 15:38 EDT, 26 July 2019
Leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband the father of her three children have split and are heading for their second divorce, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
The bust-up comes just as critics are demanding answers as to whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the United States.
Omar has now dumped her current husband Ahmed Hirsi - who she first married in a religious ceremony in 2002 and divorced in 2008 - and moved into a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis's trendiest neighborhoods, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
But Hirsi, is also spending time at the apartment, which is in the Mill District sector of Minnesota's largest city, when she is out of town.
'Wow,' said Hirsi, when approached about the split by DailyMail.com outside the complex. 'I can't comment on that.
'I'm sorry, I just can't say anything,' he added before driving off in his BMW car.
Omar did not return calls requesting comment from DailyMail.com by deadline.
Hirsi, 39, had been seen leaving the $2,860-a-month home alone at 7:45am and returning to drop off his mother and his younger daughter nearly three hours later.
'He only goes there when Ilhan is in DC,' one family friend told DailyMail.com. 'When she's in Minneapolis he sleeps at his house.'
Hirsi was noticeably absent when Omar returned to a hero's welcome at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport last week after being attacked by President Donald Trump.
At the time, he was sitting morosely in a Starbucks coffee shop close to the now-overgrown home that he and Omar shared during their marriage, sources tell DailyMail.com.
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She first married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002 when she was 19. Six years later, after two children, the couple said they had 'reached an impasse in our life together,' and divorced.
The following year Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, just two weeks after he entered the United States. He has been identified as her brother by many media outlets, though due to a lack of records in their war-torn country of birth that has not been proven.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote in June that it 'could neither conclusively confirm nor rebut the allegation that (Elmi) is Omar's sibling.' Politifact and another myth-busing website, Snopes, came to similar conclusions.
On their marriage application they gave their address as Columbia Heights, Minnesota, but were married 25 miles away in Eden Prairie at a nondescript single-story brick building that houses a county office and a library.
Despite both being Muslim, the ceremony was conducted by Wilecia Harris, a Christian minister. 'If they had gone to an imam he would have almost certainly have known if they were related,' one Somali leader in Minnesota said.
That marriage lasted just two years but it was enough to allow Elmi to study alongside his new wife at North Dakota State University.
Records suggest that Omar, Elmi and Hirsi all lived together for at least part of that time.
When contacted by DailyMail.com at her home in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville, Harris refused to open the door and said through the glass that she would not comment on the ceremony.
Beyond saying the allegation that she had married her brother was 'disgusting,' Omar has refused to discuss the arrangement.
Just this week, DailyMail.com traced Elmi, 34, down to a beach resort in Mombasa, Kenya and photographed him soaking up the sun on the beach.
Omar then had a third child with Hirsi in 2012 and in 2015 she filed a joint tax return with him even though she was still legally married to Elmi.
She finally divorced Elmi in 2017 and married Hirsi in a civil ceremony the following year.
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