Rupnow, 15, had a troubled home life that included long bouts in therapy, while her parents jeff and melissa divorced and remarried multiple times, according to the washington post. Court records show natalie “samantha” rupnow’s parents had divorced and remarried multiple times. While this split living situation was happening for rupnow, her parents remarried again but petitioned for a divorce in april 2021
A little over a year later in july 2022, it was decided that rupnow would mostly live with her father. They divorced in 2014 and shared. The document asks the court to set child support to zero and adjust the custody of natalie to equal shared placement
Her mother and father, mellissa and jeff rupnow, first married in 2011, two years after they had natalie, who had recently started using the first name samantha
