All the details we know about Joran van der Sloot’s wife, and his many relationships in jail

Taken: Natalee Holloway on Netflix informed us that despite being locked up in prison, killer Joran van der Sloot has found himself a wife. While he hasn’t ever been prosecuted over what happened to Natalee Holloway, he is currently serving 28 years in jail for the murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez. 

In 2012, van der Sloot pleaded guilty to Ramírez’s murder, and was sentenced. He is currently housed at Challapalca prison, a notorious maximum-security facility in Peru. But, he was still able to get married, and have a baby.

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Joran van der Sloot married his wife in 2014

Jordan van der Sloot met Leidy Figueroa, a Peruvian woman, in July 2010. She is an accountant, and had been visiting another inmate at the prison when she first met van der Sloot. 

The couple started their relationship as friends, but things turned romantic between them. In 2014, when Leidy Figueroa was 24, she and a then 26-year-old Joran van der Sloot got married. Their ceremony was held in prison, on July 4th that year. John Barrera, Mayor of Ancón District, presided over the ceremony.

“They became friends and spent a lot of time together in his cell,” van der Sloot’s lawyer said. “Unlike the United States, here in Peru, loved ones or relatives can see inmates inside their jails.”

Shortly after the wedding, Leidy Figueroa told the Daily Mail her new husband was “gentle, sensitive, kind” and “no monster.”

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They share a child together

At the time of their prison wedding, Leidy Figueroa was already heavily pregnant with Joran van der Sloot’s baby. Three months later, on September 28th 2014, the couple welcomed a daughter. Their daughter is called Dushy, which van der Sloot’s attorney has revealed is after the killer’s grandmother. Currently, Dushy is 12-years-old.

Joran van der Sloot and his wife have since got divorced

In May 2023, just months before he confessed to the murder of Natalee Holloway, van der Sloot announced through his attorney that he was getting divorced. It was reported at the time that their relationship had been over already for around a year. 

It was said van der Sloot had ended things with his wife for a “prettier and younger” girlfriend, Eva Pacohuanaco. “Joran had a bunch of girlfriends,” his attorney said, and noted that his client “still writes to girls and they send him pictures.”

It’s been reported that Eva is one of three women “approved for conjugal visits” to Joran van der Sloot. 

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