It's done. Jessi Draper and Jordan Ngatikaura, whose marriage played out across seasons of Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, have signed off on their divorce.
TMZ reported Thursday's paperwork closed the chapter, though the settlement terms and final judgment haven't been made public. Neither Jessi nor Jordan has responded to requests for comment, per the outlet.
The split has been a long time coming, at least by reality TV clock. Jordan filed for divorce back in March after six years of marriage, a filing that reportedly blindsided Jessi. She said as much on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast a week later, telling Cooper her "heart sunk" because the couple had agreed to tell their children together before anything went to paper, including Jordan's 13-year-old daughter. That conversation, she said, hadn't happened yet.
The backstory here is messier than a standard reality breakup. Jordan's filing came after Jessi admitted, on camera, to an emotional affair with Vanderpump Villa's Marciano Brunette during the show's third season. The timing of the divorce also landed just months after the pair had bought a Utah house together, a roughly seven-thousand-square-foot place reportedly worth over two million dollars, with six bedrooms, a gym, a sauna and indoor courts for pickleball and basketball. Whatever happens to that property hasn't been addressed in either report.
Both have since moved forward, publicly and separately.
Jessi has been seeing Marciano, the same Vanderpump Villa star from the emotional-affair storyline. In May, the two showed up together at the American Music Awards, which got people talking. Jessi told People at the event she was single and "just spending time" with him. "I'm going through a divorce, so I'm not trying to be in anything serious," she said. "We had a connection, so we're just revisiting that. And he's really been there for me. He knows my history, what I've been through, and we're having fun right now."
Jordan, for his part, has recently been linked to Jillian Brooke, according to Extra TV.
The two married in 2020 after a relationship that had already seen its share of breakups and reconciliations before this one stuck. Season three of the show leaned hard into the fallout, and given how much of their marriage played out on camera, it's a fair bet the divorce itself, or at least the emotional wreckage around it, shows up in whatever season comes next. Neither Hulu nor the show has commented on that.
For now, the paperwork is signed, the house sits in limbo, and both parties appear to have quietly, or not so quietly, moved on.





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