The actress has had bit roles in US films such as
"Drag Me To Hell," but is perhaps best known for appearing in the
Mexican soap opera "Eternamente Tuya." Romero and Stuart's lives for
the past year have played out like a soap or telenova, with federal agents
arresting them last April on suspicion of entering a sham marriage.
Several
former acquaintances testified against the pair at a trial last summer, but the
couple have maintained they love each other but their marriage fell apart
partially because their courtship was so quick. Federal prosecutors presented
evidence that the couple didn't live together as they stated on immigration
forms, dated other people and essentially lived separate lives. In a court
filing in advance of Romero's sentencing, a prosecutor said Romero apparently
lied when she testified in her own defense at trial.
But ultimately the charges the pair are admitting guilt
to are minor. Romero admitted lying when she wrote that Ross and her mother
"hung out all the time." Ross, a musician and restaurant worker,
admitted he lied when he said he and Romero lived together.
