{"id":49285,"date":"2025-11-23T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49285\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:16:20","slug":"parents-of-toddler-who-plunged-to-her-death-out-of-open-cruise-ship-window-have-divorced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49285\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of toddler who plunged to her death out of open cruise ship window have divorced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of a toddler who plunged to her death from an open cruise ship window have divorced.<\/p>\n<p>Alan and Kimberly Wiegand split in September 2024, public records show.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s 18-month-old daughter, Chloe, was killed in July 2019 after her grandfather Salvatore Anello raised her in front of an open window on Royal Caribbean\u2019s Freedom of the Seas while it was docked in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The child slipped out of Anello\u2019s grasp and plummeted 11-stories to her death, striking the concrete floor of the Pan  American dock II in San Juan.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Wiegand tragically fell to her death out of an open cruise ship window in 2019. Courtesy of lawyer Michael Winkleman<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly, a lawyer, is now dating Dustin Wilson, an air-conditioning repairman and father of three with a criminal record that includes felony burglary and breaking and entering charges, according to the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Alan Wiegand, a South Bend, Indiana police officer, was honored by the department in April with a \u201cLifesaving Award\u201d after he and two other officers administered CPR to an unconscious 18-year-old man, saving his life, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SouthBendPD\/photos\/there-seems-to-be-a-trend-taking-over-our-midnight-shift-right-now-that-will-cer\/972214065088492\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police department\u2019s Facebook page. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither Alan Wiegand, Kim Wiegand, Anello nor Wilson responded to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The baby\u2019s father Alan was awarded for saving a teenager\u2019s life in April.  South Bend Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Chloe was on vacation with her parents, two siblings and both sets of grandparents when she was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiegand\u2019s sued Royal Carribean, claiming that poorly designed windows and a lack of warning signs were responsible for Chloe\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Officials claimed that Chloe slipped through Anello\u2019s arms \u2014 but a family attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/09\/family-of-tot-who-fell-to-death-on-cruise-denies-grandfather-dropped-her\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disputed the allegations<\/a>, and instead said he had placed her on a wooden railing believing the window was closed.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Wiegand is now dating Dustin Wilson, according to a report.  Facebook\/Kim Schultz<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Wiegand and Alan Wiegand divorced in Sept. 2024.  YouTube\/The Straits Times<\/p>\n<p>Chloe had asked her step-grandfather to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/10\/28\/grandfather-charged-in-death-of-toddler-who-fell-from-cruise-ship-window\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lift her up<\/a> so she could bang on the glass like at her brother\u2019s hockey games, the attorney had said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially her grandfather lifts her up and puts her on a railing and where thinks that there is glass there because it\u2019s clear, but it turns out there was no glass there,\u201d attorney Michael Winkleman said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The couple ultimately withdrew their case in December 2023, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a toddler who plunged to her death from an open cruise ship window have divorced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4207,16004,1015,318,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-49285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-cruises","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-freak-accidents","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}