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Ilhan Omar files for divorce

By Caitlin Yilek
Published October 7, 2019 1:36pm ET
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Ilhan Omar files for divorce
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as she joins Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to call for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Rep. Ilhan Omar has pulled the plug on her marriage amid rumors that she was having an extramarital affair.

Omar filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi on Friday in Hennepin County District Court, according to reports. She submitted the divorce papers on her 37th birthday, citing an ”irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship.”

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