Steve Cain filed for divorce in April, citing “irreconcilable differences” in his San Diego Superior Court petition.
Except for the length of the marriage — their 32nd anniversary was last week — and the fact no children are involved, the filing is unremarkable. But his wife’s name makes the case compelling.
It’s Gina Champion-Cain.
The one-time real-estate-and-restaurant wonder woman and charity maven — named a 2013 “Woman of Distinction” by San Diego Woman Magazine and having a day named in her honor — is serving a 15-year prison sentence in a minimum-security camp in the East Bay town of Dublin.
Her blockbuster crime made international headlines: a nearly $400 million Ponzi scheme defrauding hundreds of investors. San Diegans Barbara Bry and her husband, Neil Senturia, are publishing a book titled “I Did It” on her career next month.
Steve Cain, a founder of the binational firm Pacific Pulp Molding, has not been accused of wrongdoing. In fact, Champion-Cain kept secret her criminal acts from him, she suggested in a January deposition.
But according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report, the court-appointed receiver was able to recover $1.3 million from Cain, involving the “refinancing of the couple’s family home in Old…
