"She asked him to leave the house and he refused"

How on earth could the whole thing have stayed secret for so long? How could he have deceived his wife for so long?

“They always had separate bank accounts,” our source says. “They did not co-mingle their money, and the reason for this that was that Maria felt strongly that if she had her own money she could always walk out the door if something happened. But when you have separate bank accounts it’s very easy to keep secrets from one another.”