Victoria Goodwin Apologizes to Her Reality Star Ex for Trying to Murder Him

  • Reality star Aaron Goodwin on Thursday saw his ex-wife for the first time since she plotted to kill him
  • The occasion was Victoria Goodwin’s sentencing for felony conspiring to commit murder
  • They did not reconcile

Reality TV star Aaron Goodwin and his former wife, Victoria Goodwin, saw each other in person for the first time Thursday since was arrested for plotting his murder-for-hire in March. The occasion was her sentencing for the crime in a Las Vegas courtroom.

Victoria Goodwin appears in court on April 8. She was sentenced on Thursday for conspiring to murder her famous husband. (Image: CourtTV)

Victoria, 32, will serve three and seven-and-a-half years in state prison as part of a deal she previously copped for pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. (As part of the deal, a separate charge of soliciting murder was dropped.)

“I’m so immensely sorry for the pain and anxiety I’ve caused you and the betrayal you undoubtedly and rightfully feel by my actions,” Victoria told her ex-husband in court before Clark County judge Nadia Krall read her sentence. “I need you to know that I will always hold love for you. I genuinely pray you find your joy and peace again, and I will bow out of your life forever to hopefully ease that process.

Victoria and Aaron Goodwin are seen together in less complicated times. Aaron is one of three investigators who back up star Zak Bagans on “Ghost Adventures.” The 17-year-old supernatural reality show currently airs on the Discovery Channel. (Image: Instagram/Victoria Goodwin)

“I’m sorry I broke us, and I’m consumed with regret every day. My absolute promise to you is that you’ll never see or hear from me.”

Police said Goodwin conspired to hire a hitman with the help of Grant Amato, a Florida prisoner. They alleged that Victoria promised Amato — an inmate serving life in a Florida prison for murdering his parents and brother in 2019 — $11.5K to have Aaron killed.

Aaron, who filed for divorce a week after his ex-wife’s arrest, also spoke on Thursday. And he did not seem in a forgiving mood.

“This has led me into fear of my life,” he told the judge. “I’ve hired … armed security for weeks, not knowing it was over or not a lot, always looking over my shoulder and having to go through therapy and even trying to understand any of it.

“It’s like a heartbreak no one should go through in life. I can’t trust anything anymore. I cry every day. I feel so alone … I didn’t know about any of the murder plot, hit man or the blackmail until the detectives told me after she was arrested.

“Now behind bars she’s trying to manipulate through lawyers and trying to silence me and not come here today.”

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

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