Dominican communicator Karen Yapoort has spoken out about the situation with her husband, former Major League Baseball player Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n, and confirmed that the separation process was already underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to information provided by her legal representation, Yapoort was the one who initially requested to pursue a divorce by mutual consent<\/strong>, with the process reportedly beginning more than a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After 12 years together and with children in common, Yapoort said she will refrain from publicly discussing Encarnaci\u00f3n or the differences between them out of respect for her family, especially their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The communicator decided to address the situation after a video began circulating on social media alongside rumors about an alleged incident that raised concern among relatives, friends and people close to the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yapoort said several people contacted her after seeing information about alleged gunshots and a situation she described as \u201cugly\u201d and \u201chorrible.\u201d She reassured them that she and her family are safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone who knows us knows, God forbid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yapoort said she does not know where the rumors originated and questioned how the situation had unfolded. \u201cI think that this time things got a little out of hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She added that she will become involved in the process to help clarify what happened and determine what may be behind the information that began circulating, while urging people to remain calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yapoort concluded by asking people to pray for the situation to be clarified and thanked those who reached out out of concern for her and her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dominican communicator Karen Yapoort has spoken out about the situation with her husband, former Major League Baseball player Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n, and confirmed that the separation process was already underway. According to information provided by her legal representation, Yapoort was the one who initially requested to pursue a divorce by mutual consent, with the process reportedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216,5],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-522970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","category-entertainment","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2c30","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_5310.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News","Entertainment"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/IMG_5310.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}