Florida man's former escort wife tried hiring a hit man: 'I was praying it wasn't her'

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Mike Dippolito wasn’t that surprised when he learned from investigators that his then-wife, Dalia Dippolito, was trying to hire a hit man to kill him with the help of a former lover.

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“I knew it,” Dippolito told Fox News. “I couldn’t catch her doing anything. But I had my eye on her and I had a good suspicion… I’m not oblivious to what’s going on around me, but who wants to immediately think it’s your girl or your wife? That’s just not a natural reaction… But I was praying it wasn’t her.”

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Dippolito is aware that his story is unusual, even from the beginning. Before his newlywed spouse, now 36, was trying to have him killed, the pair met in October 2008 while she was working as a professional escort.

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“I did order an escort,” Dippolito admitted. “It was weird. I had a connection with her immediately. She was uncomfortable, I was uncomfortable. She’s doing something she shouldn’t be doing and I’m doing something I shouldn’t be doing. But we still had that moment where it was just two regular people getting along. And there was a connection. It was more than what we were doing.”

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“After the second time we met, we got along extremely well," he continued. "It seemed like we had the same goals in mind. I was heading towards doing things I’ve been trying to do and she told me she was a real estate agent. Everything was just going well, or so it seemed.”

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Dalia told former lover Mohamed Shihadeh she wanted her husband dead and was ready to hire a hit man to do the deed. A concerned Shihadeh then contacted Boynton Beach Police to reveal Dalia’s plot.

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Dalia wound up meeting a hit man – who actually was an undercover cop – and insisted she was “like 5,000 percent sure” she wanted Dippolito gone for good. Dalia agreed to pay the undercover officer, Widy Jean, $7,000. She also discussed various plots before Jean said he would kill her husband at the couple’s home, making it look like a botched burglary while she was at the gym.

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