With the cast of "Sister Wives" experiencing a surge in their finances, disagreements have arisen regarding how to divide the spoils. It turns out that much of the wild drama surrounding the sale of the family's Coyote Pass property in Flagstaff, Arizona, had its roots in what transpired in Vegas. And it certainly didn't stay there.
When Meri Brown sold the five-bedroom home she lived in outside Sin City, her ex-husband Kody Brown revealed to host Sukanya Krishnan in the second part of TLC's "One-on-One" special on Jan. 18 that "She wanted all the money from it." Kody added, "That's not how our divorce decree went. It was 50/50."
It's not that Meri had pocketed the proceeds. Rather, the mother of 30-year-old Leon had placed all of it on black in Kody's bank account to help him and Robyn Brown purchase the two-acre Arizona home they shared with their children: Dayton, Aurora, Breanna, Solomon, and Ariella. "With my contribution, whatever words he wants to put to it," Meri explained, referencing their disagreement over whether the money was a loan or a gift. "They bought the house that was for them, and then, you know, it doubled in value when they sold it. Yay, them."
After Kody and Robyn—now monogamists since Kody ended his marriages to Meri, Janelle Brown, and Christine Brown—used those profits to buy a new Arizona mansion for $2.1 million in 2024, Meri and Janelle (who also contributed to the first Arizona purchase) reminded them that the initial loan wasn't exactly on the house.
That disagreement bled into the negotiations over the sale of the 14 acres they dubbed Coyote Pass. "When we went to parceling out the property, there were agreements that hadn't been settled," Kody detailed. "Janelle and Meri had gifted money to me and Robyn to purchase Robyn's house. Meri’s house, the proceeds from her house in Las Vegas, were half mine, OK? And so they wanted their 25% of Coyote Pass, but I had put extra money in it. And they wanted to be paid back for their gift for Robyn's house, but I hadn't been compensated. And we couldn't negotiate."
They were able to strike a deal with Janelle, Robyn noted. "She said 100% we were square with her, but Meri hadn't." And while they hashed out the particulars, added the mother of five, "We talked about a non-disclosure because it was like, let's not fight about finances publicly."
To hear Meri tell it, though, she laid down her gloves rather early. "I mean, sure, it would make sense that I would get it," she said of the money from her Las Vegas home. "Because, you know, I'm the only one who lived in it for the majority of the time that we owned it. And I'm the one who made all the payments. But you know what? Your name was on it. So you can have half of it. Like literally, that's how I felt. I'm not going to fight that."
What she was willing to battle over was signing any sort of confidentiality agreement. "I was not OK with it," Meri admitted. "Until we went back and forth a few times on the specific verbiage."
And though things got hairy, the family did eventually sell their Coyote Pass land, with everyone pocketing their share. And Kody told host Sukanya that Meri will have another payday coming soon. Though they've yet to negotiate the particulars, claimed the dad of 18, "I've just told Meri on the phone, 'Hey, listen, we're going to take care of this.' We always intended to take care of it."
As for Meri, she hadn't intended to reveal her benefactor status when it came to Kody and Robyn's home. "This is something that I have consented to never talk about," she shared on the Jan. 18 special. "But we'll talk about it now."
