Michelle Troconis guilty on all counts

Venezuelan socialite Michelle Troconishas been found guilty of helping her now-deceased boyfriend cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Connecticut mom of five Jennifer Dulos.

Troconis, 50, was found guilty on all counts Friday morning over her role in the May 2019 death of her then-boyfriend Fotis Dulos’ ex-wife, Jennifer Dulos, NBC Connecticut reported.

The six-person jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon in Stamford, Connecticut on charges including conspiracy to commit murder, evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. Troconis had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Over the 27-day trial, prosecutors and defense attorneys spent weeks presenting two separate accounts of what happened the day Jennifer Dulos disappeared and was killed.

During the trial, prosecutors detailed how Fotis Dulos, a luxury home builder originally from Greece, attacked his wife at her New Canaan home and drove off with her body. The couple, thick in a struggle over who would get custody of their five children in their divorce, were often at odds, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors described, Troconis, the father’s live-in girlfriend, as angry and fed up over the divorce case, and said she knew about his plans to kill his ex-wife and had helped him cover it up.

“Jennifer is dead, and Fotis and Michelle Troconis intended that to happen,” Assistant State’s Attorney Michelle Manning said. “They agreed to work together to make it happen, and unfortunately they were successful in making it happen. But they got caught. This trial is very simple. It’s about a conspiracy and a coverup.”

Throughout the trial, jurors were presented with a blood-soaked bra and some 30 other bloodied items that investigators say Fotis Dulos allegedly dumped in garbage cans in Hartford, Connecticut after the murder.

Surveillance footage showing Troconis and Fotis Dulos disposing of alleged evidence on the day of Jennifer Dulo’s disappearance was also presented to jurors.

The Dulos family nanny, Lauren Almeida, also claimed to the court that the parents were initially “nice to each other,” but their relationship soured when Jennifer Dulos found out about her husband’s affair with Troconis in March 2017.

Police also testified that they found what appeared to be blood on the black Range Rover found in the victim’s garage.

Meanwhile, Troconis has maintained her innocence, insisting she doesn’t know what happened to Jennifer Dulos and had no idea her boyfriend had done anything wrong when she watched him throw out black garbage bags filled with evidence.

Her attorney called the prosecution’s case speculation and said that they did not prove any of their allegations beyond a reasonable doubt, nor did they prove that Fotis Dulos had killed Jennifer Dulos.

“She did not know that Fotis Dulos planned to harm her,” Troconis’ attorney Jon Schoenhorn told the jury. “The state has made, what I would suggest, are unfounded and unfair assumptions and have speculated that Michelle Troconis had to know what was going on because she was romantically linked with Fotis, that she was somehow involved in this nefarious, murderous plot.

“But that’s not reality,” he added. “That’s more like one of these cable TV movies, scripted movies. It’s not based on the facts that you heard during this trial.”

Troconis did not testify during the nearly month-long trial.

Jennifer Dulos belonged to a wealthy New York family — her father, the late Hilliard Farber, founded a brokerage firm and her aunt was Liz Claiborne. Her body has never been found.

A medical examiner, however, reviewed the blood splattered in her garage and other evidence and said she could not have survived the attack. A judge officially declared Jennifer Dulos dead in October 2023.

Fotis Dulos died in a Bronx hospital on Jan. 30, days after he attempted to take his own life while out of jail on $6 million bail, and a day before he was scheduled to attend another bail hearing.

Police said he waited for Jennifer Dulos to return home after dropping their kids off at school and attacked her in the garage before cleaning up the scene and driving off with her body.

He had denied the charge and claimed he did not kill Jennifer Dulos in his suicide note left at his Farmington home.

The couple’s five children, who are now between 13 and 17, have been with Jennifer Dulos’ mother ever since her disappearance.

Troconis, who is also accused of placing sealed documents on her laptop during the trial for people to see, will have a contempt of court hearing on March 5.

With Post wires.