We don't know that anyone lied. The guy had two ex-wives and a girlfriend. Perhaps they didn't ask enough family members for someone's taste. But as others noted, an objection from one ex-wife doesn't really make that case very strongly.
That wasn't the fact that you stated.
>As I understand it (I read this on Twitter so massive grain of salt etc.) the family concented to this explicitly.
This is the "fact". Half of it is a caveat to take it with a grain of salt.