The Virginia billionaire who left his wife for their former nanny will confront her in a two-day divorce trial, as revealed by the Daily Mail.

Peter Goodwin, heir to a bowling fortune, and his estranged wife Cara, a prominent psychologist and mother to their four children, are preparing for a legal showdown in a Charlottesville courtroom, according to court documents.

The trial, scheduled for August 27, might conclude the contentious battle between the car enthusiast Peter and Cara, who was shocked by the sudden breakup news while holding their newborn daughter at their $9 million home during Christmas 2023.

Daily Mail can also reveal 40-year-old Peter’s bombshell came just months before more lucrative terms in the couple’s prenup would have kicked in for Cara, also 40.

They were married in April 2014 and initially settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before moving to Charlottesville. In the event of a split before 10 years, the agreement stipulates she would get $10million.

But if they remained together after that point ‘before becoming separated’, she should get an extra $1million for each full year beyond ten years. The limit was $50million.

Within days of his announcement, Peter – son of former AMF bowling chain co-owner William Goodwin – was romping at a five-star Florida hotel with the couple’s much younger former nanny Annette Lombard, according to the divorce papers.

The love-struck newbies then swiftly ‘engaged in adulterous acts’ at the exclusive Keswick Hall hotel in Virginia, swanky Wyoming ski resort Jackson Hole and the Goodwins’ home in Palm Beach, Florida, the paperwork adds.

Peter Goodwin, 40, is now set to face off with his clinical psychologist wife, Cara Goodwin, also 40, in a two-day divorce trial after dumping her on Christmas Day amid his extramarital affair

The billionaire heir is accused to have had an affair with their children’s nanny, Annette Lombard (pictured in 2018), 27,  who started working for the ultra-wealthy family in 2019 while she studied at the University of Virginia

Peter has admitted the trysts in other legal paperwork seen by Daily Mail.

Cara, who ticked the box to say she contested her estranged husband’s January 2025 divorce complaint, is fighting for more assets from the marriage in Albemarle County Circuit Court.

Papers show the renowned child clinical psychologist and author had $18,375 in her bank account just before she wed and drove a 2004 Audi A4 worth $7,000. 

She owned $16,000 in Verizon stock and $6,000 in AT&T, with $8,000 remaining on a student loan.

Peter had a 20 percent stake in his family’s Riverside Group – which deals in investment management, hospitality, financing and real estate – worth just over $922million.

In addition, court papers shows he had other assets pushing his worth to just over $1billion.

Cara is still living in the former couple’s Charlottesville estate, which has a dominating hilltop position overlooking manicured country clubs and is accessed by a long and steeply sloping driveway.

When Daily Mail went there to speak with her about the divorce battle, an assistant went back inside the main house to check. She returned to say Cara wasn’t available.

According to Cara’s court filings, after she gave birth to her fourth child with Peter in August  2023 he ‘began expressing strong desire for more independence and time away from his family to focus on his own self-care’

We can also reveal one bitter exchange between the former couple in the mega-money tussle – amid an apparent payout offer way higher than the prenup.

Cara wrote in one message contained in court documents: ‘Did your family find out what really happened and that you were lying to them too?’

Love-cheat Peter replied mockingly: ‘I offered you $45million and a lot of custody for 9 years of marriage.

‘You trounce around your palace with 2 housekeepers and nanny and still think I owe you more. 

‘You can’t even engage in conversation unless it’s 100% what you want.

‘I am far from perfect and have surely made some mistakes. I felt I didn’t like the way you treated me or made me feel. People get divorced because of anger and resentment, not for some one-time thrill.

‘You have no idea how to coparent… instead you threaten me about the schedule. Disparage me. Restrict my time with the kids… stomp on my boundaries.’

The sensational accusations about Peter’s affair were revealed in Cara’s counterclaim for divorce, in which she also alleged he struggled with mental health issues and abused prescription drugs during the marriage.

The court documents allege that Goodwin’s trysts with Lombard took place in hotels, swanky ski resorts and the Goodwins’ home in Palm Beach, Florida; pictured

The couple’s prenup stipulated that Cara would be entitled to receive $10M if they separate after less than 10 years of marriage. If divorce occurs after 10 years, she’d received $10M plus an additional $1M for each year they were married after a decade

She said Lombard, now 27, came into their lives after being hired as an occasional babysitter in 2019 while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia.

The following year she moved in with the family to provide full-time care for the couple’s then two sons and one daughter during the Covid pandemic.

Lombard became such a fixture that the children referred to her as a ‘sister’, said the counterclaim.

Later that year, Goodwin hired her to work for him at the family office and subsequently promoted her to be vice president of one of his finance companies.

But towards the end of 2020, Cara ‘expressed… her growing discomfort regarding his interactions’ with Lombard, which he dismissed.

In August 2023, Cara had the couple’s fourth child. A month later Peter, who enjoys a playboy image, ‘began expressing a strong desire for more independence and time away from his family to focus on his own self-care’.

From then until the fateful Christmas Day, the husband ‘was frequently withdrawn and physically absent’ from Cara and their children.

At the same time he was ‘abusing prescription medication and expressing with increasing frequency concerns about his own mental health’.

Lombard is said to have moved in with the family in 2020, the year after she began working for them. Peter then hired her to work at the family office and later  promoted her to be vice president of one of his finance companies

Cara (pictured), who holds a PhD, is the founder of Parenting Translator, a brand that has more than 135,000 Instagram followers

Peter is the heir to a massive bowling chain called AMF Bowling (pictured), which is father once co-owned

Peter flew to New York City on December 19. 

Three days later his assistant ‘communicated’ to Cara that he wasn’t ‘comfortable seeing or speaking’ with her.

He then emailed Cara saying they should ‘take a break’, with her responding ‘by reaffirming her love for him’.

On December 25, Peter arrived back and told his wife ‘he was done with their relationship while she sat in front of him holding their four-month-old daughter’.

When Cara tried to approach him, ‘he screamed obscenities at her, charged out of the front door towards his vehicle, and recklessly drove at high speed out of the driveway while the parties’ three older children were outside’.

Peter denies screaming crude words and hurtling off at speed in his car in a legal response to the claims.

Cara adds in her document that she repeatedly expressed her love for him in the following days and asked for him to ‘come home to her and the children’.

Instead, she alleges he and Lombard checked into the Four Seasons hotel in Surfside, just north of Miami, on New Year’s Eve – before listing his other ‘adulterous act’ locations.

A profile of Peter on website 10 Past Ten describes him as ‘passionate and serious collector of cars and watches’

Peter’s social media is flooded with photos of watches (pictured) with hefty price tags on them

Peter had garnished his billionaire image with glossy Instagram images of himself at the wheel of classic old racecars and sporting luxury watches. He has nearly 17,000 followers.

A profile on a website called 10 Past Ten, which specializes in selling rare Rolex timepieces, declares: ‘Peter’s a real guy’s guy. A passionate and serious collector of cars and watches.’

Goodwin talks about his own Rolexes in the piece and ironically makes a marital prophesy that is now clearly doomed.

‘I love Rolex watches for two reasons. First, they were built for a purpose and second they were intended to endure,’ he says.

‘Whether it’s a Daytona for racing, Submariner for diving, of GMT for piloting, they have you covered.

‘I am an avid outdoorsman and have my fair share of hobbies, so there is always a watch to come along for the journey and I have never to worry much about damage.’

He concludes: ‘This durability is also what makes a 60-year-old Rolex age so well. I hope in 60 years my wife can say the same about me.’