{{short description|American businesswoman}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carole Crist | image = File:Carole Crist.jpg | caption = Crist in 2011 | image_size = 150px | office = First Lady of Florida | governor = Charlie Crist | term_label = In role | term_start = December 12, 2008 | term_end = January 4, 2011 | predecessor = Columba Bush | successor = Ann Scott | birth_name = Carole Lynn Oumano | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|10|20}} | birth_place = Roslyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Todd Rome|1993|2006|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Charlie Crist|2008|2017|end=divorced}}}} | children = 2 | alma_mater = Georgetown University (BS) }} '''Carole Lynn Crist''' (née '''Oumano''', formerly '''Rome''') is an American businesswoman and former First Lady of Florida. Crist is the ex-wife of former U.S. Representative and one-term Florida Governor Charlie Crist, having served as First Lady of Florida from December 12, 2008, to January 4, 2011.

==Personal life == Crist was born and raised in Roslyn, New York, a New York City suburb on Long Island. She is the daughter of Margaret and Robert Oumano.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE GOV'S FIANCEE |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2008/07/13/the-gov-s-fiancee/ |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}</ref> Mr. Oumano was the former president of the Franco-American Novelty Company, a family-owned Halloween and costume business.<ref>{{cite news | title= Obituary: Franco-American's Robert Oumano | url=http://www.giftsanddec.com/article/525148-Obituary_Franco_American_s_Robert_Oumano.php | work=Gifts and Decorative Accessories | date=11 January 2001 | access-date=21 January 2014}}</ref> The company was founded in 1910 and was based in Glendale, Queens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=114120936|title=Franco American Novelty Company LLC: Private Company Information|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2018-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111215358/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=114120936 |archive-date=2018-11-11}}</ref> Crist graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in accounting.<ref>[http://www.flgov.com/first_lady Official page of the Carole Crist as the First Lady of the State of Florida] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321192703/http://www.flgov.com/first_lady |date=March 21, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article696253.ece |title=Meet Carole Rome, the Governor's Fiancee. |access-date=2008-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104193248/http://tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article696253.ece |archive-date=2008-11-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Crist has two daughters from her first marriage to Todd Rome.<ref>https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20080713/news/605225857/SH {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507132418/https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20080713/news/605225857/SH |date=2021-05-07 }} Two very public figures figure out a private life</ref>

She married then-Florida governor Charlie Crist on December 12, 2008, at the First Methodist Church of St. Petersburg.<ref name="dec08">{{cite news|last=Scott|first=Anna|title=Rome-Crist wedding shows how etiquette has changed|publisher=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=2008-12-10|url=http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081210/NEWS/812100949|access-date=2009-06-13}}</ref>

After nine years of marriage, in February 2017, Mr. Crist filed for divorce, stating, "I think the world of Carole. She's an amazing person. It just didn't work out for us, I wish all the best for her."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/02/24/report-charlie-crist-and-wife-get-divorce/98369640/|title=Report: Charlie Crist and wife to get divorce|website=The News-Press|language=en|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usanews.net/politics/carole-crist-i-will-always-love-charlie-h3923.html|title=Carole Crist: I will always love Charlie|last=USANews.net|language=tr|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>

Crist currently resides in Fisher Island, Florida.

==Career== After her father's death in 2000, Crist ran Franco-American Novelty for the next six years. She coined the slogan ''"Where Fashion Meets Halloween"'' and changed the focus of the company to more figure-flattering, high-fashion costumes. In 2006, she handed over control of Franco-American to her sister, Michele Oumano Powell, and in January, 2013 resigned from her management position. In 2012, Crist started a new Halloween Costume business in St. Petersburg, Florida called Goddessey, L.L.C., which she sold in early 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goddessey.com/store/ |title=Home page |access-date=2014-04-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418234537/http://goddessey.com/store/ |archive-date=2014-04-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Goddessey, L.L.C|url=http://www.florida-companies-info.com/goddessey-l-l-c-1p6i7/|publisher=Florida Companies|access-date=18 April 2014|archive-date=19 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011924/http://www.florida-companies-info.com/goddessey-l-l-c-1p6i7/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During her husband's 2016 campaign for Congress, Crist served as acting campaign director, and played a significant role in fundraising.

Crist is currently founder and CEO of CLC Global Advisors, a philanthropic and entrepreneurial venture focused on impact investing.<ref name="clc">{{cite news|title=Artists, Celebrities, and Business Moguls Unite in Miami Beach during Art Basel Week for Common Cause: to help Rebuild Puerto Rico|publisher=Impact Wealth|date=2019-12-10|url=https://impactwealthmagazine.com/?p=797|access-date=2019-12-13}}</ref>

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