However, after a bitter divorce in 2001, Karimova took the two children and fled the United States, where she remains wanted for refusing to accede to a court ruling awarding custody of the two children to Maqsudi.
However, after a bitter divorce in 2001, Karimova returned to Uzbekistan with her children. Some sources claim that she remained wanted in the US for refusing to accede to a court ruling awarding custody of the two children to Maqsudi.