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Several developments have hit the 'Love After Lockup' franchise: star Amber Eggers died at 41 from acute liver failure on September 3; Michael Simmons was released from jail last week but faces eviction risk with girlfriend Maria and their four children; Chance Pitt's fiancée Alyssa Moore was arrested in Ohio on DUI and other charges; and Monique Robinson's partner Titus was released from an Ohio prison. The cluster of news underscores the franchise's long-running pattern of cast members' legal and personal struggles playing out in public.