Last summer, after awaiting trial in a county jail for more than two years, the woman, Angelika Graswald, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of criminally negligent homicide. She has since wrangled in court with the family of the victim, Vincent Viafore, over his life insurance policy. Under its terms, she was to receive $250,000.

Graswald and Viafore, who had shared an apartment in Poughkeepsie, New York, had each been married twice before.

In a statement, her lawyers reiterated their belief that Viafore’s death was an accident, and that she was the victim of “unlawful police conduct that produced a patently false confession.”

But rather than endure a painful trial, Graswald and the Viafore family agreed Monday that Graswald would “receive a confidential financial settlement.” Graswald, a native of Latvia who came to the United States years ago as an au pair, will not pursue an appeal and the victim’ family will not bring a wrongful death claim against her.

Relatives of Viafore, who was 46 at the time of his death, could not be immediately reached for comment.

The case had generated international publicity, with the central enigma of what transpired on the cold, choppy river on April 19, 2015, as well as odd and lurid details that emerged afterward.

Graswald posted photos of herself on social media in the days after Viafore capsized and drowned, doing cartwheels and smiling broadly. And she said in interviews that he had pressured her into having threesomes with other women.

By pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide last July, Graswald acknowledged that she removed the plug from Viafore’s kayak and that she was cognizant of the weather conditions on the Hudson, but did not intend to kill him, according to her lawyers. “This was a case of negligence,” her lawyer, Richard Portale, said at the time.

Prosecutors had planned to show that Graswald had plotted to murder her fiance; if found guilty, she could have faced life in prison. Instead, she was released months after her guilty plea.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Lisa W. Foderaro © 2018 The New York Times