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Britani Bateman is being accused of stealing $100,000 from a sick relative.
In a newly filed civil lawsuit towards the 53-year-old Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis forged member, Sandra Underwood, 87, the mom of Britani’s ex-husband, John Scott Underwood, claims that after loaning Britani the cash in 2021 throughout a time of want, the truth star received’t pay her again, although Sandra “doesn’t have ample revenue” to cowl her dwelling prices and medical bills.
“Britani willfully, maliciously and thru deliberately fraudulent conduct, additionally transformed Plaintiff’s funds and now refuses to repay the funds,” the civil criticism, filed on Might 6 and obtained by Each day Mail on Might 26, acknowledged, noting that Britani had used the $100,000 for “her personal private profit” after it was deposited right into a belief fund.
In line with the report, Sandra added the funds to a belief arrange by Britani’s father, Melvin Merrill Martin, which named Britani as a trustee and beneficiary, after making a revenue on the sale of her former residence. As Sandra alleged, Britani “urged” her to take action with the understanding that she might “request it’s withdrawn at anytime and it will be returned to her with out objection.”
Sandra additionally added over $200,000 extra to the belief with the intention of constructing herself a house on Britani’s property in Utah.
However after Sandra’s lawyer fired off a letter to Britani in March, demanding the $100,000 be returned, Britani failed to reply. Within the letter, it was acknowledged that Britani “implicitly agreed” that Sandra was entitled to the cash, and she or he “stated one thing to the impact of, ‘I don’t know why not.’”
The lawyer additionally requested that Britani, who was added to the RHOSLC forged in 2024 for season 5, have “easy decency and morality” to pay again the $100,000 so Sandra would “be capable to stay out her life in a semi-comfortable method.”
In the meantime, as she flaunted her wealth on social media, Britani claimed her financial institution accounts had been “drained” by her ex-husband and accused him of reducing her off from their joint companies.
In her criticism, it’s acknowledged that Sandra desires the $100,000 again “plus curiosity on the statutory prescribed price,” beginning on the time the switch was made in 2021. She additionally desires Britani to pay her lawyer charges and different prices, together with as much as 3 times the quantity of her losses.
In different information, Britani has additionally accused John of being non-compliant to a Home Relations Injunction, alleging an “unauthorized expenditure of enterprise funds on private bills, failure so as to add Britani to accounts associated to the companies of the events, unauthorized draining of the account of the events’ enterprise and failure to function the companies in line with the events’ historic method.”
Earlier than their break up, the couple shared three companies, together with their actual property growth firm, Starwood Group, their manufacturing firm, Pure Productions, and their development enterprise, Millcreek Builders.
Britani has additionally claimed that John, who she divorced in 2023 after greater than six years of marriage, precipitated her “extreme emotional misery” by demanding intercourse a number of occasions per day and different “controlling” conduct, together with “dictating what clothes, make-up, fragrance, and different magnificence merchandise Britani might and couldn’t put on or use, each out and in of his presence.”
In response to Britani’s claims, nevertheless, John’s lawyer, Randy S. Keste, denied any wrongdoing with a press release to the Each day Mail.
“This is only one of many vexatious circumstances for which Ms. Underwood has had the impetus, typically making false and exaggerated claims. At the least three prior circumstances which she was behind have already been dismissed,” he famous.
The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis season six is anticipated to premiere on Bravo someday later this yr.
