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Britani Bateman is being accused of stealing $100,000 from a sick relative.
In a newly filed civil lawsuit in opposition to 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 fact star received’t pay her again, although Sandra “doesn’t have ample earnings” 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 grievance, filed on Could 6 and obtained by Daily Mail on Could 26, acknowledged, noting that Britani had used the $100,000 for “her personal private profit” after it was deposited 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 As Sandra alleged, Britani “urged” her to take action with the understanding that she might “request it’s withdrawn at anytime and it could be returned to her with out objection.”
Sandra additionally added over $200,000 extra to the belief with the intention of constructing herself a residence on Britani’s property in Utah.
However after Sandra’s legal professional 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 he or she “mentioned one thing to the impact of, ‘I don’t know why not.’”
The legal professional 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 of reside out her life in a semi-comfortable means.”
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 grievance, it’s acknowledged that Sandra desires the $100,000 again “plus curiosity on the statutory prescribed charge,” beginning on the time the switch was made in 2021. She additionally desires Britani to pay her legal professional 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 according to the events’ historic method.”
Earlier than their cut up, the couple shared three companies, together with their actual property growth firm, Starwood Group, their manufacturing firm, Pure Productions, and their building enterprise, Millcreek Builders.
Britani has additionally claimed that John, who she divorced in 2023 after greater than six years of marriage, prompted her “extreme emotional misery” by demanding intercourse a number of instances 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 legal professional, Randy S. Keste, denied any wrongdoing with a assertion to the Every day Mail.
“This is only one of many vexatious instances for which Ms. Underwood has had the impetus, typically making false and exaggerated claims. At the very least three prior instances which she was behind have already been dismissed,” he famous.
The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis season six is predicted to premiere on Bravo someday later this 12 months.
