Real Housewives of New York ‘star’ Ramona Singer apparently asked her assistant to bill Bravo for some of her more high-end clothing purchases and would then have the woman return the clothes and give her the refund.
According to a Manhattan lawsuit, Singer “asked [Lisa] Taubes to purchase designer clothes for the filming of Ms. Singer’s show and instructed plaintiff to submit receipts to Bravo cable Network for reimbursement” and “then asked Ms. Taubes to return the clothes for refund.” The suit also claims Singer instructed Taubes to “submit fake receipts for reimbursement on clothes that she already owned and demanded plaintiff carry out these tasks.”
The lawsuit did not say how much money in total Singer made from the alleged scam and, as of now, Singer ain’t talking. But apparently this mess occurred because Singer refused to pay her assistant, who then took the story public.
The allegations against Singer were made by an agency called T360, which provided her with an assistant. Singer initially agreed to pay $4,000 a month for up to 20 hours of assistant time, yet Singer allegedly demanded Taubes work more than 40 hours a week without extra compensation, in violation of their contract. Taubes was also forced to walk Singer’s dog— “outside the scope of the agreement”—and was expected to be on call 24/7 to meet the TV personality’s demands.
The suit seeks more than $150,000 in damages and claims that Singer “humiliated” the woman by firing her in the lobby of her building, and then then trying to force her into signing a non-disclosure agreement and when Taubes refused, Singer ALLEGEDLY pushed her.
Ramona Singer, for her part, is playing dumb, saying:
“I have no knowledge of any lawsuit. Her company did some work for my company. The relationship ended, and her company was paid in full for their services.”
Bravo is also not talking.
Huh, maybe Ramona can go to jail for stealing from Bravo and share a cell with her ‘co-star’ LuAnn Drunken de Lesseps.
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