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Erika Jayne wants a judge to dismiss the $18 million lawsuit fashion designer Chris Psaila filed against her in 2023.
After Chris, of the Marco Marco fashion house, claimed to have sustained emotional distress and said that his business and reputation were destroyed after the 54-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star falsely accused him of making $800,000 in fraudulent charges on her American Express card, Erika is denying that she worked with the Secret Service to take him down.
In court documents obtained by TMZ on July 6, Erika insisted she never knowingly lied to the authorities about Chris’ supposed misuse of her credit card. Instead, she explained that she had spoken to investigators in regard to concerns she had over Chris’ apparent inability to provide her with receipts for the charges he made from 2015 to 2016.
As RHOBH fans may recall, Erika’s lawyer, Evan Borges, released a statement in regard to the lawsuit Chris filed against her years ago, declaring that his accusations against her were “entirely without merit.”
“Independent federal prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office made the decision to charge plaintiff with crimes, no one else. The notion that Erika controlled the U.S. Government, or for that matter a Fortune 100 company such as American Express, is fantasy,” he stated.
In addition to Chris’ lawsuit against her, Erika was also faced with a similar case from his fellow Marco Marco designer, Marco Morante, who filed his own lawsuit in Florida pertaining to the $800,000 in credit card charges.