This escort will get to maintain the cash and run.
A love-starved Massive Apple widow who plunked down almost $6 million for the companies of a male escort knew what she was stepping into and received’t be getting her a refund, a New York decide has dominated.
Marianne Flippo, 49, sued hunk-for-hire Greggory Starr claiming he coerced her to open a joint checking account after hooking up with the gigolo by way of an escort service and scammed her out of the cash, together with transferring greater than $1 million to an off-shore account within the Center East.
However in a two-page ruling launched final week, Supreme Court docket Justice Lyle Frank dominated that the lonely widow “failed to ascertain entitlement to the aid sought,” and “didn’t show irreparable hurt.”
“The allegations within the criticism contain a contract, to which defendants have submitted audio recordings of what seems to be plaintiff’s figuring out and keen acknowledgement of the contents thereof,” he wrote.
Flippo, the widow of Chad Flippo, the inventor of the sport “Roblox” who died in August 2024, attached with Starr by way of the male escort service, Cowboys 4 Angels, beginning a two-year fling.
In courtroom papers, the widow claimed the escort service and the gigolo siphoned hundreds of thousands from her in the course of the steamy affair — which Starr described as real love in courtroom papers.
The chiseled gigolo, who underwent in depth cosmetic surgery to attain his icy stare and sculpted abs, in keeping with graphic movies, even mentioned the 2 talked of marriage.
However Flippo claims it was all a rip-off.
“I now understand I used to be silly,” a mortified Flippo wrote in her Manhattan Supreme Court docket submitting.
Flippo’s lawyer, Larry Hutcher, mentioned at a courtroom listening to final month that Starr fled to Dubai together with his consumer’s money, a declare the 38-year-old escort claimed was simply an abroad trip.
In an announcement Sunday, his legal professionals, Jeremy Feigenbaum and Todd Spodek, hailed Frank’s resolution.
“The ruling confirms what we’ve mentioned from the outset: transferring funds between accounts bearing Gregg’s personal title just isn’t concealment, and suspicion just isn’t an alternative choice to proof,” they mentioned.
“The Court docket rejected the trouble to show an extraordinary paper path into one thing sinister,” the attorneys added. “Two consenting adults entered right into a bona fide settlement, and a later change of coronary heart doesn’t erase the legitimacy of both the connection or the contract.”
