Billionaire heiress and TV star husband swindled close friend out of $2M in sneaky real estate scam: suit
A former reality TV star and his billionaire heiress wife allegedly scammed a close friend after begging him for a $2 million loan and then reneging on a repayment agreement, a new lawsuit claims.Brendan Fitzpatrick, 37 — a former “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” star who has also been accused of orchestrating a wide-ranging Ponzi scheme — made “desperate pleas” to his wealthy pal Max Jan Fowles-Pazdro to fund a deposit for a real estate project in the United Kingdom, according to the suit.After securing the cash, Fitzpatrick pledged to begin repaying the loan within six weeks, but failed to fork over a dime in the two years since, the lawsuit adds.Instead, Brendan and his wife Chloe, the daughter of a Canadian billionaire, continued “to live — and present themselves to others as living — in the lap of luxury,” according to the suit.Court records highlighted a social media post showing the pair cuddling on a yacht cruising on the Mediterranean.Fowles-Pazdro claims the Fitzpatricks promised him and his wife, Parisa, on a variety of occasions that the money would be repaid — even saying they would reach into the pockets of Chloe’s billionaire mother, Sophie, the daughter of former Power Corporation of Canada chairman Paul Desmarais.“We will absolutely have this resolved tomorrow,” a communication from the Fitzpatricks to the couple read, according to the suit.“[I]f not I will be borrowing from my mother in law ….
We get funds by 2 or I will get them from her.I will say it’s life or death.”“We are good hang on,” another note said, according to the suit.
“We’ve waited this long.We can hang tight for a little more hours.”Yet another repayment promise saw the Fitzpatricks call the Fowles-Pazdros “family,” assuring the money would be paid back soon, the complaint says.The Fitzpatricks even allegedly resorted to claiming they would pay them back $4 million, double what they loaned them.
That money never materialized, accord...