Wealthy NYC Roblox widow claims male escort scammed her out of $6M: Svengali-like control

The wealthy widow of a “Roblox” inventor claims she got scammed out of an eye-watering $6 million by a predatory male escort, according to a bombshell new lawsuit.Marianne Flippo, 49, contends icy-eyed, silver-haired gigolo Gregg Starr manipulated her by declaring his love — and telling her the only way they could be together was for her to pay out his $10 million contract with an infamous escort agency, the suit alleges.“Unfortunately, I was not capable or perceptive enough to know these statements were false but, since I loved and trusted Starr, I relied on what he said,” Flippo wrote in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing Monday.“I now realize I was foolish.”The grieving Flippo, who suffers from a severe genetic medical condition, met Starr, 38, through Cowboys 4 Angels, an agency that offers “straight elite male companions for women,” according to its website — and was featured in the Showtime reality TV show “Gigolos.”But their unconventional love affair soured, Flippo claims, when Starr and another escort service worker allegedly coerced her into signing an agreement to help him escape his contract after plying her with shots of booze while she was on a new medication, the court papers state.By the time an attorney for Flippo discovered the brazen scheme, she — “under the Svengali-like control of Starr” — had already transferred nearly $6 million to him, while he demanded the remaining $4 million, court papers state.“She now knows that she was the victim of a sinister fraud,” said her attorney Larry Hutcher, of New York law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron.Hutcher, in a court filing, asked a judge to intervene as Starr now allegedly embarks on a wild spending frenzy to “dissipate the stolen funds.”“I now recognize that I was the victim of a horrendous scheme by Starr who is a sociopath who lacks any conscience,” Flippo claimed in an affirmation filed with the court.The 18-page complaint, along with stacks of other fi...