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Denise Richards’ husband, Aaron Phypers, is facing legal action.
The Southern California-based businessman, also known as Aaron Cameron, makes frequent appearances The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Along with his wife, he was charged with fraud and breach of oral contract in a new lawsuit.
The complaint, which was previously reviewed Entertainment WeeklyIt was filed on November 13 by Robert Perry, who claims that Phypers promised to compensate the plaintiff’s now-deceased wife, Elena Catsiola Bell, for half of the $126,000 she paid for unsuccessful treatment at his Malibu health center, Quantum 360 Club.
A representative for Perry declined to comment on the case. A Phypers representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It is unclear whether the company, also known as Q360, is still in business.
The complaint alleges that Catsiola-Bell met Vipers around June 2023 after she was diagnosed with sarcoma in 2019. Catsiola-Bell wanted to explore alternative treatments after conventional medicine proved unsuccessful, and the document alleges that Vipers offered a stem cell treatment that worked. 98 percent success rate.
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The complaint also alleges that Phypers told Katsioula-Beall and Perry that if the treatment didn’t work, he would reimburse them $63,000, or half the cost of the procedures. The document later accuses the defendant of having “no intention of honoring the agreement” at the time he offered payment.
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Perry’s lawsuit alleges that Phypers arranged multiple rounds of stem cell treatments for Catsiola-Bell that were ultimately unsuccessful, so she demanded $63,000 in repayment on three separate occasions before her death in May 2024. The plaintiff accuses Phypers of ignoring all three of his demands. Wife’s late requests and acknowledgment of unpaid amount in June phone call.
Perry is seeking general, specific and punitive damages, as well as legal fees.
Vipers, who began dating Richards in 2017 before they married the following year, caused some confusion among people. Housewives viewers (and his colleagues) when he discussed his work on a 2020 episode of the show.
“I’m breaking things down so you can all be healed – by the way, I’m not healing anyone. I’m removing blocks, disagreements, and information.” He saidAlso claiming that there are “people following me all the time” as a result of his work.
In the same episode, he described cancer as a preventive measure in the human body, “Do you want to know why cancer comes? Because it protects you from an infection to which your immune system did not respond and you would have died within 12 hours.” Your best friend is the one who protected you from something that’s going to put a bullet in your head, that’s cancer, and I’ll prove it all day long.
Richards previously tried to explain her husband’s work as “light and sound therapy” in a 2019 episode of the show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after show. “How he described what’s happening is, is Ella Fitzgerald singing and breaking glass, right? Frequency breaks that. So frequency can also break different things that happen. It’s not weird—. It’s been around for hundreds of years. Years, holistic medicine, “Around the world it varies from person to person.”