RHOM’s Lenny accuses Lisa of overspending on designer items
Lenny Hochstein is ramping up his ex-wife Lisa Hochstein’s lavish shopping amid his divorce from The Real Housewives of Miami star.
Lenny Hochstein calls Lisa Hochstein and accuses her The Real Housewives of Miami Star to spend hundreds of thousands on designer items. Lenny and Lisa are caught up in a messy divorce battle that plays out in the press and throughout Season 5. Lenny filed for divorce back in May after reporting he was dating a new, much younger woman. Since Lisa announced their divorce, she has struggled with Lenny over finances, which she claims he is withholding from her during their separation.
But Lenny takes issue with Lisa’s claims, accusing her of overspending on designer items for herself. According to new documents Lenny filed, he has reduced the American Express card he issues to Lisa to $5,000 a month after she spent $200,000 on lavish items over a five-month period. page six reports. Lenny claims Lisa agreed to the reduced AMEX amount but snuck in a few last-minute purchases just before the limit went into effect. The documents accuse Lisa of “brazenly” spending more than $2,330 on a Louis Vuitton purse, $3,300 at Bergdorf Goodman for a “High fashion purse‘ and $3,500 on ‘fine women’s clothing.“Because of Lisa’s expenses, Lenny thinks the housewife is”acted in bad faith and with fraudulent intent [Lenny]” by accepting the limit only to make lavish purchases behind his back.
Lisa allegedly agreed to the credit card limit
The file gives an example of a time Lisa agreed to accept $10,000 in support from Lenny.along with limited loading rights on the AMEX card,“but went to spend instead”several thousandfor luxury goods with the AMEX that Lenny pays monthly. Lisa and Lenny are trying to reconcile their financial differences. The documents say she agreed to return a purse to Bergdorf Goodman in exchange for $4,300 in cash and checks from Lenny. The Miami plastic surgeon wrote Lisa two checks, each for $12,500 on November 23 and December 1. Lenny’s filing comes weeks after Lisa filed a second spousal support claim, alleging that Lenny had her left no money to look after their two children.
Season 5 captures the decline of Lisa and Lenny’s marriage. She started the season feeling like everything was fine with her husband and he was training to look good for her. But a hot mic moment caught Lenny’s intention to leave Lisa for his new girlfriend. Lenny admitted to a friend that he no longer slept in the same bed as Lisa because it would offend the woman he was dating. Fans already know that the mystery woman is Lenny’s current girlfriend, Katharina Mezapa. Lisa has opened up about how blindsided she was by Lenny’s filing for divorce.
However, the ad came after Lisa had already confronted Lenny and Katharina at a nightclub. The Real Housewives of Miami Season 5 is set to reveal the build-up and fallout between Lisa and Lenny’s divorce. The red flags were visible on the show. For years, fans had said how Lenny appeared to have checked out of the marriage. Now that the divorce is in the works, Lisa is adjusting to life without her wealthy husband, and it looks like she’s having a hard time dealing with it. Lenny may need to do more than limit credit cards to help Lisa stop gorging on designer items.
