Billionaire Sumner Redstone sued two of his former girlfriends over the millions of dollars he lavished on them, claiming they committed elder abuse.
The 93-year-old media mogul is seeking more than $150 million in damages from Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland in a complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
“They manipulated and emotionally abused Redstone to get what they wanted - jewelry, designer clothing, real estate in Beverly Hills, New York, and Paris, and money, lots of it,” lawyers for Redstone said in the complaint.
Herzer lived with Redstone from April 2013 until October 2015, for much of that time along with his then-girlfriend Holland, Herzer has said. Redstone cut Herzer out of his will when he evicted her and replaced her as his health-care agent. She had been in line to receive $50 million and his mansion, valued at $20 million.
“By the time Redstone threw Herzer and Holland out of his home, and out his life, last fall, they had taken him for more than $150 million and left him in debt on account of the immense tax obligations triggered by those ’gifts,”’ according to Tuesday’s complaint.
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