Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers.Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal
Aaron Phypersis being sued for alleged fraud and breach of oral contract.
A lawsuit against Phypers, who is married to actressDenise Richards, was filed on Nov. 13, 2024, accusing him of violating a verbal agreement regarding treatment at his Malibu wellness center. Rupert Perry is suing Phypers on behalf of his late wife, Elina Katsioula-Beall, who Phypers saw at his center for her cancer in 2023.
It continues: “[Phypers] claimed that the treatment had a 98% success rate and he was so confident in it that, if it did not work, he would refund to Ms. Katsioula-Beall and Mr. Perry fifty percent (50%) of the money they to him for the treatment.”
Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers.Gabriel Olsen/Getty
“[Phypers] ignored her request and instead proposed that she undergo another round of treatment,” Perry alleges, going on to claim their future requests for the money on Feb. 8, 2024, March 7, 2024 and March 29, 2024 all went ignored.
Given that Katsioula-Beall’s cancer only worsened, Perry says her estate is entitled to the reimbursement Phypers promised as a condition of the treatment.
“[Phypers’] aforementioned misconduct was intentional, willful, and done for the purpose of depriving Plaintiff of property and/or legal rights or otherwise causing injury,” Perry alleges in the docs while requesting a jury trial. “This despicable conduct subjected Plaintiff to cruel and unjust hardship in conscious disregard of his rights.”
Phypers has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit, and it is unclear if Phypers’ wellness center, called Quantum 360, is still in business.
PEOPLE has reached out to Phypers for comment.
Aaron Phypers and Denise Richards.Steve Granitz/WireImage
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Phypers’ wellness center has been a topic of conversation in the past — it is where he and Richards first met.During a 2020 episode ofThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,when Richards was a cast member, the women questioned what Phypers did for a living, but his answer only confused them more.
“Everything you’ve been taught about how diseases process and stuff works is not true,” he started before pausing to say: “I have to be careful.”
Speaking in a quieter tone, Richards reminded him, “We already have people following us, be careful.”
He then explained how his clinic viewed cancer: “Do you want to know why cancer comes in? Because it’s protecting you of an infection your immune system did not respond to and you would have died in 12 hours. It’s your best friend that protected you from something that’s going to shoot you in the head with a bullet. That’s what cancer is. I’ll prove it all day long,” he said. “We can split an atom with sound, cause a nuclear explosion, kill people. You can’t figure out if it’s cancer?”
source: people.com
