Denise Richards' husband Aaron Phypers accused of fraud in Malibu wellness center lawsuit

Denise Richards' husband, Aaron Phypers, is facing legal action.

The Southern California-based businessman, who also goes by Aaron Cameron and frequently appears on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alongside his wife, has been accused of fraud and breaching oral contract in a new lawsuit.

The complaint, which has been reviewed by Entertainment Weekly, was filed on Nov. 13 by Rupert Perry, who claims that Phypers promised to reimburse the plaintiff's now-deceased wife, Elina Katsioula-Beall, with half of the $126,000 she paid for unsuccessful treatment at his Malibu wellness center, Quantum 360 Club.

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A representative for Perry declined to comment on the case. A representative for Phypers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It is unclear if the business, also known as Q360, is still operational.

The complaint claims that Katsioula-Beall met with Phypers around June 2023 after she was diagnosed with sarcoma cancer in 2019. Katsioula-Beall wanted to explore alternative treatments after traditional medicine proved unsuccessful, and the document alleges that Phypers pitched a stem cell treatment that had a 98-percent success rate.

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The complaint also claims that Phypers told Katsioula-Beall and Perry that if the treatment didn't work, he would reimburse them $63,000, or half of the cost of the procedures. The document later accuses the defendant of having "no intention of honoring the agreement" at the time that he offered the reimbursement.

Perry's suit alleges that Phypers arranged multiple rounds of stem cell treatments for Katsioula-Beall that ultimately didn't work, so she requested the $63,000 reimbursement on three separate occasions before she died in May 2024. The plaintiff accuses Phypers of ignoring all three of his late wife's requests and of acknowledging the unpaid sum in a June phone call.

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Perry is seeking general, specific, and punitive damages, plus legal fees.

Phypers, who started dating Richards in 2017 before they married the following year, caused some confusion among Housewives viewers (and castmates) when he discussed his business in a 2020 episode of the show.

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"I break down stuff so you can all heal you — I don’t heal anybody, by the way. I remove blocks, discord, information," he said, also 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 protective measure in a person's body, "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. 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."

Richards previously attempted to explain her husband's work as "light and sound therapy" in a 2019 episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show. "How he described what is going on is Ella Fitzgerald sings and breaks glass, right? The frequency breaks that. So frequency can also break down different things going on. It's not cuckoo weird s---. It's like been around for hundreds of years, holistic medicine, all over the world. It's different for every person."

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