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Mauricio Umansky and his sister, Sharon Umansky Benton, are requesting their 81-year-old father, Eduardo Umansky, be placed under a conservatorship.
As the siblings accused Eduardo’s longtime girlfriend of being “verbally and emotionally” abusive, and claimed she had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from him, they told the court that Eduardo was unable to defend himself against the woman’s alleged fraud.
According to court documents obtained by In Touch Weekly on October 9, Mauricio and Sharon asked to be named co-conservators over Eduardo and said his annual gross income was $200,000.
“Over the course of the past few months, [Eduardo’s] girlfriend has become more controlling limiting and regulating who [Eduardo] can visit with. She has begun to isolate him and is trying to get married even though they have been together for twenty years and never decided that they wanted to marry,” the siblings wrote in their filing. “On one occasion, [Mauricio and Sharon] brought their father out to lunch. When his girlfriend learned what happened, she became enraged, verbally and emotionally abusing [Eduardo]. She was livid that she was not consulted before he went to lunch with his children.”
According to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and Buying Beverly Hills alum, his father is “unable to resist undue influence and fraud and has been taken advantage of by his girlfriend” and is “unable to stop this abuse and behavior and is asking for assistance in reigning in this spending.”
“Over the court of the past eighteen months, [Eduardo] and [Mauricio and Sharon] have discovered that she has taken, secreted and appropriated more than $260,000 from [Eduardo] through undue influence, whether physical or emotional and/or fraud,” they wrote. “During this time, [Eduardo] has written more than $260,000 worth of checks to his girlfriend for no reason other than she wanted it. In addition to those checks, there are an additional nearly $100,000 in expenses that have not [been] explained.”
Also in the documents, Mauricio and Shannon confirmed Eduardo was not suffering from a developmental disability and said he would appear in court and testify that he is in support of the conservatorship.
Although the siblings did not name Eduardo’s girlfriend, around this time last year, Eduardo named Simin Tabibnia as his “beautiful girlfriend and partner” in a tribute post on Instagram.
Along with the filing, Eduardo signed a form, confirming he was on board with the conservatorship, and for Mauricio and Sharon to be co-conservators.
The family will appear in court later this month.
In other Mauricio Umansky news, he and estranged wife Kyle Richards, 55, reunited at a wedding with their four daughters, including Kyle’s oldest, Farrah Aldjufrie, 35, and their younger three, Alexia Umansky, 28, Sophia Umansky, 24, and Portia Umansky, 16, over the weekend.
“[Portia Umansky] and I being the bread of this sandwich in a somewhat rare photo of all [four] sisters together. We seem to always be missing one,” Farrah wrote in the caption of her October 7 post on Instagram.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 14 premieres on Bravo this fall.
