{"id":271897,"date":"2019-04-25T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1035562"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:33:00","slug":"luann-de-lesseps-children-and-ex-husband-drop-lawsuit-against-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/luann-de-lesseps-children-and-ex-husband-drop-lawsuit-against-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Luann de Lesseps&#8217; Children and Ex-Husband Drop Lawsuit Against Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.15099009901\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.163366336634\">\n<p>In the words of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/luann_de_lesseps\">Luann de Lesseps<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;Everything&#8217;s great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what she told&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/andy_cohen\">Andy Cohen<\/a><\/strong> after the&nbsp;<em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em> host brought up some news he had seen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read just tonight that the case involving you and your kids has officially been dropped today,&#8221; he asked the&nbsp;<em>Real Housewives of New York City&nbsp;<\/em>star.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; she answered. &#8220;Everything&#8217;s great. Everything&#8217;s great with my kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.095371669004\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.356241234222\">\n<p>Things didn&#8217;t seem as great last summer when the reality star&#8217;s&nbsp;first husband, Count&nbsp;<strong>Alexandre de Lesseps<\/strong>, and their two kids,&nbsp;<strong>Noel de Lesseps<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Victoria de Lesseps<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/951658\/luann-de-lesseps-sued-by-her-kids-and-ex-husband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a lawsuit against her<\/a> in July 2018 claiming she&nbsp;broke a stipulation in her 2009 divorce settlement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This action arises from Defendant&#8217;s breach of a Stipulation of Settlement and related Judgment of Divorce by her failure to create a trust for the benefit of her children, her conversion of the trust&#8217;s corpus and her present threat to abscond with money derived from the potential sale of the trust corpus and use it to purchase, for herself alone, a luxury home in upstate New York,&#8221; the court documents obtained by E! News stated.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016613\/rs_634x1024-160713132422-634-luann-victoria-de-lesseps.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Luann De Lesseps, Victoria De Lesseps\" alt=\"Luann De Lesseps, Victoria De Lesseps\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Charles Sykes\/Bravo\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"30\">\n<p>The documents stated that Luann never set up a trust for the children as part of the agreement since selling their marital home and purchasing her Sag Harbor, New York home in 2013.&#8221;Defendant has never, since her purchase of the Premises, created the Trust or conveyed to her children, in Trust, an undivided one-half interest in the Premises,&#8221; the court papers read.<\/p>\n<p>The documents further alleged Luann &#8220;threatened&#8221; that she intended to sell the house&nbsp;and purchase a home in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>Her ex and kids wanted the court to order de Lesseps to create the trust, convey to Noel and Victoria in the trust &#8220;an undivided one-half interest&#8221; in the Sag Harbor house &#8220;and render an account as trustee for her children, and petition for judicial settlement of same, on notice to Plaintiffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the most recent season of the Bravo show, de Lesseps admitted to being &#8220;fixed&#8221; on buying a mansion in upstate New York amid her relapse. &#8220;I wanted that house more than anything. I would have sold my soul at that point\u2014that&#8217;s how bad I was,&#8221; she told her friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what spurred her ex and children to drop the lawsuit and whether an agreement was reached privately. E! News has reached out to their attorneys for comment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.205357142857\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.303571428571\">\n<p>As she later revealed in an August 2018 interview, finding out about the lawsuit contributed to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/960000\/luann-de-lesseps-recalls-the-moment-she-broke-her-sobriety-i-felt-betrayed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breaking her sobriety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward nearly a year later, de Lesseps confirmed to Cohen she has both the house in Sag Harbor and a different one in upstate New York.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll all be using all of our houses,&#8221; she told him. &#8220;All together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1035562\/luann-de-lesseps-children-and-ex-husband-drop-lawsuit-against-her?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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