Kyle Richards’ estranged husband Mauricio Umansky testified underneath oath as a part of his household’s effort to acquire a restraining order for his dementia-stricken father, In Contact can solely report.
In Contact obtained a transcript of the Might 5 listening to, the place Mauricio, 54, answered questions on his father, Eduardo Umansky.
In October 2024, Mauricio’s sister, Sharon Benton Umansky, filed a petition for an elder grownup abuse prevention restraining order on behalf of Eduardo, 81, towards Eduardo’s longtime associate, Simin Tabibnia.
Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.
Sharon, who has her personal restraining order in place towards Simin, accused her father’s girlfriend of being “abusive” to him. Simin denied the accusations and accused Eduardo of being the abusive one.
She requested the court docket to grant her a restraining order towards him. The 2 have been going forwards and backwards in court docket for months.
A call has but to be made on the matter regardless of a number of hearings.
On the latest listening to, Mauricio’s mom, Estella Sneider, was current within the courtroom. She instructed the decide she was the mom of Mauricio and Sharon and Eduardo’s former spouse of 30 years.
Whereas underneath oath, Mauricio defined he’s the CEO and founding father of the true property firm The Company, which Eduardo has labored at as an agent.
Mauricio defined the true property brokers who work at his agency normally are paid 80 % on a sale and the remainder goes to The Company.
Mauricio stated it had been over 18 months since his dad offered his final dwelling. Simin’s lawyer objected after Mauricio was requested how a lot Eduardo was paid in 2023 from The Company.
Sharon’s lawyer defined the query was related as a result of Simin testified that the cash that Eduardo paid to her was a share of his commissions.
Sharon’s lawyer stated they imagine obtained $124,000 in 2023 and $156,000 in 2024 from Eduardo, which they argued is proof of alleged monetary abuse. Simin testified at a earlier listening to that the cash was commissions owed to her as a result of she labored with Eduardo promoting properties.
Mauricio instructed the court docket his father earned round $35,000 in commissions in 2023. A tax kind was offered in court docket displaying Eduardo earned $39,823.69 in commissions in 2024.
In court docket, Mauricio stated Simin used to work for The Company however not did. He stated her time together with his firm resulted in early 2024.
Throughout cross-examination, Simin’s lawyer grilled Mauricio about Eduardo and Simin’s relationship.
Mauricio defined that inside The Company, his daughter served as president of The Umansky Crew. He stated Eduardo labored underneath The Umansky Crew, as did he.
He stated Simin was given “courtesy permission to work for The Umansky Crew as she was my father’s girlfriend, however she didn’t work for The Umansky Crew. She had it as a title, however she by no means earned commissions or was paid the way in which we paid The Umansky Crew.”
Mauricio additionally revealed Eduardo owns 4 % of The Company.
Simin’s lawyer grilled Mauricio on whether or not Eduardo was paid any compensation attributable to his possession. Mauricio denied Eduardo was paid any dividends and stated The Company needed to take care of a sluggish actual property marketplace for the previous couple of years.
“[Eduardo] made an funding in The Company firstly. The final three years, the true property brokerage has been underneath the bottom on the great housing recession. The final three years, we’ve had the bottom quantity of transactions within the markets ever because the early Nineties, because the recession of the early Nineties. And so, 2022, 2023, The Company misplaced a “important sum of money.”
He continued, “And in 2024, we had been in a position to right-size the enterprise and get it proper round even level, so there have been no dividends to disburse.”
Mauricio stated he believed dividends had been solely distributed one 12 months to house owners. He stated, “The remainder of the time we used the cash for continued progress, and we continued to reinvest all the income into progress.”
The fact star and businessman stated he was shut together with his father and stated he was not conscious of every other revenue for Eduardo. Mauricio was grilled a couple of textual content he despatched Simin’s son on November 24, 2024.
When requested why he despatched it, Mauricio stated, “I don’t recall. I believe that message form of speaks for itself as to why I despatched it. I believe that my father was experiencing dementia on the time, and or is experiencing dementia, and I used to be asking her to only you recognize, to please cease.”
A portion of the textual content learn, “Relating to your mother and my father, I wish to remind you and her that she can’t be talking to my father.”
Mauricio testified that he has by no means had any points with Simin over the 18 years she was together with his father.
He admitted Simin not works at The Company.
He stated, “We terminated [Simin’s] relationship with The Company due to the violation of rule primary.” When requested what the rule was, Mauricio stated “no assholes.” Simin’s lawyer requested if Mauricio needed to make clear.
The true property mogul stated, “It simply signifies that we don’t settle for poor ethics, poor integrity, misrepresentation of The Company’s morals.” He alleged that there have been three events that got here to thoughts. “Two events had been a verbal abuse within the workplace that was reported to me which my father was verbally abused, and it was reported by a number of folks, and I obtained these experiences.”
Mauricio stated the third incident was a video that was despatched “to me through Twitter and TikTok that was [Simin] yelling and abusing somebody on the streets due to their political opinions and [Simin] has a license plate that say The Company on it, and represented that, you recognize, on all the LinkedIn, and I obtained a number of messages from a number of events in response to this tape, and so, subsequently, we simply between the three of these issues, we needed to disassociate ourselves.”
As In Contact first reported, in her petition towards Simin, Mauricio’s sister claimed she began noticing “indicators of threats and abuse” about ten years in the past.
“It was obscure precisely what was taking place. Round August or September 2022 was when issues started to escalate,” Sharon instructed the court docket.
Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.
“My father began having bloody arms and bruises. She would harm him, when he would seize her arms, she would bruise after which threaten to ship him to jail for abuse. As his daughter, I’m making an attempt to guard him from residing out the remainder of his life underneath duress,” Sharon claimed.
“Now we have recognized about a number of the abuse together with verbal threats, sexual manipulation, bodily violence and filed a police report however my father is a battered boyfriend and has early indicators of dementia and refused to press costs for concern of the threats that Simin has posed on him for a few years,” Sharon stated.
Simin adamantly denied the accusations. She claimed she was the sufferer of Eduardo’s abuse and filed for a restraining order towards him. In her submitting, Simin defined she had been with Eduardo for the previous 18 years.
She claimed Sharon was by no means a fan of hers and tried to interrupt up the connection many instances.
Simin wrote, “[Sharon’s] claims that I’m bodily abusive are additionally unfaithful and ironic. For a very long time, I’ve endured lots of violent bodily abuse from [Eduardo].”
As a part of her petition, Simin filed photographs displaying alleged bruises attributable to Eduardo. Simin pleaded for a court docket order requiring Eduardo to avoid her and to not contact her.
“Throughout [the relationship], I endured ongoing bodily, verbal and emotional abuse. I now concern for my security attributable to [Eduardo’s] actions,” Simin stated. She accused him of punching her within the face and arms. She additionally stated he shoved her to the bottom and choked her.
She added, “These incidents have left me not solely bodily injured but additionally emotionally injured.”
Simin stated Mauricio’s father’s “violent outbursts look like triggered by alcohol consumption and interactions together with his household.”
The authorized battle is ongoing.
