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Teresa Giudice’s husband Luis “Louie” Ruelas’ enterprise’ Digital Media Options, has been named in a harassment lawsuit, Us Weekly can verify.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by Us, a lady named Juanita Williams filed a class-action lawsuit towards Alternative Well being Insurance coverage and Ruelas’ Digital Media Options earlier this month. Williams claimed that she had obtained a number of telemarketing calls from the corporations regardless of being listed on the nationwide “Do Not Name” registry.
Williams — who’s searching for $1,500 per name — additionally alleged in her submitting that she answered one in all Alternative Well being’s calls in September 2022 and was promptly transferred to one in all their insurance coverage brokers. In the course of the dialog, the healthcare firm allegedly instructed her that Digital Media Options had generated her quantity for them as a possible gross sales lead.
Ruelas, 49, launched Digital Media Options in 2012. In keeping with the agency’s web site, DMS is a “main supplier of technology-enabled digital efficiency promoting options connecting customers and advertisers.” The New Jersey native — who married Giudice, 51, in August 2022 — is listed as a cofounder and the manager vp of enterprise growth. Neither Ruelas nor The Actual Housewives of New Jersey star have addressed the lawsuit. Us Weekly has reached out for remark.
Lawyer Neama Rahmani, who just isn’t related to the case, spoke to Us in regards to the potential ramifications that Ruelas may face amid the lawsuit.
“On the subject of these kinds of violations, you already know, individually they may not be quite a bit, however they actually do add up,” the lawyer solely instructed Us on Wednesday, Might 24. “So, Congress has handed legal guidelines that enable individuals to sue and kinda get these statutory damages. Once more, may not make sense with respect to at least one name, but when individuals or firms are making tons of, generally hundreds of telephone calls, this can be a method for customers to type of strike again and get again. If the allegations are true, Louie and his firm could also be in for some monetary hassle.”
Rahmani additionally famous that Ruelas “doubtlessly” may very well be required to pay Williams damages if his agency is discovered liable.
Previous to working at DMS, Ruelas was a 20-year veteran within the digital advertising house. He confessed that he misplaced his final job amid his romance with the Bravolebrity.
“Teresa didn’t need me to say this, however they let me go from my firm from all of the unfavorable stuff that got here up within the press due to my exes on the market,” Ruelas mentioned throughout an episode of Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen in Might 2022. “Yeah, they referred to as me up and mentioned, you already know, ‘You need to step down.’ That basically sucked.”
A resurfaced video of Ruelas first made headlines in July 2021, during which he claimed needed to “have a life” and get married to a previous companion. Ruelas — who shares two sons together with his ex-wife, Marisa DiMartino — was then accused of mistreating a number of of his previous girlfriends. Giudice, who coparents her 4 daughters with ex-husband Joe Giudice, has caught by her man and continuously defended him from the allegations.
“I do know individuals make all these judgments and say all this stuff on social media concerning him. Like he desires to be on TV. He so doesn’t need to be on TV. It’s so not his factor. If something, he’s supporting me, but it surely’s actually not his factor,” Teresa — who began courting the businessman in 2020 — instructed Leisure Tonight in November 2021. “I want individuals would simply go away us alone. Anyone that’s unfavorable, simply please go away us alone. As a result of initially, they’re by no means going to destroy our happiness, simply go away it at that. It’s by no means going to occur. And I’m a really sturdy, sturdy particular person. If everybody doesn’t know that, I’m. And in the event that they knock me down, I’ll get proper again up.”
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Ruelas proposed to Teresa in October 2021, almost one 12 months earlier than they tied the knot.
