Olivia Plath Sets Record Straight on Kim Plath’s Credit Card Fraud

Olivia Plath (née Meggs) is sharing new particulars about how her mother-in-law, Kim Plath, allegedly dedicated bank card fraud in opposition to her husband, Ethan Plath.

Through the August 2022 season 4 finale of TLC’s Welcome to Plathville, Olivia, 25, accused Kim, 51, of beforehand utilizing Ethan’s bank card with out his permission. “When Ethan was about 16, 17, his mother signed him as much as be on her down line for an MLM she was part of referred to as Younger Dwelling,” Olivia detailed in a prolonged TikTok on Wednesday, September 20. “And at the moment in Ethan’s life, he was not allowed on the pc, not allowed to have any passwords, in order that units the tone for this story.”

In line with Olivia, Ethan was not allowed to buy toiletries from a drug retailer or grocery retailer however quite acquired a month-to-month field of merchandise from the corporate. Just a few months into the subscription, Olivia mentioned Kim started making “actually giant purchases” on Ethan’s account to assist herself earn extra bonuses. “She made a ‘enterprise association’ along with her son that regardless of the order was that she positioned, she would pay him again half of that,” she defined.

Upon tying the knot with Ethan in 2018, Olivia requested her husband whether or not he needed to proceed receiving his month-to-month product bins, to which he instructed her no. The couple, nonetheless, couldn’t cancel the subscription as a result of Ethan didn’t know the password to his account.

“I requested him about it and he defined this enterprise deal, to which I mentioned, ‘So that you’re paying wherever from $100 to $300 a month that you simply’re not being reimbursed for and also you’re not conserving the product both? ‘Trigger that looks as if stealing,’” Olivia mentioned. “And a lightbulb went off for him.”

She proceeded to vary the account’s password after getting it from Kim, after which she seen Kim had redeemed free merchandise Ethan had earned in his account for herself. Olivia went on to assert that Kim and her then-husband, Barry Plath, tried to “bully” her into sharing the brand new password, which she refused. (Kim and Barry introduced their separation in June 2022.)

Because of this, she and Ethan composed an bill of the cash Kim owed for every product and gave her 45 days to pay it. “As an alternative of paying this bill for the cash she owed her son, they began going across the small city we lived in, telling everybody I used to be suing them for making an attempt to assist their children out,” Olivia claimed.

With the present in between filming seasons 1 and a pair of on the time, Olivia mentioned present executives reached out asking her to be the larger individual. “I used to be not about to be bullied into that, so I mentioned, ‘Completely not,’ stood my floor, and after 44 days of this speak round city — and everybody within the city being aware about the truth that I used to be ‘suing’ them — Ethan’s mother and father referred to as him up and mentioned, ‘We’ll pay you however you must come to our home to get your examine,’” she mentioned.

Olivia continued: “And when Ethan confirmed up, his dad handed the examine for the complete quantity and regarded him useless within the eye and mentioned, ‘Have a pleasant life dwelling in bondage.’”

4 of Ethan’s siblings — Micah, 22, Moriah, 21, Lydia, 19, and Isaac, 17 — beforehand addressed the bank card fraud scandal in an August 2022 Instagram assertion. “What Olivia mentioned about our mother utilizing Ethan’s bank card was not the complete story,” the message learn. “Mother and Ethan had a enterprise settlement by which Ethan earned an excellent bit of cash. And each events had been conscious of any transactions that we made. Our mother ought to have had the chance to defend herself and inform her aspect of the story.”

Kim, for her half, has not publicly addressed Olivia’s claims.