Whereas Luis “Louie” Ruelas enjoys wedded bliss with spouse Teresa Giudice, his private and enterprise life haven’t at all times been so tranquil.
In Could 2023, Us Weekly confirmed that the entrepreneur’s firm Digital Media Options was named in a category motion lawsuit. A girl named Juanita Williams claimed the Ruelas’ tech firm and Alternative Well being Insurance coverage despatched her a sequence of telemarketing calls regardless of being on the nationwide “Do Not Name” record and was searching for $1,500 for each name she obtained.
Williams additionally alleged within the submitting that she answered one in all Alternative Well being’s calls in September 2022 and was transferred to one in all their insurance coverage brokers. Throughout their dialog, the healthcare firm allegedly advised her that Digital Media Options had generated her quantity for them as a possible gross sales lead.
Ruelas based DMS in 2012 and serves as a cofounder and the manager vice chairman of enterprise growth. The Males of Legacy founder and Giudice — who tied the knot in August 2022 — haven’t addressed the lawsuit.
The next month, Ruelas confronted one other authorized woe. Us revealed that the Actual Housewives of New Jersey persona was hit with a restraining order from ex-fiancée Vanessa Reiser, who claimed she was being harassed by her ex.
“The allegation is that [Luis] employed Richard ‘Bo’ Dietl’s personal investigation firm to put his documented worker ‘Elaine Boxer’ as a fraudulent undercover covert plant utilizing the pretend identify ‘Elana Berkelhammer’ to stalk, harass and in any other case seem as a ‘affected person’ of my shopper underneath false pretenses,” Reiser’s legal professional, Douglas Anton, solely advised Us in June 2023 whereas alleging that Ruelas was making an attempt to “intimidate” the licensed therapist, who makes a speciality of narcissistic abuse.
Anton claimed that the investigator visited Reiser “three or 4 occasions” as a affected person whereas noting that she “surprisingly” requested in regards to the psychologist’s former relationship with the Ruelas. Reiser sought out a protecting order out of worry — which was allegedly deemed “confidential” by the courtroom, per her lawyer.
“The way through which [Luis] went about fraudulently invading her occupation raises the extent of worry in that, even with prior Civil Restraint Orders/ Agreements in place that codify that he and he or she are mutually to not have the sort of conduct to or towards one another, he seemingly acts with contempt of similar,” the New Jersey-based legal professional advised Us. “This has obtained to cease. In order that we’re clear, it’s a one hundred pc documented evidentiary proven fact that the girl who faked being a affected person of my shopper for a number of classes was, at the moment, in February of 2023, an worker of Dietl.”
Ruelas has not addressed the claims nor the restraining order. Dietl, for his half, has denied being employed by Ruelas to research Giudice’s RHONJ costars however has not addressed the accusations made by Reiser.
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