Denise Richards Dragged Into Ex’s Shady Business Scandal

What began with an unpleasant verbal fight has snowballed right into a bitter divorce drama laced with financial feuds, reality TV disappointments, and lawsuits.

As shocking court documents surface and sources spill secrets, friends say the truly messy a part of the Denise Richards saga is just starting.

Denise Richards’ six-year marriage to Aaron Phypers officially imploded after a Fourth of July weekend argument changed into a profane farewell.

A detailed source told the Day by day Mail, “They’ve been having trouble for a while, but that they had a row over the weekend where they mainly were like ‘f-ck you,’ and he marched off to file for divorce.”

Although their split is legally recorded as starting July 4, insiders say the blowout was the ultimate straw in a long-brewing storm.

“All they were doing was fighting. It was very toxic,” the insider revealed. Richards, 53, is now navigating a sea of conflicting emotions.

The insider added, “Denise is each devastated and relieved at the identical time. She is mentally exhausted from the fighting, and he or she is glad that is over.”

Nevertheless, peace is way from guaranteed. The source noted, “She is 100% not looking forward to the divorce, because he’s made it clear that he won’t go quietly,” the insider added. “And she or he now has to gear up for a battle, which is not what she wants.”

Because the court battle heats up, money is becoming a flashpoint.

In his divorce filing, Phypers claimed that Richards earns an estimated $250,000 per 30 days from a mix of OnlyFans, brand deals, television appearances, and public engagements.

He, however, says he hasn’t earned a dime since shutting down his business, Q360 Club, in October 2024.

In court documents, Phypers states he needs spousal support to cover his $105,000 monthly expenses.

He’s also demanding a 50% split of the couple’s production company, Smoke & Mirrors Entertainment.

Friends of the couple hint that financial tensions were all the time bubbling under the surface. “Their marriage was based on the philosophy of ‘She earns and he spends,'” one source said bluntly.

Richards’ try and reboot her reality TV fame with “Denise Richards & Her Wild Things” hasn’t helped matters.

While she returned to the screen with a daring recent show, it was short-lived. In line with reports, the series was intended as a limited-run from the beginning, and it won’t return for one more season.

“Aaron hoped that their reality show was going to catapult him to reality stardom,” a source shared. “Nobody cares about him on the show. Without her, he has no reality profession.”

Because the limelight dims, so do Aaron Phypers’ prospects. Once the face behind Malibu’s Q360 Club, he closed the wellness center months before their lease was set to run out.

Sources claim he couldn’t keep the business afloat attributable to high operating costs and a scarcity of support from Richards.

“Ultimately, it was too expensive to operate and get the machines he needed and to pay rent,” one insider revealed. “Denise was unwilling to take a position in it.”

Things have gotten even messier behind the scenes. Richards’ name has now been dragged into Aaron’s Phypers’ financial chaos.

His wellness business, Quantum Epigenetics Consulting LLC, faced lawsuits, unpaid loans, and even an IRS revocation of its charity status.

Though Richards wasn’t initially listed in the corporate filings, she was named as Secretary and CFO in 2024, just months before the shutdown.

In a single explosive case, the Creditors Adjustment Bureau attempted to go after Richards directly, arguing that Phypers hadn’t paid back a $190,000 loan.

They claimed that since the couple doesn’t have a prenuptial agreement, Richards’ assets might be community property, and subsequently fair game.

The bureau wrote, “Judgment Debtors don’t claim that such agreement exists between Aaron Phypers and his spouse. If such agreement existed, Aaron Phypers would have unequivocally stated so and would have presented the evidence in his Opposition. Nevertheless, Judgment Debtor didn’t produce such evidence since it doesn’t exist.”

Though a judge denied the motion attributable to technicalities, the case continues and raises the stakes for Richards.

In perhaps probably the most damning accusation yet, Aaron  Phypers is being sued for fraud and breach of oral contract by the widower of Elina Katsioula-Beall, a former award-winning art director.

The lawsuit alleged that Phypers misrepresented stem cell treatments offered at Q360 as having a 98% success rate and guaranteed refunds.

The patient’s tumors grew by 25% after treatment. When she passed away in May 2024, her husband requested the promised refund, $63,000 of the $126,000 paid, but was allegedly ignored.

Phypers, the lawsuit claims, offered excuses and never followed through.

Now the plaintiff is pursuing a jury trial.

Probably the most recent filing requested permission to publish the lawsuit in The Malibu Times as a type of serving Phypers, after previous attempts failed.