The messy split between Denise Richards and her estranged husband Aaron Phypers just keeps getting uglier.
Richards’ nasty divorce has already produced one headline-grabbing courtroom loss for the “Dancing with the Stars” contestant: a court order requiring her to financially support the man she’s trying to leave.
A Darker Scandal
Now, a Los Angeles court slapping Phypers with a $160,000 default judgment — tied to allegations that his Malibu wellness clinic, Quantum 360 Club, made fraudulent claims about an experimental cancer treatment to a cancer patient and refused to provide a promised refund, according to Page Six.
After making a promise of a cure for the disease that he could not deliver, he refused to return her money when she deteriorated and died.
The patient, Elina Katsioula-Beall, had been diagnosed with sarcoma and turned to Phypers’ center in 2023 after conventional treatments failed. She was allegedly promised a stem cell treatment with a 98% success rate. It didn’t work.
The woman died in May 2024, and he would close Quantum 360 Club shortly after.
And according to the claim, Phypers still wouldn’t give back the $63,000 her family was owed. After receiving the lawsuit, he chose not to respond, which led to his six-figure default judgment.
It’s a stunning fall for a man who once presented himself as a healer. It will definitely be a challenge, as he has indicated that he has no steady income after shutting down the clinic.
Despite this, the reality star has experienced a small financial victory.
In the Los Angeles Superior Court, according to People, Judge Nicole Bershon ordered Richards to pay Phypers $5,000 a month in temporary financial support beginning March 5. She was also ordered to cover $25,000 in his attorney fees and $5,000 for a forensic accountant, totaling $30,000 payable in three monthly installments through May.
Interestingly enough, Phypers was the one who filed for divorce in July 2025, citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason to end their six-and-a-half-year marriage.
The numbers behind the ruling tell the story of her success over his. Richards earns more than $250,000 a month — roughly $3 million annually — through OnlyFans, television appearances, and brand partnerships.
Outside of the financial fallout Phypers is experiencing, he has other legal woes.
Richards secured a five-year restraining order against Phypers in November 2025, restricting contact and prohibiting firearm ownership through November 2030.
The couple married in 2018 after meeting through Phypers’ wellness business — the very same operation now at the center of a fraud judgment and the claimed source of his financial hardship. Six years later, that business is closed, a woman who sought its treatments is dead, and Phypers is living on his ex-wife’s income while a court-ordered debt hangs over him.
Winning temporary support in February looked like a strategic win — until the fraud judgment landed weeks later and flipped the narrative.
