Cash can’t purchase class, however it will possibly purchase a feud.
Lisa Rinna posted screenshots late Thursday of Instagram direct messages purportedly despatched between Bravo fan account Your Moms Are Watching and advertising and marketing supervisor Patrick Somers that seems to substantiate he was paid by Kathy Hilton to plant destructive tales concerning the Rinna Magnificence founder.
“I’ve tea. I simply DMed with Patrick Somers, that child that despatched Rinna a textual content final weekend threatening her,” Your Mothers Are Watching’s preliminary submit started.
“Rinna then posted the textual content and the child posted Rinna’s quantity and it grew to become an enormous factor. Properly, he simply admitted to me KATHY HILTON PAID HIM TO DO THIS. …. Seems he made the whole lot up simply to divert focus from the truth that Lisa was calling out Kathy for the slurs she made in Aspen.
The fan account then posted the messages during which Somers allegedly claims that the title of the “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” star who employed him rhymes with “Milton” and that he was “given one job: to tug consideration away from my shopper. I did that… I used to be given a few specifics to ensure I hit our advertising and marketing technique.”
Somers additionally claimed within the messages that he wanted to “pull consideration away from what was happening” so he planted tales a few pretend lawsuit and pretend present.
Following the social media exposé, Somers took to his personal account to launch a press release on the job he was employed to do — and he was paid handsomely.
“My newest task was executed in opposition to Lisa Rinna. I by no means reveal a shoppers [sic] private data per my NDA settlement,” his message began.
“My newest advertising and marketing marketing campaign was to attract consideration away from my shopper.. That’s precisely what I did. All narratives related to my newest marketing campaign are false. I used to be compensated $27,527.72 for my work.”
Somers goes on to confess all tales have been “planted” by him and that there’s “no lawsuit” and “no new actuality present.”
“And admittedly I’ve by no means met Lisa Rinna,” he concludes.
A rep for Hilton and Bravo didn’t instantly return Web page Six’s request for remark.
RadarOnline reported in February that Hilton had a “meltdown” throughout the Bravo forged’s journey to Aspen, Colo., in January. Shortly thereafter, rumors started swirling that the off-camera fiasco could have concerned Hilton’s alleged use of a homosexual slur — which Rinna and Jayne, 50, have been mentioned to have introduced again to the group.
Their co-star Sutton Stracke subsequently denied Hilton used a homosexual slur whereas speaking about her assistant.
