Lisa Hochstein Claims She’s Being “Financially Strangled” — Restraining Order Escalates Divorce from Lenny Hochstein!

Lisa and Lenny Hochstein’s divorce is heating up as the former Real Housewives of Miami couple swaps punches in court and in the press.

Lisa reportedly filed legal docs earlier this week claiming that she was being “financially strangled” by her soon-to-be ex. Lenny’s new girlfriend, model, Katharina Mazepa, filed a restraining order against Lisa, only hours later. 

Lisa alleged in the most recent paperwork, obtained by Page Six, that her estranged husband “retaliates by restricting [her] access to funds” whenever she “does not acquiesce to each and every one of [his] demands” amid their ongoing divorce. The funds Lisa referenced are connected to a joint credit card, which Lenny oversees, that Lisa claimed was to be used for “personal expenses, expenses for the household and expenses for the parties’ children.”

Lisa claimed that while Lenny, 56, freely uses the card for his own personal expenses, she had been cut off.

“While the husband is presently traveling on a no-expense-spared vacation with his presumed girlfriend to Europe, he has left the wife and children without cash, access to funds and less than $3,000 of available credit on the joint credit card,” the docs stated.

Lisa alleged that the situation had landed her in “financial peril.” She claimed that Lenny supposedly shut her down after she “expressed serious reservations about [his] request to host, produce and throw a lavish Halloween party with his girlfriend at the marital home for 800-1,000 people with the children present.”

Lenny spoke to PEOPLE about the disagreement, via a statement, and claimed—”Lisa uses these court filings to portray me poorly in the press.” 

“The fact is that I pay for everything for the children separately. Lisa still lives in the home with the children without a single expense,” he said. “Recently, she has started abusing the credit card to buy things for herself. Last month the bill was nearly $60K. This month, she continued the abuse, including purchasing jewelry and clothing for herself, which placed the card over the limit just prior to my vacation.”

Lenny also claimed that he recently paid $5000 off the card “in case of emergency.”

He added—“I am trying me best to avoid conflict. I just want to be divorced.”

An insider close to Lisa disputed Lenny’s comments, telling the outlet—that “the credit card charges made were the children’s birthday party, a psychologist for Lenny, and for the attorney fees — that’s it.”

Lenny and Lisa wed in 2009 and confirmed their breakup on May 16. Lisa’s rep told PEOPLE that she was “blindsided” by her husband’s decision. They share two children, Logan, 7, and Elle, 2. 

Lenny explained of his relationship with Mazepa—”Nothing happened between [Katharina and I] until [Lisa and I] decided on the divorce, and Lisa was aware of my plans before anything happened between Katharina and myself.”

Mazepa’s restraining order alleged that Lisa had been “making threatening phone calls, creating fake social media accounts and posting threatening and false statements” to harass Mazepa, per an E! News report.

“As Lenny pointed out in his own public statement, they have been separated and sleeping in different bedrooms for months now and living separate lives for months now. It is only after Lenny’s separation that we began dating and having a relationship,” she told E!

Mazepa added— “How can [Lisa] have had ‘no idea’ about us going out together when she had time to directly threaten me and [my] home with statements like ‘you are going to pay’ [and] ‘I will destroy you’?”

Lisa denied the model’s claims, telling PEOPLE—”This is just another attempt at a woman who is a self-admitted home wrecker to further try to stay relevant. Hopefully, her 15 minutes will be up soon. I am working with my attorney on a legal response to her baseless allegations.”

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