Mauricio Umansky Claims Rick Hilton DID HIM DIRTY In Real Estate Business
Mauricio Umansky Claims Rick Hilton DID HIM DIRTY In Real Estate Business
Mauricio Umansky looks back at his past conflict with brother-in-law, Rick Hilton, over being denied a partnership at Rick’s real estate firm, on the upcoming season of Buying Beverly Hills.
“I think I got kind of f–ked by Hilton & Hyland,” Mauricio asserted in a newly released preview of his Netflix series.
The 53-year-old added — “And when I say f–ked, you know, like, today I’m happy, but there was a hundred agents at Hilton & Hyland. They did a billion dollars for the first time a year. I was 19.6 percent of their production.”
Mauricio, the estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Kyle Richards, 55, explained that he expected the promotion because of the numbers he brought in to his brother-in-law’s real estate business.
“I went to Rick and I said, ‘I’d really like equity, right, and to be a partner,” he said, during a conversation with his co-workers.
He added that Rick, 68, turned him down after speaking to the firm’s co-founder, Jeff Hyland.
Mauricio shared that he decided to leave Hilton & Hyland to start his own real estate firm, after discussing the pros and cons with his wife, the younger sister of Rick’s wife, Kathy Hilton.
“‘This is really going to cause a lot of stress between you, your sister and your family, and I don’t want to do this move of leaving and starting a company if you’re not comfortable,’” he told Kyle, at the time.
Mauricio went on to start The Agency, which became the subject of the reality series after skyrocketing to a top tier real estate firm.
Mauricio dished during the sneak peek that Rick was supposedly upset because he was not warned about his impending exit. He went on to say that his departure caused his relationship with Rick to “sour” and created problems within the family.
“Kyle more than anybody,” he said in a confessional spot. “You know, her family stopped speaking to her. But she understood that what was done to me was wrong and she stood by me and, at the end of the day, I needed that.”
Mauricio first spoke out about his decision to leave Rick’s firm and the subsequent family feud in his 2023 memoir, “The Dealmaker.”
“[Rick] and Kathy held tremendous anger toward us, which is not the way I choose to live my life,” he wrote in the tell-all. “Naturally, Kyle was very hurt by their reaction, and it was a difficult pill for her to swallow.”
The real estate mogul also said that if the partners had “paid [him] what [he] deserved” and “showed [him] an inkling of professional love,” he would have stayed at Hilton and Hyland.
Mauricio claimed that he and his in-laws had since made amends, after the memoir was released, last year.
“We got through that,” he told Us Weekly in April 2023. “I just hope that as Rick and the family read my book, they realize that my stories are facts and real, and I’m certainly not throwing anything at them, because I love them more than anything.”
Mauricio and Kyle announced their separation after a 27-year marriage, three months later.
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