Made headlines when it was discovered that Michael Fanghella, a California mortgage company CEO who was keeping her as his mistress, spent more than $14 million on her in cash and gifts (jewelry, cars, houses, etc.). It turned out that he and his business partners had defrauded investors in their company out of $330 million over a period of years. In 2005 he was convicted of fraud, money laundering and income-tax evasion and sentenced to ten years in prison. She was not implicated in any wrongdoing, but was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to get her to return her "ill-gotten gains".