A white-shoe patent lawyer who invested in a reality TV show was slapped with a $250,000-plus suit today by a woman who claims he stiffed her for work on the project.
Dwight Renfrew allegedly signed a $125,000 contract with Jena Ferguson to help produce “Managing James and Rebecca,” about an aspiring fashion designer and her poker-playing boyfriend.
But Ferguson’s self-filed Manhattan federal court complaint says she never got paid a penny, and also incurred expenses of $2,431 “for storage fees for a car” and $1,500 “for hiring a private eye to obtain clothes back.”
Plans for the show blew up last year, after Renfrew demanded the return of his $580,000 investment. That prompted prospective stars Rebecca Kudryavsky and James Boccanfuso to accuse him of pulling the plug because he had an unrequited crush on Kudryavsky.
Kudryavasy later got busted in an alleged insurance-fraud scheme involving a Lexus SUV that Renfrew helped her lease.
Renfew didn’t return a request for comment.