{"id":549823,"date":"2026-03-20T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:31:14","slug":"mormon-wives-demi-called-out-by-vanderpump-villas-marciano-for-suggesting-fake-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549823\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mormon Wives’ Demi Called Out by ‘Vanderpump Villa’s Marciano for Suggesting Fake Storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marciano Brunette to Demi Engemann
\n You Faked a Storyline …
\n That’ll Cost You in My Lawsuit!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 20, 2026
\n 6:36 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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‘Mormon Wives’ star Demi Engemann<\/a> allegedly admitted to lying about a storyline in her \u201cpursuit of fame\u201d … and now a guy suing her for defamation plans to use it against her in court … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

In court docs obtained by TMZ, “Vanderpump Villa” star Marciano Brunette<\/a> fired back at Demi\u2019s attempt to dismiss the defamation lawsuit he filed against her over sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n

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As TMZ previously reported, Marciano claimed Demi ruined his rep by falsely accusing him of sexual assault that she said occurred when they both filmed for “Vanderpump Villa.” Marciano has insisted<\/a> everything between them was consensual.<\/p>\n

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In his filing, Marciano says Demi even publicly admitted in a social media post that she suggested faking a storyline involving a fake romance with costar Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a>\u2019s then-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen<\/a>, in order to make the show less “boring” … but he says producers declined the offer.\u00a0He claims it’s clear that Demi understood the producers’ “appetite for salacious content and was happy to fabricate stories to satisfy it.”<\/p>\n

As TMZ first reported, Demi called the lawsuit<\/a> a “sham” and said he filed it to get “media attention” and punish her for speaking out about his “misconduct.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marciano Brunette to Demi Engemann You Faked a Storyline … That’ll Cost You in My Lawsuit!!! Published March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-549823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}