{"id":233596,"date":"2026-04-16T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:46:24","slug":"dr-miami-fires-back-at-former-employee-alleging-unfair-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233596\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Miami Fires Back At Former Employee Alleging Unfair Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Dr. Miami to Santina Rizzi<br \/>\n                          Sorry You Felt Undervalued, But You Were Like Family<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              April 15, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:59 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260415_a23772ea36564e55b2fc3834e7840782\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:06348e4c-0ecc-47a8-967e-d52fdfce29a7\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a23772ea36564e55b2fc3834e7840782_md.png\" alt=\"dr miami Michael Salzhauer santina main insta tiktok\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Miami is getting ripped online by a former employee who says she wasn&#8217;t paid fairly when she worked for him &#8230; and he tells us he&#8217;s sorry she feels that way.<\/p>\n<p>Santina Rizzi has a couple viral TikTok posts where she complains about being undervalued by Dr. Miami &#8230; saying she was denied a raise after boosting his social media engagement and follower count.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2dc319876c764da49228e7d2521d5319_md.png\" alt=\"041526 santina kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just finances &#8230; Santina also claims Dr. Miami told her she needed liposuction on her arms, provided the surgery, then sent her on a work trip where she complained about pain. Santina says she had to get her arms drained on the trip by another doctor.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0462d3e2e1f247e9986a7dd731e1239a_md.jpg\" alt=\"santina-sub-04-15-2026\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TikTok \/ @sanrizzle<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Miami tells TMZ \u2026 he saw Santina as a daughter, not an employee. He says she came to his home for Shabbat dinners and traveled with his family to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The doc says their relationship was close and like family, and adds &#8230; &#8220;When it comes to family and business there\u2019s a risk, but we take that risk. Everyone that works here is family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250611_6e2e1153890f428982d1e9341c28371a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:06348e4c-0ecc-47a8-967e-d52fdfce29a7\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6e2e1153890f428982d1e9341c28371a_md.jpg\" alt=\"dr miami getty sub swipe 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Miami says he&#8217;s sad she moved on, and is more sad she had that experience &#8230; he says he doesn&#8217;t want to invalidate what she&#8217;s expressing, but says from his perspective, his team is happy and paid well.<\/p>\n<p>He says there&#8217;s no bad blood on his end &#8230; and he&#8217;s forever grateful for the work she did for his social media presence, and wishes her the best and would hire her back.<\/p>\n<p>As for Santina&#8217;s liposuction claims, Dr. Miami tells us &#8230; &#8220;I have a very different perspective, I\u2019m a plastic surgeon and am supposed to make patients feel better. People come to me with insecurities, I don\u2019t create insecurities. Not sure what she\u2019s referring to, the surgery went beautifully. I would never put her at risk in any way. In regard to the situation with her arms, I don\u2019t remember details but remember she did get drained by another office.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Miami to Santina Rizzi Sorry You Felt Undervalued, But You Were Like Family Published April 15, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-233596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}