{"id":364356,"date":"2026-10-04T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364356\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:12:11","slug":"love-starved-nyc-widow-loses-bid-to-recoup-6m-from-male-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364356\/","title":{"rendered":"Love-starved NYC widow loses bid to recoup $6M from male escort"},"content":{"rendered":"

This escort gets to keep the money and run. <\/p>\n

A love-starved Big Apple widow who plunked down nearly $6 million for the services of a male escort knew what she was getting into and won\u2019t be getting her money back, a New York judge has ruled.<\/p>\n

Marianne Flippo, 49, sued hunk-for-hire Greggory Starr<\/a> claiming he coerced her to open a joint bank account after hooking up with the gigolo through an escort service and scammed her out of the money, including transferring more than $1 million to an off-shore account in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

But in a two-page ruling released last week, Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank ruled that the lonely widow \u201cfailed to establish entitlement to the relief sought,\u201d and \u201cfailed to demonstrate irreparable harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gregg Starr and Mary Anne Flippo attend Steve and Luiza Gold\u2019s Holiday Party at a private residence in New York, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. Jason Lowrie\/BFA.com\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cThe allegations in the complaint involve a contract, to which defendants have submitted audio recordings of what appears to be plaintiff\u2019s knowing and willing acknowledgement of the contents thereof,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Flippo, the widow of Chad Flippo<\/a>, the inventor of the game \u201cRoblox\u201d who died in August 2024, hooked up with Starr through the male escort service, Cowboys 4 Angels, starting a two-year fling. <\/p>\n

In court papers, the widow claimed the escort service and the gigolo siphoned millions from her during the steamy affair \u2014 which Starr described as true love in court papers. <\/p>\n

The chiseled gigolo, who underwent extensive plastic surgery<\/a> to achieve his icy stare and sculpted abs, according to graphic videos, even said the two talked of marriage. <\/p>\n

Dr. Jason Emer draws on Gregg Starr\u2019s body in preparation for plastic surgery in this undated image from an Instagram video. Starr, a male escort who allegedly swindled a Roblox developer\u2019s widow out of $6 million, underwent extensive plastic surgery to achieve his icy stare and sculpted abs. Instagram\/jasonemermd<\/p>\n

Marianne Flippo appears in court, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, at Manhattan Supreme Court. Flippo accuses Greggory Starr of scamming her out of $6 million following the suicide of her husband. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

But Flippo claims it was all a scam.<\/p>\n

Gregg Starr is seen in a photo posted to Instagram on February 23, 2025. Starr, a male escort working for the \u2018Freak-Off\u2019 company, allegedly stole $6 million from Mary Anne Flippo. Instagram\/Gregg Starr<\/p>\n

\u201cI now realize I was foolish,\u201d a mortified Flippo wrote in her Manhattan Supreme Court filing.<\/p>\n

Flippo\u2019s lawyer, Larry Hutcher, said at a court hearing last month that Starr fled to Dubai with his client\u2019s cash, a claim the 38-year-old escort claimed was just an overseas vacation.<\/p>\n

In a statement Sunday, his lawyers, Jeremy Feigenbaum and Todd Spodek, hailed Frank\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ruling confirms what we have said from the outset: moving funds between accounts bearing Gregg\u2019s own name is not concealment, and suspicion is not a substitute for evidence,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court rejected the effort to turn an ordinary paper trail into something sinister,\u201d the attorneys added. \u201cTwo consenting adults entered into a bona fide agreement, and a later change of heart does not erase the legitimacy of either the relationship or the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This escort gets to keep the money and run. A love-starved Big Apple widow who plunked down nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21871,122832,396,2850,4327,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-364356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-dubai","tag-escorts","tag-fraud","tag-lawsuits","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}