Lisa and Lenny Hochstein's Divorce Escalates with Restraining Order, 'Financially Strangling' Claims

Mar. 15, 2025

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According to the documents, Lisa claims Lenny is fine to use the card for his own personal expenses — but he’s cut her off from the shared financial pool. “While the husband is presently traveling on a no-expense-spared vacation with his presumed girlfriend to Europe, he has left the wife and children without cash, access to funds and less than $3,000 of available credit on the joint credit card,” reads the filing.

Lisa claims that this situation has put her in “financial peril.” Additionally, she claims Lenny’s alleged financial maneuvers transpired after she “expressed serious reservations about [his] request to host, produce and throw a lavish Halloween party with his girlfriend at the marital home for 800-1,000 people with the children present.”

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In a statement to PEOPLE, Lenny claims, “Lisa uses these court filings to portray me poorly in the press.”

“The fact is that I pay for everything for the children separately. Lisa still lives in the home with the children without a single expense,” he says. “Recently, she has started abusing the credit card to buy things for herself. Last month the bill was nearly $60K. This month, she continued the abuse, including purchasing jewelry and clothing for herself, which placed the card over the limit just prior to my vacation.”

Lenny also says he recently paid $5,000 off of the credit card “in case of emergency.” He adds, “I am trying me best to avoid conflict. I just want to be divorced.”

A source close to Lisa denies Lenny’s claims, telling PEOPLE that “the credit card charges made were the children’s birthday party, a psychologist for Lenny and for the attorney fees — that’s it.”

At the time, Lenny also confirmed the divorce to PEOPLE, saying that specific reasons would “be kept private.”

Lenny is now dating model Mazepa, though he told PEOPLE in May: “Nothing happened between [Katharina and I] until [Lisa and I] decided on the divorce, and Lisa was aware of my plans before anything happened between Katharina and myself.”

The model alleges that Lisa spun a “false narrative” that Lenny cheated with Mazepa ahead of the divorce. “As Lenny pointed out in his own public statement, they have been separated and sleeping in different bedrooms for months now and living separate lives for months now. It is only after Lenny’s separation that we began dating and having a relationship,” she told E!

Mazepa added, “How can [Lisa] have had ‘no idea’ about us going out together when she had time to directly threaten me and [my] home with statements like ‘you are going to pay’ [and] ‘I will destroy you’?”

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Lisa and Lenny were married in 2009 and share two children: Logan, 7, and Elle, 2.

source: people.com