The ex-girlfriend of former Vegas Golden Knights owner Gavin Maloof has been ordered to cough up nearly $500,000 she had stolen from his accounts, finally facing the music of the brazen heist.
Actress Jennifer Courtemanche, best known for her appearance on the FX show “You’re the Worst,” agreed to pay $444,648 in restitution to Maloof. Daily Mail reports.
The former “Days Of Our Lives” star and her co-defendant, Brittany Burgess, pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit robbery after they carried out a robbery that lasted several years.
The alleged fraud was discovered after Maloof complained of receiving harassing text messages and photos from VoIP numbers. The numbers were then returned to Courtemanche.
The thief duo also allegedly gained access to Maloof’s phone and authorized several Apple Cash transactions without his knowledge.
They stole the first chunk of money — about $93,000 — through Apple Cash in 2021, cops said.
The actress then allegedly received another $275,000 the following year and $75,000 again in 2023, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. 8 News Now reported last year.
Police said Courtemanche received a large share of the robbery money — nearly $433,000 — while her partner in crime received only $12,000.
According to the news report, of the 214 separate questionable transactions, 144 were traced to Burgess’s phone and she then transferred the money to Courtemanche.
The Canadian-born commercial model and her boyfriend planned the scheme in December 2020, police said.
In a series of text messages to Burgess, she shared her joy at Maloof’s single status and her desire to devise a plan to escape her “poor” lifestyle. “Oh my God, this is the thing I broke up with [expletive] Finally he wants me to get out and I won’t allow it [redacted] Or whatever stops me, this is my chance for both of us,” Courtemanche texted Burgess.
“I have been so frustrated and poor… We need to get the life we have always deserved, no more struggle and no more misery in emergency mental hospitals etc,” it read. “We need a plan,” her friend allegedly responded.