In his lawsuit, Ramal-Shah claims there wasn’t much sugar with his baby: She told him that if he continued to send her “gifts,” she’d agree to meet in person, he alleges, but she always cancelled at the last minute, including leaving him waiting at an airport in North Carolina for a flight she never boarded. She later told him she was in the hospital after just being diagnosed with bone cancer.
According to the ruling, Kirsten said her sugar daddy became possessive at the beginning of 2017, grilling her on who she was seeing, threatening to ruin her reputation and calling her a “whore.” To get out of meeting him, she admitted lying about breaking her leg and having cancer. By March 2018, she broke off all contact but he wouldn’t accept the end of their relationship.
Ramal-Shah began emailing her parents — who until then, didn’t know about their daughter’s sugaring — and then their clients and friends with allegations that he’d been scammed, the judge said. Colleen Jones hired a lawyer who sent seven cease-and-desist letters; instead of complying, he just mocked him as a “shopping mall lawyer.”
In August 2018, Ramal-Shah emailed Kirsten’s mom: “So offer me a settlement, and we can keep this out of the courts.”
But he didn’t file his threatened lawsuit until December 2021, more than three years later. You’d think a well-educated lawyer would know his claim came too late to succeed.
Ramal-Shah argued he brought his lawsuit in time because he didn’t discover the material facts to support his claim until the year he filed his lawsuit. The judge disagreed and ruled the two-year limitation period had expired. Smith threw the case out and ordered Ramal-Shah to pay the Jones family $15,000 of their legal costs.
And that’s not the end of the lawyer’s bad sugar rush. Ramal-Shah is awaiting a decision from the Law Society Tribunal on allegations of professional misconduct in how he dealt with his lawsuit.
mmandel@postmedia.com
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