{"id":2450672,"date":"2026-06-08T22:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2450672"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:21:57","slug":"lenny-hochstein-responds-to-claim-he-drugged-sexual-assaulted-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lenny-hochstein-responds-to-claim-he-drugged-sexual-assaulted-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Hochstein responds to claim he drugged, sexual assaulted a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lenny Hochstein is denying accusations that he drugged and raped a woman in Miami after the alleged victim hit him with a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Page Six, the \u201cReal Housewives of Miami\u201d star said, \u201cI have never drugged or raped anyone.\u00a0This is a girl I met over a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she believed she was raped I would think you would go to the police, not ask for money over a year after the fact,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A Jane Doe is suing Lenny for sexual battery and infliction of emotional distress, claiming he lured her into his mansion, gave her a drug and sexually assaulted her in May 2025, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/08\/lenny-hochstein-accused-drugging-woman-lawsuit\/\">first reported by TMZ<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lenny Hochstein (pictured here in an Instagram selfie) denied accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman after a Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against him. <span class=\"credit\">lennyhochstein\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cReal Housewives of Miami\u201d star (seen above) told Page Six in a statement, \u201cI have never drugged or raped anyone.\u00a0This is a girl I met over a year ago.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@lennyhochstein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>According to the lawsuit filed June 5, the woman \u2014 identified only as a British model in the court docs \u2014 says she met Lenny, 59, at Sopra Club, an exclusive, private members-only lounge in Miami Beach on or about May 1 last year.<\/p>\n<p>She claims the celebrity plastic surgeon then invited her \u2014 via a younger man used as a decoy, she believes \u2014 to an after-party on Star Island, an ultra-exclusive and private gated community, but that there was no after-party.<\/p>\n<p>After being left alone with Lenny at his residence, she alleges he made repeated sexual advances, all of which she claims she shut down, and gave her what he called a \u201cvery common sleeping pill.\u201d The woman said she \u201clost consciousness and blacked out\u201d and has \u201cno memory of any events\u201d from then until the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, the woman claims Lenny attempted to have sexual relations with her the next morning \u2014 which she again said she refused \u2014 and told her they had sex the night before, though she repeatedly rejected his advances before she passed out.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Doe claims Lenny told her he gave her melatonin, but it was allegedly later determined to be Ambien \u2014 a prescription drug to treat insomnia or troubled sleeping that \u201cmay cause you to do things while you are still asleep that you may not remember the next morning,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/drugs-supplements\/zolpidem-oral-route\/description\/drg-20061195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is not currently seeking punitive damages \u2014 subject to future amendments \u2014 and is requesting a trial by jury.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lenny (pictured here) continued, \u201cIf she believed she was raped I would think you would go to the police, not ask for money over a year after the fact.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@lennyhochstein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The woman is suing Hochstein (pictured here) for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the lawsuit, filed June 5. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@lennyhochstein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lenny was previously married to fellow \u201cReal Housewives of Miami\u201d star Lisa Hochstein. They <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/11\/23\/celebrity-news\/rhom-star-lisa-hochstein-finalizes-divorce-from-ex-husband-lenny-two-years-after-split\/\">finalized their divorce in November 2024<\/a> after an intense two-year legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>Lenny initiated the split when he\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/05\/23\/lenny-hochstein-files-for-divorce-from-lisa-hochstein\/\">filed for divorce<\/a>\u00a0from his wife after 12 years of marriage in May 2022, prompting an expensive and long fight in court that Lisa, 43, said cost her\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/04\/03\/entertainment\/lisa-hochstein-has-spent-thousands-on-excruciating-divorce-from-lenny\/\">\u201ctens of thousands of dollars in attorney\u2019s fees.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They share two children together: son Logan, 12, and daughter Elle, 6.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hochstein was previously married to \u201cRHOM\u201d star Lisa Hochstein. They share two children together: son Logan and daughter Elle. (The family of four are photographed above.) <span class=\"credit\">lennyhochstein\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The two had an extremely contentious two-year divorce, which they finalized in November 2024. <span class=\"credit\">lisahochstein\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April, Lisa and her ex-boyfriend Jody Glidden <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/rhom-star-lisa-hochstein-hit-with-criminal-charges-ex-arrested\/\">were hit with shocking criminal charges<\/a>. The former couple faced one count each of interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.<\/p>\n<p>According to the docs, between March 12 and March 31, 2023, Lisa and Glidden \u201cunlawfully and\u00a0intentionally\u201d intercepted, tried to\u00a0intercept or\u00a0tried to have someone else intercept \u201coral statements by Leonard Hochstein and those Leonard Hochstein spoke with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the charges<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/19\/celebrity-news\/rhom-star-lisa-hochsteins-eavesdropping-case-takes-surprising-turn\/\"> are now being dismissed<\/a>. Their attorneys, Jayne Weintraub and Howard Srebnick, told us last month that \u201call charges\u201d against the duo \u201cwill be dismissed [in] mid-June without any admission of guilt or conviction\u201d after they \u201creached an agreement with prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenny Hochstein is denying accusations that he drugged and raped a woman in Miami after the alleged victim hit him with a lawsuit. In a statement to Page Six, the \u201cReal Housewives of Miami\u201d star said, \u201cI have never drugged or raped anyone.\u00a0This is a girl I met over a year ago.\u201d \u201cIf she believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2450673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[44729,350799,24003,481395,23662,345936,21913,394403],"class_list":["post-2450672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bravo","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-lenny-hochstein","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-miami","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Lenny-Hochstein-responds-to-claim-he-drugged-sexual-assaulted-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450674,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450672\/revisions\/2450674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}