Heidi Fleiss, porn star sued over Vegas business purchase

By Steve Green

Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 | 1:55 a.m.

Celebrity Heidi Fleiss and two business associates have been sued over allegations they fraudulently engineered the purchase of a Las Vegas-area pet-grooming business.

Jeffery Marvian, who has been involved in divorce proceedings with his spouse Nickol Marvian, filed suit Monday in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas against Nickol Marvian, Fleiss and former porn star Kendra Rossi.

None of the defendants could be reached for comment Wednesday.

Jeffery Marvian charges that Nickol Marvian was served with a "Joint Preliminary Injunction" as part of the divorce proceedings barring her from transferring assets without court approval.

In an alleged violation of the injunction, Nickol Marvian sold the couple's Little Buddy Bath LLC business to Fleiss and Rossi in a deal in which Nickol Marvian was hired as the firm's manager in preparation for a potential reality show involving the business, the suit charges.

"Defendants Rossi and Fleiss knew that defendant Marvian was in the process of dissolving her marriage," the lawsuit says, also alleging they knew Marvian was trying to hide the purchase from her husband and the divorce court.

"All defendants engaged in a conspiracy to hide the terms of the sale from plaintiff and the Family Court by executing a sales contract which paid defendant Marvian nothing," the suit charges.

"Defendant Marvian surreptitiously received money and other enticements to sell from defendants Rossi and Fleiss related to the sale of the business," the suit claims.

Mr. Marvian says in the suit that during the marriage the couple had borrowed $60,000 against the equity in their home to start the business.

Now, the plaintiff alleges, he's losing proceeds from the business while continuing to have to pay the second mortgage.

The suit, alleging fraud and conspiracy, seeks an injunction barring Fleiss and Rossi from operating the business. It also seeks unspecified general and punitive damages and the imposition of a constructive trust over "monies or business opportunities wrongfully obtained or received by all defendants."

News stories attached to the lawsuit say the business is at Sunset and Sandhill roads. Fleiss got into the dog grooming business after she went to PetSmart's annual meeting in June, according to a report on Fox5Vegas.com.

"When I saw the $6 billion in sales, I was like, ‘There's a lot going on in the pet world,’ and because of the love I have for the birds and the lengths I'll go and what I'll spend on the birds, other people feel the same way about their dogs," Fleiss said in the Fox5 story.

The name of the business has been changed to Dirty Dog and it offers services including hair dying and nail polish for pets. Fleiss also started the Dirty Laundry coin-operated laundry in Pahrump.

An unrelated lawsuit filed against Fleiss in Clark County District Court last year is pending. That suit is over allegations she and her flock of pet birds caused more than $41,000 in damage to a home Fleiss rented in Pahrump.

Fleiss, the former Hollywood madam, has filed a counterclaim against the landlord in that case.