The Moment
Denise Richards’ estranged husband Aaron Phypers is staring down eviction from a $3.3 million Calabasas mansion, and his 83-year-old parents and brother could be walking out the door with him.
According to a recent Los Angeles court ruling, the landlord has been granted possession of the roughly 7,000-square-foot home after months of unpaid rent. A further decision could tack on about $84,000 in alleged back rent.
Into that mess walks Aaron’s mom, Patricia, who has now started a public GoFundMe titled “Please Help My Son Aaron – A Grandmother’s Cry for Justice”. Her goal: $110,000. The reality: just over $1,300 raised from a handful of donors as of this week, per the campaign page.
In the GoFundMe description, Patricia paints a dire picture: utilities allegedly being shut off, her pension gone, and her son “cut off, slandered, starved, wrongfully arrested, and left with nothing.” She claims the family spent their life savings caring for Richards’ many animals and were then abandoned with the bills.
Layer on top of that a looming January 7 court date, where Aaron is expected to argue he’s owed money tied to Denise’s lucrative OnlyFans content and expenses for caring for her dogs, and you’ve got the kind of Hollywood divorce drama even reality TV couldn’t script this hard.
The Take
I don’t know about you, but when a Real Housewife’s ex goes from a 6,985-square-foot Calabasas spread to a GoFundMe, it feels less like a plot twist and more like a warning label for late-life love stories in Hollywood.
On one side, you have a genuine, serious issue: an older couple potentially losing their housing. That’s not gossip fodder; that’s scary, real-world stuff. Eviction is traumatic whether your zip code is Calabasas or Cleveland.
On the other, you’ve got a very online storyline: a public “cry for justice” that just happens to land right before a high-stakes court hearing, complete with accusations of “Hollywood power,” false allegations, and a battle over who owns the content from a reported six-figure-a-month OnlyFans account.
Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers lose home amid $84K rent dispute. Judge grants eviction. More: https://t.co/dKBHehs2wv pic.twitter.com/c8LvNv20Zr
— Complex (@Complex) December 31, 2025
The optics? Rough. When your son is arguing he owns the rights to his famous ex’s OnlyFans, allegedly worth around $250,000 a month, a family GoFundMe for basic survival looks less like a safety net and more like a pressure campaign. It’s hard for people to square “we’re broke” with “there might be a quarter-million a month on the table”-even if legally, those two things can be true at the same time.
This whole saga feels like watching a very expensive game of “Who Left the Dogs With the Bill” play out in public. Patricia says they drained their savings caring for Denise’s pets. Denise has claimed she hasn’t lived there in two years and moved her belongings and 15 dogs out months ago. Somewhere between those two versions of reality is the unglamorous truth about who was supposed to pay what, and when.
The bigger cultural hit here is how normal it now seems to take every phase of a breakup-financial, emotional, legal-straight to the internet. We’re not just watching divorces anymore; we’re watching fundraising strategies, narrative framing, and reputation wars all happen in real time.
Still, I’ll say this: whatever you think of Denise, Aaron, or the dogs, the phrase “my parents could be on the streets” should stop everyone cold. You can side-eye the strategy and still feel for aging parents who followed their son into a life they clearly couldn’t afford without everything else going right.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- A Los Angeles court has granted the landlord possession of the Calabasas mansion once shared by Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers, citing non-payment of rent, with a separate decision pending on tens of thousands in alleged back rent, according to the ruling described in recent court filings.
- A public GoFundMe titled “Please Help My Son Aaron – A Grandmother’s Cry for Justice” exists, launched by Aaron’s mother Patricia on December 4, with a stated goal of $110,000 and just over $1,300 raised from a small number of donors as of midweek, per the campaign page.
- Patricia’s GoFundMe description claims the family’s utilities are being shut off and that her pension is gone, and alleges that the family took responsibility for multiple animals belonging to Denise Richards, including dogs and cats.
- A divorce case between Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers is active; he filed in July 2025 after roughly six years of marriage, per Los Angeles County court records.
- Denise Richards has an active OnlyFans presence and has previously been reported as earning significant income from it.
Unverified / Alleged (Treat With Caution):
- Patricia’s claims that Aaron has been “destroyed by false allegations, Hollywood power, and a system determined to silence him,” as well as her statements that he has been “cut off, slandered, starved, wrongfully arrested, and left with nothing,” are her allegations, not established facts.
- The claim that Aaron and his parents are owed large sums for caring for Denise’s dogs, and that they spent their life savings doing so, is the family’s argument, expected to be raised in court.
- A reported source close to the family saying Aaron is completely broke, unable to work due to a lack of necessary documentation, and that his elderly parents will be “put on the streets” has not been independently substantiated.
- Aaron’s assertion that he owns the copyrights to all of Denise Richards’ OnlyFans content, and any suggestion that the account earns around $250,000 a month, are his side’s claimed figures and remain in dispute.
- Any implication that Denise personally caused the state of the home’s interior, which was previously shown in a messy condition, is contested; she has stated she had not lived there for roughly two years before removing her belongings and dogs.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you haven’t kept up since the Charlie Sheen era, here’s the quick rewind. Denise Richards, now 50s, is a former Bond girl and long-time actress who later joined the Beverly Hills branch of the Real Housewives universe. She married Aaron Phypers, a holistic-health type previously linked to actress Nicollette Sheridan, in 2018. Their relationship-and Aaron’s somewhat spiritual, somewhat eyebrow-raising on-camera presence-became a storyline on reality TV. In recent years, Denise found a fresh revenue stream on OnlyFans, while the couple reportedly lived in a large rental in Calabasas. By July 2025, the marriage had broken down; Aaron filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences, and they’ve been untangling homes, pets, and money ever since.
What’s Next
The next big moment is the January 7 hearing, where Aaron is expected to argue that he and his parents are owed money-potentially tied both to Denise’s digital earnings and to the alleged cost of caring for her animals. That’s likely where we’ll get a clearer sense of what’s documented versus what’s just emotionally charged storytelling.
For Denise, the legal strategy so far has reportedly included asking the court for spousal support. She has not publicly addressed Aaron’s reported claim that he owns her OnlyFans content, which suggests her lawyers may prefer to argue that one in front of a judge rather than the court of public opinion.
For the Phypers family, the more urgent question is practical: where do they go if and when the eviction fully kicks in? Even if Aaron ultimately wins some kind of financial judgment, that money-if it ever shows up-won’t magically materialize in time to keep the lights on this week.
Bigger picture, this case is one to watch for how celebrity exes try to claim a piece of each other’s online income. If an ex can successfully argue they own or share rights to content on platforms like OnlyFans, that could open a whole new front in already-messy Hollywood divorces.
Until then, the GoFundMe sits online, the mansion clock is ticking, and a once-glossy TV marriage is ending in the most 2020s way possible: part courtroom, part social feed, part fundraising page.
Where do you draw the line between a legitimate cry for help and a public pressure tactic when famous exes take their financial battles online?
Sources
Los Angeles Superior Court eviction ruling and related filings regarding the Calabasas rental property (late December 2025); public GoFundMe campaign “Please Help My Son Aaron – A Grandmother’s Cry for Justice” by Patricia Phypers, description and totals viewed in early January 2026; Los Angeles County divorce filings for Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers (July 2025).
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