An angry bride-to-be is suing her ex-fiancée for the cost of their cancelled wedding after he cheated on her at his Las Vegas bachelor party.
Lawyer Lauren Serafin is seeking to recover the cost of a planned honeymoon to the island of Bora Bora and costs for her wedding dress, bridesmaids dresses and invitations.
She was forced to call off their wedding less than four weeks before 170 guests saw the high powered couple walk down the aisle.
According to the lawsuit, Serafin is seeking $62,814 from her ex-fiancée Robert Leighton – who is also a successful Chicago lawyer – after he ‘hooked up’ with a girl he met while in Las Vegas on his bachelor party.
Leighton and the girl, named as Danielle, met at nightclub and later had sex at his hotel, the lawsuit said.
Serafin claimed in her lawsuit that Leighton believed in the ‘Sin City’ advertising slogan of ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’ and tried to hide the one night stand from her.
‘The defendant, seemingly believing that ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,’ denied that anything happened between himself and Danielle in Las Vegas,’ the lawsuit charges.
The lawsuit reveals that Serafin confronted her fiancé, after he returned to Chicago from his trip to Vegas at the end of last July.
Four days after he returned Serafin found text messages from the girl and confronted her boyfriend.
Leighton finally admitted he ‘made out’ with Danielle and then informed Serafin he would not marry her, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County Court in Chicago, Illinois.
The lawsuit also reveals that Danielle did not know Leighton was in Vegas ahead of his planned nuptials and was on his bachelor party.
The suit, which alleges breach of the promise to marry and intentional infliction of emotional distress, is seeking reimbursement totalling $62,814.
This includes money spent on Serafin’s wedding dress, bridesmaid’s dresses, wedding invitations, a band reservation and non-refundable plane tickets and hotel reservations for a honeymoon in Bora Bora.
‘Defendant had a fiduciary duty of implied fidelity to plaintiff,’ the lawsuit says, adding Serafin ‘suffered humiliation’ by having to tell family members, friends and co-workers that the wedding was cancelled and why.
