Sonja Morgan has once again been accused of not settling a tab. Earlier this month, the former Real Housewife of New York had a little meltdown at the New York restaurant Tucci, where she allegedly refused to pay $1,000 for what she thought was a comped meal. As a result, she’s apparently no longer welcome at the establishment. It happens to the best of us! Now, another New York–based business said Morgan owed them $20,000, which sounds more serious than an attempted dine and dash after pasta.
When Morgan’s scuffle with the Italian restaurant was made public, the Brooklyn HVAC company Expert Appliance Group Inc. reached out to “Page Six” and said the RHONY star stiffed them. After they completed a job at her former Upper East Side townhouse in February 2024, she paid them nearly $20,000 via Zelle and went on her merry way — until, over a year later, her bank claimed there was “a dispute about a transaction” and Morgan’s money was allegedly removed from the HVAC company’s account without an explanation.
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“What happened to us was frustrating,” an Expert representative told “Page Six,” “The way Chase reversed the full payment after over a year, based only on one-sided statements, without even asking us or looking at documents … made us realize how unprotected small businesses really are in situations like this.”
“Page Six” reached out to Morgan, who said she was “just as perplexed about the situation as Expert” and that it was all a misunderstanding. “Had [the owner] simply texted me — as we’ve always done — to say the [payment] had been reversed I would have addressed it immediately,” she said. The bank reportedly returned the funds to the HVAC company last Wednesday, and, for now, justice is served …
