Harley Street plastic surgeon dubbed the ‘boob god’ sues art dealer for libel and harassment
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An art dealer faces jail after she was accused of a campaign of harassment against a famous plastic surgeon hailed as the “Breast God.”
Dr. Riccardo Frati is a leading Harley Street surgeon who has operated on celebrities including Towie’s Gemma Collins and Big Brother’s Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace.
His patients have referred to him as the ‘breast god’ for work including giving model Mrs Horgan-Wallace the ‘largest’ implants allowed in the UK.
But Dr. Frati now claims he was the victim of a campaign of libel and harassment by a disgruntled ex-patient, modern art dealer Karen Bowen-Carter.
Dr. Frati says Ms Bowen-Carter, 54, has deliberately spread lies online, claiming he has ‘fraudulently’ given celebrity treatments at a discounted price to get positive reviews.
He is suing her for libel, malicious deceit and harassment at the Supreme Court and last year she agreed not to contact him, his staff or patients.
But she can now go to jail for contempt of court after Dr. Frati filed to have her sent to jail for continuing to contact his patients, contrary to her promise.
Dr. Riccardo Frati is a leading Harley Street surgeon who has operated on celebrities, including Love Island’s Hayley Hughes, who is pictured with the doctor
Dr. Frati now claims he was the victim of a campaign of libel and harassment by disgruntled ex-patient, modern art dealer Karen Bowen-Carter (pictured outside the Supreme Court)
Ms Bowen-Carter denies contempt of court and says the legal promises she made may not even be binding because she was suffering from crippling anxiety at the time she signed.
Dr. Frati is one of the UK’s top cosmetic surgeons and has operated on a large number of celebrities and models.
In 2019, former Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace claimed to have received the largest implants allowed in the UK by the surgeon.
The following year, he appeared on Gemma Collins’ reality show Diva Forever and Ever, discussing plans for a reduction of her double breasts.
At a pre-trial hearing at the Supreme Court, Dr Frati’s attorney David Sherborne told Ms Judge Collins Rice that he vehemently denies all allegations of giving cheap surgeries for good judgments.
Before she posted the allegedly defamatory review to Google in May last year, Ms Bowen-Carter – whom he operated on in November 2020 – had contacted him demanding a refund and ‘compensation’, he claimed.
She said if she didn’t receive the payments she would contact daytime TV shows to “expose” him, the attorney continued.
Soon after, she wrote comments online that the doctor said would be read as an allegation that he had “fraudulently operated on celebrities for half price in exchange for fake social media reviews.”
“It is not true that he has offered such cheap celebrity services for some review,” said Mr Sherborne.
“The defendant knew very well that was not true.”
Her goal when she posted to Google was to “do as much damage as possible” to his company and “effectively blackmail him into paying significant sums of money,” he added.
As part of his case, the doctor last year sought an injunction against Ms Bowen-Carter, which she settled by agreeing to legal ‘commitments’ not to contact him, his staff or patients.
Over the next year, however, she had “repeatedly contacted and harassed Plaintiff’s patients,” Mr Sherborne said.
“It was hoped that this would stop, but it didn’t and that led to the application,” he added.
In 2019, former Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace (pictured left) claimed to have had the largest implants allowed in the UK by the surgeon, and in 2020 he was featured in Gemma Collins’s (pictured right at Proud Cabaret in London earlier this month) reality show Diva Forever and Ever discusses plans for a reduction of her double breasts
Attorney William McBarnet said Ms Bowen-Carter would contest whether she breached the pledges at all.
And he said it was questionable whether they were legally binding in the first place, as there is evidence that she was suffering from anxiety and other mental health issues at the time she agreed.
The judge issued brief directions to continue the contempt case into the new year.
If Mrs Bowen-Carter of West Malling, Kent, is caught in contempt, she could face a two-year prison sentence.
A hearing in Dr. Frati’s libel suit is due in court later this month.