The growing older tech mogul who spends $2 million a yr to get an 18-year-old physique was a serial cheater who dumped his fiancée whereas she was present process breast most cancers remedies, in accordance with a bombshell lawsuit filed by his jilted lover.
Bryan Johnson, 45, made headlines final month together with his expensive routine of train, particular weight-reduction plan and even being hooked as much as a machine that counts the variety of his nighttime erections.
However his former flame, TV actress Taryn Southern, alleged in a grievance that the multimillionaire pressured her to simply accept his philandering way of life and kicked her out of their Los Angeles residence after her most cancers analysis.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom in October 2021, Southern claims Johnson was “manipulative” and “controlling” throughout their three-year relationship, which resulted in 2019.
Johnson, in flip, accuses Southern of trying to extort him by “threaten[ing] to make outlandish and salacious allegations about [him] in public boards except he paid her exorbitant calls for,” in accordance with a separate submitting.
When reached by The Publish on Thursday, a lawyer for Southern declined to remark. Inquiries to Johnson’s attorneys went unanswered.
Southern — who has made visitor appearances on “Guidelines of Engagement,” “New Lady” and “American Dad!” — moved in with Johnson 4 months after they first met in 2016, in accordance with the court docket papers. In March 2018, they acquired engaged, she stated.
However the romance with the divorced health nut turned rocky.
Southern claims Johnson “pressured her into letting him have intercourse with different girls” regardless of her “repeated requests for monogamy,” in accordance with the submitting.
Southern, a YouTube actress, alleges that Johnson exhibited “manipulative” and “controlling” conduct. Getty Photos for Tribeca Movie Fe
She additionally alleged Johnson had flings with “greater than a dozen girls” throughout their relationship, paid for prostitutes and pursued girls by “Sugar Daddy” apps, in accordance with the court docket submitting.
Johnson, who made his fortune by promoting cost processing agency Braintree Fee Resolution to eBay for $800 million in money, demanded Southern “share a full record of her previous sexual companions with him and describe the sexual acts that passed off,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
Southern alleges in court docket papers that Johnson demanded she element the variety of sexual companions she had earlier than they met. Instagram/Taryn Southern
Johnson claimed he wanted to know her previous exploits as a result of “he was involved about struggling any reputational danger on account of her having been with or dated different males” — though he “had been relationship — and sleeping with — a myriad of girls after his divorce and earlier than assembly her,” in accordance with the court docket submitting.
His fanatical insistence on privateness required Southern to “talk with him solely through the personal messenger app, Sign, the place he might set messages to vanish so as to restrict information of his communications,” the lawsuit states. Johnson was additionally alleged to have used “a variety of burner telephones.”
Southern alleges that she was kicked out of Johnson’s residence whereas present process remedy for breast most cancers. WireImage
Southern and Johnson ended their three-year relationship in 2019. Instagram/Taryn Southern
Southern offered companionship in addition to “mental {and professional}” providers for varied enterprise initiatives, in accordance with the court docket submitting.
She helped Johnson with “the event and advertising and marketing of his private model, help with a documentary in regards to the mind he hoped to finance, advertising and marketing efforts for his kids’s guide, recommendation and insights on a number of enterprise investments, and the event and execution of branding [and] advertising and marketing initiatives for his self-financed firm, Kernel,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
Johnson is the 45-year-old magnate recognized for his excessive anti-aging routine. Bryan Johnson/Blueprint
Johnson had agreed to offer “lifelong monetary assist” to Southern, although he reneged as soon as she was recognized with breast most cancers, in accordance with the lawsuit.
Johnson is alleged to have informed Southern that she grew to become a “internet unfavourable” and a “dangerous deal” for him, the lawsuit states.
As a part of the couple’s separation, the lawsuit alleges that Johnson breached “an specific oral or implied settlement whereby he would pay $149,000 towards her dwelling and transferring bills in alternate for Ms. Southern’s promise to start out on the lookout for a brand new place to dwell as quickly as potential.”
Johnson spends upwards of $2 million a yr to get an 18-year-old physique. Bryan Johnson/Blueprint
Southern is in search of unspecified damages from Johnson.
Johnson’s attorneys filed court docket papers claiming that Southern signed three contracts together with her former fiancé which contained “necessary arbitration provisions” that require adjudicating the case out of the California court docket system.
In court docket papers, Johnson’s attorneys accused her of violating the phrases of her written contracts that stipulated any disputes be settled by the arbitration course of.
“Now on at the least her thirdset of attorneys, [Southern] has turned to the court docket system in an try to disparage Mr. Johnson into relenting” to her calls for for cash, in accordance with a court docket submitting by Johnson’s attorneys.
Johnson reportedly employs a military of 30 medical doctors and regenerative well being specialists. Bryan Johnson/Blueprint
“Mr. Johnson refuses to be extorted,” the attorneys wrote within the court docket submitting.
“The correct discussion board for airing these baseless grievances — and resolving Mr. Johnson’s forthcoming claims in opposition to [Southern] for her misconduct and violation of her contracts — is arbitration,” the submitting states.
Johnson gained notoriety final month after he revealed he pays a workforce of 30 medical doctors and regenerative assist specialists to supervise his excessive wellness routine.
His aim is to finally have all of his main organs — together with his mind, liver, kidneys, tooth, pores and skin, hair, penis and rectum — functioning as they had been in his late teenagers, Johnson stated.