VAN NUYS (CBSLA) – A woman is seeking more than $500,000 from a man and a woman who she alleges conned her into making a loan in 2021 to a man she thought was singer Kenny Chesney, but who instead was someone else by the same name and who has never repaid her.
The defendants in the Van Nuys Superior Court lawsuit brought Thursday by realtor Patricia Linson are Kenny Chesney — but not the entertainer — and Nayri Apelian, who Linson says had an impressive business background, making the plaintiff more confident that she would be making the loan to the actual country singer. Chesney told Linson that Apelian was his partner, according to the suit.
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The lawsuit’s allegations include fraud, breach of contract and unjust enrichment. Linson seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Representatives for the defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.
Linson was contacted in February 2021 through Linkedin by a man claiming to be Chesney, the suit states. Through subsequent conversations, the man convinced Linson into believing he was the actual singer, that his accounts were temporarily frozen and that if Linson advanced him money, he would repay her with interest within six months, the suit states.
“What ultimately gave (Linson) the confidence to loan Chesney money was when he brought defendant Nayri Apelian into the picture,” the suit states.
Linson’s subsequent…
