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Dr. Carroll (Cap) Lesesne said patient’s complaints hurt his business. The lawsuit was tossed.
A Park Avenue plastic surgeon’s $ 13 million lawsuit against a patient who trashed his work has been tossed, the Daily News has learned.
Carroll (Cap) Lesesne, a former boyfriend of Katie Couric’s, said Charlotte Brimecome’s “false†complaints about the quality of work hurt his business, and she should have to pay through her surgically altered nose for trashing him on the Internet, to medical regulators and in her own malpractice suit against him.
“As part of their malicious campaign against Dr. Lesesne,†Brimecome and her financial bigwig husband Ian Brimecome, “fabricated a number of lies about him and his medical practice,†and then “spread the same lies publicly,†accusing him of being a “butcher†and a “danger,†the dissed doc’s suit said.
The English woman had work done by Lesesne in 2008, and charged that Lesesne had removed one of her breast implants without asking, and left her with facial and head scars, a dented nose and a lopsided nipple.
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The “Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon†author maintained he’d done high-quality work, and that she’d initially told him how happy she was with her results â€" including saying “I look younger†â€" before she suddenly started bad-mouthing him.
His federal suit maintained that many of her claims were made up and demonstrably not true and were aimed at getting him stripped of his licenses and doing a nip/tuck on his business.
In a ruling last week, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Alison Nathan sliced away at Lesesne’s suit, finding his business-interference suit was in reality a defamation suit, and that his time to sue Brimecome for defamation had long since expired.
Lesesne’s lawyer, Donald Chase, said he was planning to appeal the ruling.
Brimecome’s malpractice suit, which seeks unspecified damages, is still pending.
dgregorian@nydailynews.com
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