Spinal surgeon divorces his beauty queen wife because she 'led a secret life as a high-end hooker earning $700,000'
A Manhattan spinal surgeon has settled his divorce with his former-beauty queen wife after claiming in court papers that he discovered she had been engaged in sex work.
Dr. Han Jo Kim sought an annulment of his marriage to former Miss USA hopeful Regina Turner, claiming she worked as a high-end call girl before and after their 2015 marriage,' New York Daily News reported, citing court documents.
Special Surgery Dr Kim settled his divorce from Turner before a public court hearing which was scheduled for 10am Monday, a court spokesman told the Daily News.
The divorce papers, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, reportedly allege that Turner earned nearly $700,000 in cash from her clients.
Millionaire surgeon Dr. Kim claimed he first became aware of his wife's double life in December 2020 when he came across an explicit iMessage intended for Turner, which detailed a sexual encounter between her and another man, the court papers reportedly state.
The papers go on to claim that Turner, who won the Miss Connecticut title in 2011, had clients including a New Jersey-based real estate executive and an award-winning lighting designer, New York Daily News reported.
'Not to belabor the obvious but ... defendant clearly committed material fraud upon Dr. Kim by concealing her sale of sexual services in exchange for money prior to the marriage,' Dr. Kim reportedly states in the court documents.
'As is further obvious, plaintiff would never have married defendant absent her lies and concealment.'
A Manhattan spinal surgeon is divorcing his beauty queen wife Regina Turner after claiming he discovered she had been engaged in sex work, court papers reportedly reveal
Dr. Han Jo Kim is seeking an annulment of his marriage to former Miss USA hopeful Regina Turner , claiming she worked as a high-end call girl before and after their 2015 marriage,' New York Daily News reported, citing court documents
He claims she worked as a high-end call girl before and after their 2015 marriage,' New York Daily News reported, citing court documents. They are pictured together
The court documents also reportedly include records of financial transactions, alleged to be payments from clients to Turner.
A hearing was due for Monday as Dr. Kim sought to void the marriage on the grounds that he was a victim of fraud.
He alleged that Turner misled him about other details of her past, including that she had studied science at the University of Connecticut for three years before leaving to compete in the Miss USA pageant, New York Daily News reported, adding that Dr. Kim's papers state that Turner had never graduated high school.
In the court documents, Dr. Kim reportedly alleged that his wife pretended to be out with friends while actually engaging in sex work and also claimed she had to make frequent weeks-long works trips to China relating to a clothing app she was developing,' New York Daily News reported.
'In fact such travel was in connection with defendant's provision of sexual services in exchange for money,' the paper reported the court documents as saying.
New York Daily News said Turner's subpoenaed bank records allegedly showed $675,030 in cash deposits from 2015-2021.
Millionaire surgeon Dr. Kim said he never would have married former Miss Connecticut Regina Turner had he known of her past, according to court documents reported by New York Daily News
It reported that records showed checks for as much as $2,000 each made out to cash and deposited in Turner's account from the New Jersey real estate executive, whom the outlet did not name.
The deposits from the executive totaled $185,5000, according to documents filed by Dr. Kim and reported in New York Daily News.
Meanwhile, the lighting designer's company wired $116,000 to Turner over six years, including many individual payments of $10,000, the outlet reported, citing bank records included in the court filing.
The papers reportedly state that Turner claimed in January to have no income and to be totally reliant on her husband for support.
Dr. Kim earned $3.2million in 2018, according to New York Daily News, which said the couple own an Upper East Side apartment and a waterfront home on Long Island.
DailyMail.com has reached out to lawyers for both Kim and Turner for comment.