Celebrity gossip outlet TMZ says it has obtained a civil lawsuit by Wal-Mart heiress Paige Laurie Dubbert against her husband, Patrick Bode Dubbert, shortly after filing for divorce and alleging he funneled large sums of money through a retail shopping center in Malibu he was running.
Paige and Bo Dubbert were identified in 2011 as owners of the Trancas Market shopping center in Malibu. The TMZ report indicates that Paige is the principal owner of the retail shopping center, which it does not identify by name.
According to the TMZ report, Paige alleges that Bo hired a friend as co-manager of the retail shopping center. The two men then made themselves general managers of the project, and increased their fees from $15,000 a month to $70,000 a month. The lawsuit alleges both were unqualified for the contracting positions.
Paige Dubbert also alleges in her lawsuit, according to the TMZ report, that Bo Dubbert was being paid $250,000 per year to manage the project, on top of other fees.
According to TMZ, Paige Dubbert cited irreconcilable differences in filing for divorce, and under the terms of a prenuptial agreement will pay spousal support.
Paige Laurie Dubbert is the granddaughter of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton. Her parents are Bill Laurie and Nancy Walton Laurie, the daughter of Bud Walton.
After the Dubberts purchased the shopping center in 2011, Rosch Company, LLC. oversaw construction during a comprehensive renovation and expansion project. The Rosch website lists three locations nationwide: one in Texas, one in Malibu and a headquarters in O’Fallon, Mo.
Bo Dubbert is reportedly a native of Jefferson City, Mo., and married Paige Laurie Dubbert in 2004 in a private wedding in Columbia, Mo.
Bo Dubbert is listed as vice president for Rosch Company West in Plantation, Fla., according to a business listing from 2008. The Florida branch does not appear on the Rosch website, and the company’s filing status is now listed as inactive.
Calls to Rosch Company, LLC president Scott Rozier’s business in O’Fallon, Mo., and Rozier’s cell phone were not returned Tuesday. Calls to the construction trailer at the Trancas Market shopping center rang indefinitely with no voicemail.
A resident who lives nearby told The Malibu Times on Tuesday that the construction trailer at Trancas has appeared empty for two months, with no one coming or going.