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Brides-To-Be Stage Bitchfest Outside Dress Shop

phpKbnQ3qPM.jpg If you're going to get into the scamming business, it's probably not a great idea to make your clientele brides-to-be. According to WCBS, about a dozen women getting ready to walk down the aisle showed up screaming at a Yonkers storefront yesterday. There were accusations of assault and the police were brought in as they caused a scene outside of the Lily Fleur Wedding Dress Shop, where they hoped to confront owner Michelle Mears.

Mears allegedly scammed them all out of thousands of dollars by never delivering their dresses after they were paid for. State Senator Jeffrey Klein says Mears has been running this scam for years in and around NYC, closing up shop after taking deposits from clients, then reopening elsewhere under a new name. In the past Mears has also delivered "unwearable" dresses; one old client says she "refused to take the dress because it wasn't what I ordered. It was horrible, there were strings hanging from it, it looked like it was falling apart."

According to Mears, the disgruntled brides simply change their minds too much! She told WCBS, "They may not have liked the fact that they were held to their contract, they may not have liked the fact that we didn't throw things in free. I mean a lot of these girls have an unfair sense of entitlement because they're getting married, that everything should be given to them, but this is a living for us." Mears is now under investigation by the Westchester County district attorney.

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  • lisalou34

    The fact is that many whom made allegations were deposed by her lawyer, this Kevin Duffy in Connecticut and my friend was suppeona for this story that was about Michelle Mears , and many people and companies, including media are now being sued for slander, libel and character assignation. My friend was frustrated and admitted to jumping in this riot, just to get out of dress contract. The story is that another bride made this whole story and that it was a vendetta by the same bride whom worked at the Bronx Reporter, and channel 2 and other family in the media. This same bride made a blog to contact all these people and got the senator involved as when, before he was a senator represented this bride in a lawsuit for personal injury, my friend is a paralegal and her boss and firm found this out. Many think she will get tens of thousands of dollars if not millions for this mess.comment here.

  • robingee

    Oh, For a second there I thought that a bridal shop had staged a Bridezilla fiht to get publicity, much like Peggy's ham incident.

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