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David Sugarman is a business consultant to celebrities who has a unique skill set that allows him to thrive in the challenging arenas of finance and sports. He held the position of co-chair for the Mount Sinai Founders organization, participated on the board of directors for Miami Children’s Hospital, and was honored as the Businessman of the Year by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. But for the past eight years, Sugarman’s greatest fight hasn’t been in boardrooms—it has been in the courtroom, battling his purported vindictive ex-wife to see his children.

It's alleged that his former spouse, Shelly Sugarman, may have manipulated the judicial system to keep him separated from his kids. Reading through legal filings, it appears that Shelly Sugarman not only finessed David's finances, but allegedly executed a strategic smear campaign against him. This scarlet woman has continued living a life of luxury, seemingly bouncing from one wealthy man to another. She's out here partying and living it up in a $15 million apartment in Sunny Isles, Florida, driving a Bentley, while telling the courts she has no money in her Birkin bag. Her latest sugar daddy, Yoel Altman, is nearly three times her age and appears to be funding her designer lifestyle.

Despite years of legal battles, filings in New York and Florida, and tireless efforts to relocate his case to Florida, Mr. Sugarman has never wavered in his commitment to fight for his children. Shelly Sugarman seems to be reading from the playbook of parental alienation; a devastating form of abuse that leaves children deprived of a loving parent. As the world watches this story unfold, one thing is certain—David Sugarman is a man who does not back down, remaining resilient and proving that no amount of deceit from an alleged former sex worker can break a man who refuses to quit.

"Children would never cut a parent out of their life.  It would have to be taught to them.  Ms. Sugarman’s brazen campaign of alienating the children from Mr. Sugarman is a direct and willful violation of one of the prime duties of parenthood.  Thankfully for the Orders from Circuit Judge Spencer Multack, a Guardian Ad Litem and Psychologist have been working hard to ensure that the children have two parents, not one." - Sandy T. Fox, Esquire