Jilted Doc Sues Ex-Fiancée for Return of $58K Ring
After a whirlwind romance, an Ohio ophthalmologist says, he proposed to the woman he met at a Labor Day party in New York’s upscale Hamptons at a Diamond Cellar store in Columbus only six weeks later.
But it turned out that the $58,000 diamond-and-platinum engagement ring was what Rena Hope Friedman really wanted, says Dr. Roger Adler, 42.
Although their engagement was called off in less than two weeks, she has refused to return it, he says in a New York state-court lawsuit. And, he contends, this isn’t the first time that she’s ended an engagement but held onto the ring, reports the New York Post.
The article doesn’t include any comment from Friedman, 41, or her counsel. His counsel says an engagement ring is the property of the person who purchased it, until the marriage actually occurs.
