Real Housewives of Miami star Lenny Hochstein is addressing the sexual assault allegations being made against him in a new lawsuit.
“I’ve never drugged or raped anyone in my life.” Hochstein, 59, claimed to Us Weekly on Monday, June 8. “I know who this girl is. She is a girl I met over a year ago and I have a video of her leaving my house the next morning smiling and dancing.”
Hochstein admitted that he and the woman did participate in sexual activity but he vehemently denied that it was rape.
“I absolutely did not drug anyone,” he told Us. “I did not rape anyone and would never do that in my life.”
Hochstein alleged there are witnesses who can advocate on his behalf. He also questioned the alleged victim for not reaching out to the authorities.
“If you feel like you were raped, why would you not go to the police?” he continued. “No one from the police has reached out to me.”
Earlier on Monday, news broke that a woman anonymously filed a lawsuit in civil court against Hochstein for sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. According to court documents obtained by Us, the woman, who has been referred to as Jane Doe, accused Hochstein of drugging and raping her after she was invited to a party at his house on Star Island in Miami.
She’s asking the court for more than $50,000, including attorneys fees and costs.
Doe claimed that she was visiting Miami from London in May 2025. While out at the Sopra Club, Doe met another man, who she refers to in court docs as a “decoy,” invited her to the Star Island home for an alleged party. She claimed that when she arrived at the property there wasn’t a party.
After meeting Hochstein, Doe accused him of repeatedly hitting on her and she rejected his advances.
He allegedly “offered to give her a tour of the Star Island” home that ended in his bedroom at around 3 a.m. when he allegedly “kissed” her and she “immediately told him that things would not go any further and that she would not be having sex with him.” She allegedly “repeated the refusal multiple times throughout the night.”
She also claimed he gave her a sleeping pill and she took it because he is a doctor. (Hochstein is a well-known plastic surgeon.)
Doe claimed that after she took the pill, he “began making increasingly aggressive and continuous sexual advances.”
She further claimed that he “attempted to remove her underwear with his hand” which she refused, and she allegedly told him that “she would not be having sex with him.”
Doe claimed that she blacked out shortly after taking the pill and woke up the next morning “extremely hazy” when he “attempted to have sex with her.”
At that point, she “realized that her underwear had been removed from her body at some point during her period of unconsciousness,” per the docs.
Doe claimed that he told her that “she should have sex with him because the two of them had already had sex the night before.”
She alleged that she was “incapable of giving and did not give valid consent to any sexual contact.”
UPDATE — 4/15/26, 11:42 a.m. ET: The Real Housewives of Miami star Lisa Hochstein has turned herself in to authorities. Hochstein’s attorney, Jayne Weintraub, confirmed to TMZ on Wednesday, April 15, that the surrender was voluntary and her client “has nothing to hide” as the legal process plays out. Hochstein posed for a mugshot before […]
Doe claimed in a text message exchange between them following the incident, Hochstein told her that he had “given her melatonin.”
However, Doe claimed in the docs that it was Ambien because she remembered what it looked like and researched it online.
TMZ was first to report the news of the lawsuit filing.
Lenny rose to fame for appearing on Real Housewives of Miami alongside ex-wife Lisa Hochstein. Lisa made her debut during season 2 which aired in 2012. She has remained on the cast since. On the Bravo series, Lenny and Lisa endured multiple issues including their fertility struggles and a tumultuous divorce. The exes split in 2022 and finalized their divorce two years later.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
