Fake Saudi Princess Countersues AmEx (Also Fake Victoria's Secret Model)

[Khephra]

NEW YORK -- A woman who was sued by American Express over an alleged scam where she posed as a Saudi princess to steal thousands has countersued the company, saying she was mentally incompetent when she opened her account and the company should have known it.

The countersuit was filed by Antoinette Millard, 40, free on $100,000 bail and awaiting trial on attempted grand larceny charges for alleged scams carried out while she posed as a Saudi Arabian princess and a Victoria's Secret model. She was neither.

Millard, a former vice president at the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank, countersued for $2 million in Manhattan's State Supreme Court after Amex obtained a court order of attachment freezing more than $951,000 of her assets for unpaid charges.

Millard's court papers say that to "induce" her to establish a Centurion account, the account through which Amex customers get the rare and envied Centurion "black" card, the company promised she could make flexible payments.

http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fake-saudi-princess-sues,0,3773949.story?coll=sns-ap-business-headlines

[w13rd0]

1. Ah

Brown Brothers Harriman. There's a name I've not heard in a couple...

[signmike]

2. She should take this all the way to the top -

to our fake president.

btw, where did she get the bail money? Discover?

[asjr]

3. And the will recoup their money by raising our interest rates again.

[Voltaire99]

4. Amex's "rare and envied Centurion 'black' card"

While the poor and marginalized are out securing the frontiers of Empire in Iraq, the fat cats back home whip out their rare (and envied!) Centurion black cards, eh?

And let me get this straight: she was vice prez of a bank and yet faked being a Victoria's Secret model and a Saudi Princess, so she, too, could be a Centurion?

Oh, America. You've really hit the skids, haven't you?

[mrbassman03]

5. That was my question...

What is so special about the black card in terms of social status? I know it has all these perks (that you pay for)... but do people really compare credit cards? I try to keep mine buried in my wallet as much as I can...