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A Bucktown property that was featured on “Windy City Rehab,” but did not end up being renovated on the HGTV show, sold last week after nearly a year on the market, a major price cut and a tree dispute.
Windy City Rehab's Donovan Eckhardt files a $2.2 million defamation suit accusing the home renovation show of portraying him as the 'villain' The former Windy City Rehab star Donovan Eckhardt has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his former series for painting him as the show's 'villain' The reality star is asking for $2.2 million for defamation and emotional distress in the lawsuit filed in Illinois's Cook County Circuit Court on Monday In his filing, Eckhardt claims that he was set up to look like the bad guy on the series thanks to alleged misleading editing
CinemaBlend Fans of HGTV's supremely popular home renovation series Windy City Rehab have been inundated with news about the legal troubles that stars Alison Victoria and Donovan Eckhardt have been going through because of the builds they created for the show. Its early 2019 premiere quickly led to numerous reports of stop work orders, anger from neighbors, and a long string of lawsuits which have yet to be completely resolved. Now, Eckhardt has filed a lawsuit of his own, but where does he stand with Alison Victoria in all of this? Season 2 of Windy City Rehab saw Alison Victoria have to d...
Eckhardt alleges that the show falsely portrays him as a "villain" who stole money from projects. Read the 23-page lawsuit, which was filed in Cook County Circuit Court, below.
The suit states that Chicago contractor Donovan Eckhardt "has suffered from depression, sleeplessness, loss of appetite" and has undergone counseling for the "embarrassing, traumatic and humiliating" experience.