NEW ORLEANS — Vanessa Motta, the Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-attorney who is awaiting trial for her alleged role in the , is now accused of gambling large sums of money at a Mississippi casino, violating her bond conditions.
Did she do it?
In response to a U.S. Attorney’s motion to revoke Motta’s bond, she claims it was actually her 72-year-old mother who was feeding more than $100,000 into slot machines since she was hit with a 10-count indictment last year, accusing her of filing fraudulent lawsuits for people who staged intentional accidents with 18-wheelers.
In a signed affidavit, Aura Amelia Motta claims she sometimes uses her daughter’s casino rewards card “playing slot machines, which is a needed break and distraction from various issues, more recently, the dramatic and baseless