While the Brinkerhoff family of restaurateurs publicly proclaims it has moved on from the biting divorce proceedings that divided its half-dozen eateries, matriarch Renee Brinkerhoff now contends in court that her ex-husband is clandestinely scheming to retake restaurants.

The supposed scheme, which involves a family friend and his brother demanding $4.5 million from Renee, comes at a financially precarious time for her businesses after she recently opened La Loma restaurants in Parker and Greenwood Village and is trying to turn around La Loma in Denver’s McGregor Square, which was hemorrhaging money when she took it over.

“(Gene Atkinson) believed and intended that this leverage would create a situation in which William would have the ability to either retake control of the La Loma enti

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