Aaron Kaufman Fired Over Tara Reid Racy Bowling Photos, Spending On ‘Sharknado’ Star, Suit Says

Aaron Kaufman, a high-powered insurance company exec, was fired in part over racy photos of Tara Reid, the Sharknado star who is also Kaufman’s gal pal, taken in a bowling alley at an event where Kaufman picked up the tab — on the company credit card.

The bizarre story comes from a counter-lawsuit filed by insurance giant Blue Shield of California against Kaufman, its former Chief Technology Officer, who sued the health insurer on April 6 for wrongful termination after it fired him earlier this year.

Kaufman says in his own suit that Blue Shield canned him as a way to shut him up after he blew the whistle on financial hanky-panky inside the mega-firm, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times.

But Blue Shield says the only monetary misdeeds were committed by Kaufman himself, using his personal corporate expense account to woo Tara Reid, the 39-year-old fading starlet who shot to fame on the back of a small but pivotal role in the 1998 cult classic film The Big Lebowski only to see her star fizzle.

Lately, however, Reid has seen her career get a shot on the arm from the ultra-ironic Sharknado TV-movie franchise, as well as from her own attention grabbing online photo postings, featuring herself in scantily clad poses.

It was exactly one such posting that particularly offended Blue Shield, according to the counter-suit.

That came at a Blue Shield employee bowling night at a San Francisco alley, an event where Reid whipped off her shirt and posed for photos clad only her bra and jeans, including this one.

Though the photos drew a considerable amount of attention in the media, including in The Inquisitr with the story at this link, Blue Shield was not amused.

“At some point during the evening, Mr. Kaufman’s girlfriend acted inappropriately, taking inappropriate photographs of herself and sharing them,” the insurer asserted in the lawsuit.

“Word of the behavior at the bowling alley event spread quickly at Blue Shield and caused a great disturbance within the company. Employees were embarrassed,” the suit states.

According to the Times, Blue Shield confirmed that “Mr. Kaufman’s girlfriend” was, in fact, Tara Reid.

In all, the company alleges that Kaufman blew more than a hundred grand on his company credit card, much of it on wooing Tara Reid — who herself has a reported net worth of about $2 million — including almost $17,500 on a Florida vacation with Reid, and more than $800 for a single night at a ritzy Fort Lauderdale hotel with the American Pie star.

According to the suit, while he was dating Tara Reid, Aaron Kaufman claimed when he was fired that he used the company credit card only because his wife, whom he was then divorcing, had somehow “locked up” his bank accounts.

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