LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Rick Harrison might accept to negotiate a bargain — this time, with his 81-year-sometime mom.

The "Pawn Stars" ring-leader has been sued by his female parent, Joanne Harrison, who claims she has been cut out of companies, trusts and a condom full of cash and silver.

In a lawsuit filed in Nevada'due south Clark County Commune Court on Thursday, Joanne Harrison lays open some family history and sore feelings that date back 2 decades and appear to accept come to a head effectually the time her married man, "Former Man" Richard Harrison, died on June 25, 2018. When the "Old Man" died, Rick Harrison took control of many aspects of the business organisation and accounts that Joanne Harrison says belong to her, according to the lawsuit.

In add-on to helping her husband lay the groundwork that turned into the "Pawn Stars" show, she says she is entitled to buying in family businesses and holdings including the Pawn Shop (47.5%), Yard&Southward Pawn Shop (fifty%), Harrison Properties (35%) and JoRich (100%). The lawsuit alleges her stake in the businesses has been reduced without her consent, and payments to her accept shrunk in some cases and completely ended in others.

Nexstar'due south KLAS has reached out to Rick Harrison and his publicist for annotate.

"Pawn Stars" is currently in its 19th season with most 600 episodes ambulation on History over the years. Gold & Silver Pawn Shop has get an attraction on Las Vegas Boulevard. Rick Harrison, his son Corey, and Corey'due south friend Austin "Chumlee" Russell accept go celebrities, with long lines of tourists stopping to go through the store in hopes of communicable a glimpse of them.

Amidst the allegations in the lawsuit, Joanne Harrison claims she was forced to sign over her 51% interest in the pawnshop in 2000 or 2001, when Joanne was in a blackout in the hospital.

She likewise claims her son has "failed and refused" to provide documentation detailing the shop's finances. She says Rick has blocked her from accessing the family unit'southward trust, which "had accumulated approximately $500,000 worth of silver and at least $100,000 in cash" before her hubby died.

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Gilded & Argent Pawn Shop on Las Vegas Boulevard. (KLAS)

Rick Harrison had disbursed $25,000 per month to Joanne from 2018 until early 2020, co-ordinate to the lawsuit. Those payments were reduced to $20,000, and then they stopped completely in March 2020, which is when the COVID-19 pandemic began. She did not receive payments for six months (Jan-April, June and October) in 2021.

The lawsuit also claims she was kept in the night near a $3 million loan that was secured using some of her assets.

Joanne Harrison is represented past Las Vegas constabulary firm Hayes Wakayama.