‘Real Housewife’ Tamra Barney Loses $3k Court Battle!

By:Radar Staff

June 25 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET

By Alexis Tereszcuk - RadarOnline.com Entertainment Editor

Tamra Barney is battling with her co-stars on The Real Housewives of Orange County, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that she's also just lost a court battle and has to pay out $3,000!

The stunning blonde was sued in small claims court by Heather Hummel for breach of contract and she lost the suit.

Hummel claimed that when she was hired in 2011 to ghost-write Tamra’s book, she was not given the material she needed from Tamra to complete the memoir and was unable to meet the publisher’s deadlines.

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The clerk of the Superior Court of California in Monterey County exclusively told RadarOnline.com that the judge ruled in favor of Heather and ordered Tamra to pay her $3,000, plus $110.00 in court fees.

Heather told RadarOnline.com that Tamra and her fiancé Eddie Judge were in the courtroom in Monterey County in early June to fight the case, but the judge sided against her.

“I’m so glad the judge sided with me and not with Tamra and that the ruling was in my favor,” Heather exclusively tells us.