Former Disney star Erik von Detten is being sued by an elderly California couple who claim he convinced them to invest more than $2.1 million of their retirement savings in overpriced gold coins.

Sheila Greenberg, 85, and her husband, Norman Greenberg, 97, filed the lawsuit against von Detten, who is best known for his roles in Disney's "Brink" and "The Princess Diaries," and his former employer, Rosland Capital, in Los Angeles County Superior Court on May 11. The complaint accuses the defendants of financial elder abuse, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and conversion.

According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, the Greenbergs believe Rosland "designed in large part to appeal to senior citizens through their television and internet advertising, direct mail brochures, and high-pressure boiler-room type sales practices."

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The Greenbergs claim they contacted Rosland in 2020 after seeing the television commercials promoting gold as a safe way to protect their wealth.

Once put in touch with von Detten, one of the company's top advisors, the couple disclosed that their combined traditional IRA accounts contained more than $2 million.

"Von Detten earned Sheila’s and Norman's trust. They believed him to be an expert and thus placed their faith completely in Von Detten to make the correct choices and recommendations and expressed as much to him," the court documents state.

On Oct. 19, 2020, the Greenbergs allegedly followed von Detten’s recommendations and purchased more than $999,000 worth of Lady Liberty gold coins. The lawsuit claims Sheila paid $599,654.83 for 797 coins, while Norman paid $399,519.09 for 531 coins.

"They believed that, however valued, Von Detten was taking care of them and the price they paid was a fair price for what they bought and the gold they purchased was worth the money they spent. Afterall, this was an IRA rollover. An investment intended to protect their hard-earned wealth for retirement."

The complaint alleges the coins were sold at a premium of roughly 60%. The Greenbergs claim they paid the equivalent of $3,009.56 per ounce when the spot price of gold was approximately $1,903 per ounce.

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The lawsuit claims the couple lost more than $367,000 in value almost immediately after the first transaction.

The Greenbergs allege von Detten continued contacting them and "hounded" them to invest even more money. The complaint claims Rosland "likely" viewed the couple as a "whale" after learning how much money they had available.

On Nov. 5, 2020, the couple allegedly made another purchase totaling more than $1.14 million. Sheila reportedly bought 885 additional coins for $677,644.50, while Norman purchased 614 coins for $470,139.80.

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The lawsuit claims the second transaction resulted in another immediate loss of more than $418,000.

In total, the Greenbergs allege they paid $2,146,958.22 for coins worth approximately $1,360,925. The complaint claims the couple’s entire traditional IRA accounts were rolled over into the gold investments.

The lawsuit also alleges the physical coins were never delivered to the Greenbergs. Instead, they were sent to Delaware Depository for storage. The couple claims they continued paying fees to maintain their gold IRA accounts and store the coins.

After the retirement accounts were "depleted," the complaint alleges Rosland pursued other sources of money. In August 2021, the Greenbergs allegedly used their family trust to purchase nearly $200,000 worth of additional gold coins.

The lawsuit claims they paid $135,487 for 109 PAMP British Museum Lewis Chessmen coins that were worth approximately $48,832. They also allegedly paid $64,300 for 50 PAMP F1 Abu Dhabi coins that were worth about $22,420.

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The Greenbergs claim they did not realize they had been overcharged until 2025, when they began looking into the value of their holdings. When an Advantage Gold representative allegedly suggested the company operated differently from Rosland, Sheila turned to AI to look into Rosland's business practices, a search that led her to uncover what she described as unethical conduct.

"By their conduct, Defendants took, secreted, appropriated, obtained or retained an unconscionable mark-up over the fair value of no less than $900,000 for a wrongful use, because they knew or should have known that doing so would likely be harmful to Plaintiffs," the documents state.

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"Instead of helping them protect their hard-earned wealth, Defendants helped themselves to it. 49. In addition, Defendants committed financial elder abuse because they took, secreted, appropriated, obtained or retained Plaintiffs’ money with the intent to defraud."

The couple is seeking at least $900,000 in compensatory damages, double damages, punitive damages, prejudgment interest, attorneys’ fees and costs. They have also demanded a jury trial.

A representative for von Detten did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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Larry David eerily crossed paths with O.J. Simpson on the day Nicole Brown Simpson was brutally murdered in 1994.

David, the co-creator of "Seinfeld" and creator/star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," discussed the chilling moment in his newly released authorized biography, "Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David." The book was written by Blake J. Harris.

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On the morning of June 12, 1994, David was eating breakfast at the exclusive Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles alongside his then-wife Laurie, newborn daughter Cazzie and fellow comedy writer Alan Zweibel. Zweibel's wife, Robin, was also at the table.

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Zweibel said that he will never forget that breakfast with Larry, or the date, "because that night O.J. Simpson killed Nicole [Brown Simpson] and Ron Goldman."

"[We] saw him in the dining room the day of the murder!" David said.

In the biography, Zweibel explained that he not only saw Simpson, but interacted with him twice that same day.

"We were having breakfast and all of a sudden I hear somebody say my name: ‘Zwa-bell.’ I turn around. It’s O.J. Simpson," Zweibel said.

He went on to explain how he knew Simpson. "I knew O.J. because I went to the University of Buffalo while he was playing for the [Buffalo] Bills," Zweibel began.

"He was like a god. And when he came to host ‘SNL’ [in 1978], I remember saying to Lorne, ‘This is my hero.’ So I spent a lot of time with O.J. that week. I wrote a lot for that show. And then in subsequent years, we had a mutual friend on Rockingham, and we all had kids around the same age, so we’d see each other at birthday parties and s--- like that," he continued.

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Zweibel said that he also saw Simpson later that afternoon at his daughter's middle school dance recital.

"Our daughters were [both performing]. And on our way out, I again hear a familiar voice," he said.

"S---," O.J. said to Zweibel. "Twice in the same day!"

"Hey, Juice!" Zweibel replied.

Zweibel explained in the biography that he called Simpson by his famous nickname and told him that he had nothing new to share since he had already seen him earlier that day.

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"Though, of course, [in retrospect] what I should have said was ‘Stay home tonight! Order in! Don’t go out!'" he said.

Simpson and Nicole married in 1985 and had two children, Sydney and Justin. They separated in 1992, and Brown filed for divorce after seven years of marriage.

In 1994, Brown and Goldman, her friend, were killed. Simpson was tried for their murders and acquitted in October 1995.

On Oct. 18, The New York Times reported that a mob-linked drug trafficker with ties to Simpson secretly became a jailhouse snitch and claimed to have information about efforts to dispose of evidence, potentially including a murder weapon that was never recovered.

The outlet said that Joseph Ippolito, a former cigarette boat racer, drug trafficker and restaurateur who knew Simpson, had told federal prosecutors he had information on the murder weapon. One has never been recovered.

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Elsewhere in David's biography, he discussed the famous decades before "Seinfeld" when he was a NYC comedian. David was infamous among NYC comedians for walking offstage mid-set, refusing to perform if someone looked at their watch, yelling at paying crowds and needing bouncers to protect him from a "mountain" of a heckler he almost fought.

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"I didn't react well to adversity, so I would just walk off," David said. "I was young. I had a bad temper. And my stuff wasn't very commercial. I couldn't really give [the audience] what they wanted. [Before each set] there was a better chance that I'd bomb than do well. And I just couldn't handle being terrible."

He continued, "Basically, if the audience didn't like me, I didn't see the need for me to continue torturing them, or them to torture me. So, I'd just leave. I guess the best way to describe me onstage was 'unprofessional.'"

David discussed his run-ins with hecklers and wrote that he was always smart about the fights he would have with audience members.

"I did have some fights with the audience, [but] they were really more arguments—I'd say something to them and then they'd say something back. I was never stupid about it, though. I always made sure I had the bouncers behind me any time I said anything," he said.

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Before his career took off, David shared in his biography that he was voted "Least Likely to Accomplish Anything" by his peers in high school. He had a long list of bizarre pre-fame jobs — from carrying a bag of irregular bras down Broadway to driving a half-blind woman in a limo — all while violently rejecting his mother’s desperate pleas for him to become a postal worker.

"She wanted me to be a mailman. She wanted me to work for the post office. She was always begging me to take the civil service test," David said of his mother's pleas.

"Just take the test!! Take the test! What do you have to lose?" he recalled her saying to him.

But the comedian had a very logical reason why he didn't pursue postal work as his profession.

"I think I could have done the 'rain' and the 'snow.' But the hail would have done me in, you know? I'm not gonna be delivering in hail," David said. "I would have gone to the supervisor, 'I'm sorry, I can't deliver in hail. I know you got the big motto up there. But I'm not doing hail!'"

"Emperor Of Nothing: The Making of Larry David" releases on Oct. 20.

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