Kouri Richins tried to ‘profit’ from husband’s murder: lawsuit

Accused husband killer Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book about grief over his death, tried to “profit from his passing,” according to new $13 million lawsuit filed against her.

The suit, filed in state court Tuesday by Katie Richins, the sister of Kouri Richins’ late husband Eric Richins, insists the alleged murderer funneled cash from the husband’s bank accounts, diverted money intended to cover his taxes and obtained a $250,000 fraudulent loan before his death in March 2022.

Richins is also accused in the civil suit of taking secret insurance policies out on her husband’s life.

Eric’s estate is seeking millions of dollars in damages from Richins for alleged financial wrongdoing and also hopes to put the brakes on future sales of “Are You With Me?,” the children’s book about an angel-wing-clad deceased father watching over his sons that Richins peddled in the wake of Eric’s death.

“Kouri committed the foregoing acts in calculated, systematic fashion and for no reason other than to actualize a horrific endgame — to conceal her ruinous debt, misappropriate assets for the benefit of her personal businesses, orchestrate Eric’s demise, and profit from his passing,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit comes less than 3 weeks after Richins, 33, filed her own suit against the estate claiming she deserves money and physical assets outlined in their prenuptial agreement.

She is seeking half the equity in the couple’s $1.9 million home, $2 million in proceeds from the sale of Eric’s share of a stone masonry business after his death, all of his tangible personal property and more.

Eric’s family has pushed back against any of Richins’ financial claims and have consistently fingered her as a cash grabber since she was charged with his murder in May, over a year after she allegedly slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a Moscow mule cocktail she made for Eric.

They believe Richins killed Eric over a $2 million mansion that she wanted to buy and flip, but he refused to pay the hefty price tag.

The dead man’s family told investigators that he planned to tell his wife they were not buying the mansion — on the same day she was also told she was being cut out of Eric’s will.

Richins instead allegedly killed Eric and bought the 22,000-square-foot unfinished home the next morning and threw a celebration party with friends just hours later.

The day of the party, Eric’s sisters reportedly went to the couple’s home in Kamas and “began threatening and verbally accosting Kouri.”

Richins put the mansion back on the market just two weeks later, trying to more than double her money by flipping it for nearly $5 million.

In the following months, Richins made several television and radio appearances to promote her self-published book which Eric’s family said makes several references to events and details from his life and his relationship with his children.

Richins’ attorney, Skye Lazaro, did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment regarding the lawsuit against the mother.

Lazaro previously argued that the prosecution’s case based on Richins’ financial motives proved she was “bad at math,” not that she was guilty of murder.

The defense lawyer also alleged that prosecutors had “simply accepted” Eric’s family’s claims that she poisoned him and had worked backward in an effort to support it.”

With Post wires