Foppoli in his text messages Thursday called all those cases “frivolous and deceitful“ and driven by a desire for a settlement payout.

While he filed a response denying all charges in the largest case from the seven women, he has since ignored requests to produce material relevant to the case attorneys made through the legal process known as discovery, according to Nicole Jaffee, Carrillo’s colleague.

If he has seemingly sought to ignore the lawsuits, the lawyers suing him say he won’t be able to keep that up for long.

In the Abraham case, Carrillo and Jaffee are working with Spencer Kuvin, a high-profile litigator who successfully brought civil lawsuits for the victims of financier and serial sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Foppoli has not responded to that complaint, leading the TV star’s attorneys to ask Sonoma County Judge Christopher Honigsberg to issue a default judgment against him. That motion was granted, opening the possibility that the plaintiffs in the case could begin to seek a damage award from the judge and pursue Foppoli’s assets.

“We are going to ask for a full measure of damages,“ Kuvin said, and then pursue those damages through the court.

Foppoli was defiant. “As long as I have a voice, I will never authorize a single penny to be paid out to any of these false accusers,” he said.

But he also has yet to hire an attorney to defend himself. “I would rather dedicate my money to starting a family with my amazing fiancee who has been so supportive during all of this,” he wrote. He said he would seek representation if he felt it became necessary later.

As the civil cases grind on and the criminal investigation dragged into its second summer, Foppoli has instead traveled.

Six days ago, his fiancee posted a photograph from Jordan, where they stayed in a luxury hotel with a bubble roof. A post from earlier in September had them in Sicily. In late August, she posted photographs of the couple in Albania, and earlier that month her photographs put them in Cyprus, the Greek island of Santorini and the Israeli port city Haifa.

In between trips, photos show themed parties at the castle, including a Fourth of July celebration. The ancient structure also earned some measure of infamy during the series of Foppoli-related scandals that broke one after another in 2021, when the Chronicle published an investigation into Active 20-30, a prominent charity Foppoli was a part of.

In a 2019 Santa Rosa chapter newsletter, members of the club appeared to be referring to it when they joked about Foppoli’s Italian “rape castle.”

The lawsuit from the seven women also names the charity club as a defendant. Both that suit and the lawsuit from the Montana woman also name Christopher Creek, a winery outside Windsor that Foppoli is part owner of.

By text message Foppoli said he still has supporters in Sonoma County, and he suggested they outnumbered his detractors.

If his recent engagement worried his accusers, it also drew out support, he suggested: “More than 700 people, with the largest part coming from Sonoma County residents have publicly congratulated me on social media platforms on my engagement.”

In a July 31 post, Foppoli posed holding his now fiancee in a low dip in Athens, Greece, with the Parthenon in the background. Those photographs, in particular, bothered one of Foppoli’s former fellow Sonoma County politicians, Healdsburg Mayor Ariel Kelley.

“Looking through the photos of his travels, one that particularly struck me was the disgraced former mayor posing in Athens, which was the birthplace of the democratic courts and judicial system,” Kelley said.

“Let’s be absolutely clear. The only courtroom he should be seeing the inside of is right here in Sonoma County, being brought to much-needed justice.

“The longer this investigation drags on, the longer justice is denied,” Kelley added

You can reach Staff Writer Andrew Graham at 707-526-8667 or andrew.graham@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @AndrewGraham88