Wall Street money manager is suing his ex wife for $7 million after he said she sent messages to his work email claiming he hired a 'hooker' and had a 'huge pile of STD bills'

• A Wall Street money manager said his wife accused him of having STDs in a lawsuit.
• Jean-Charles Beriau, 47, said his wife's emails prompted a human-resources investigation at his job.

A Wall Street money manager said he left his job at Merrill Lynch after his wife sent him emails at work claiming that he had sexually transmitted diseases, according to a report.

Jean-Charles Beriau, 47, filed a $7 million lawsuit against Thea D. Shive, 65, who he has been going through a divorce with since 2020, according to The New York Post. Beriau's attorney, Karen McGuire, did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Sunday.

The lawsuit said Shive sent emails to Beriau at his offices at Merrill Lynch, and later at Morgan Stanley, to email addresses his superiors monitored, prompting a human-resources investigation at Morgan Stanley, according to The Post.

The lawsuit says Shive wrote that she'd "show the huge pile of STD bills you have accumulated during COVID to everyone," in a January 2022 email, The Post reported. "You should use a condom for your own sake. You might want to find a cleaner hooker, as well."

In another email, the complaint says Shive wrote that Beriau had "herpes, syphilis, trichomoniasis and various other problems … There is no greater proof of your severe mental illness than the fact you continue to use my address when you get treatment for STDs," The Post reported.

McGuire told The Post that Beriau "wanted to respectfully separate from his wife" and that the contents of Shive's emails are not true.

"The contents of the emails were entirely fabricated and false," McGuire told the outlet. "Those emails to him were out of left field. And he's a very patient, very professional gentleman that thought that this would de-escalate, but it didn't."