Chip Gaines' former real-estate partners sue him for over $1 million
usatoday | April 28, 2017
Chip Gaines, who hosts Fixer Upper along with wife Joanna, is being accused of conspiring to cheat his ex-partners — and now ex-friends — in his Texas real-estate company by buying out their stakes for peanuts two days before announcing the show that would go on to become a lucrative hit for HGTV.