‘Yellowstone’ actress charged with felony fraud after gathering almost $97,000 in incapacity funds

An actress from the hit TV present “Yellowstone” has been charged with two felonies after allegedly gathering almost $97,000 by way of a staff’ compensation fraud even thought she was nonetheless capable of work.

Q’orianka Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood, has been charged with two felony counts of staff’ compensation insurance coverage fraud after she obtained $96,838 in short-term incapacity advantages between 2019 and 2021, the California Division of Insurance coverage mentioned.

Based on the insurance coverage division, Kilcher collected the funds for a number of months whereas she was engaged on the set of “Yellowstone.” Kilcher performed Angela Blue Thunder for 4 episodes that aired in 2020.

FILE – Q’orianka Kilcher arrives on the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 17, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

The Paramount Community sequence “Yellowstone” stars Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes and Wes Bentley. It has 4 seasons. 

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Kilcher initially began gathering incapacity insurance coverage after she injured her neck and proper shoulder when she was using in a manufacturing automobile on the set of “Dora” in October 2018, the insurance coverage firm mentioned.

She additionally denied work the next 12 months citing extreme neck ache, ensuing from the harm, the corporate added.

A billboard promotes Paramount Community’s ‘Yellowstone’ tv sequence on June 22, 2022 in Hollywood, California.  (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photographs)

In its assertion, the corporate mentioned Kilcher returned to work after which resumed her incapacity funds.

“Based on data, she returned to the physician and began receiving incapacity advantages 5 days after final engaged on the present,” the corporate mentioned.

Kilcher surrendered to authorities in Could.

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Michael Becker, who represents Kilcher, maintains his shopper’s innocence and that she ever obtained advantages to which she was not entitled.

Steven Williams, Keith Cox, Wes Bentley, Kelly Reilly, Gil Birmingham, Kevin Costner, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Chow, Luke Grimes, Kent Alterman and Sarah Levy attend Paramount Community’s “Yellowstone” Season 2 Premiere Get together at Lombardi Home on Could 30, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Photographs for Paramount Community)

“Third-party medical doctors verified her harm and entitlement to advantages,” Becker mentioned. “Ms. Kilcher was always candid along with her medical doctors and therapy suppliers… and she or he by no means deliberately accepted advantages that she didn’t imagine she was entitled to.”

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The actress will “vigorously defend herself and asks that she be afforded the presumption of innocence each in and outdoors the courthouse,” he added.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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