PHOENIX – A man who befriended a topless dancer and offered to help her through tough times has sued the woman in Maricopa County Court, claiming she strung him along with lies and took $175,310 from him, married another guy without telling him, and continued to take his money under false pretenses.

Zachary Hull claims Kimberly Chi Jennings said she was a poor student at Arizona State, and he offered to help her out so she could stop working as a stripper. She accepted, he says, and over the next three years took money from him for breast cancer she did not have, plastic surgery she did not receive, dental work she did not have done, moving expenses she had not incurred, work-related travel expenses to Japan for a trip she never took, for fictional sick relatives, for doctor bills, for mortgage payments to “save” her parents’ house, and so on.

He wants his money back from Jennings and her husband.