Kim Kardashian’s former IVF clinic has been sued for dumping embryos
Marissa Calhoun and Stephen Castaneda say the Reproductive Partners Medical Group “intentionally” destroyed all their embryos last October, during what the clinic later admitted was a disastrous clerical error, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
The heartbreaking accident happened just days after the doctor preferred by celebrities Dr. Andy Huang – who worked with both Kim Kardashian and sister Khloeand appeared on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” — advised the couple to fertilize Calhoun’s stored embryos with her partner’s sperm.
Huang confirmed that Calhoun and Castaneda’s eggs were successfully fertilized last October and would be stored in an incubator, only to find out days later that the clinic had removed the viable embryos to be, per TMZ.
Calhoun and Castaneda criticize not only the clinic’s policies, but its procedures and training for employees after they say RPMG was initially tight-lipped about oversight.
RPMG eventually confessed to its shocked patients that an employee failed to label their embryos and, seeing them in the incubator, “intentionally threw them away.”
“What makes this case so outrageous is that RPMG not only failed to label Marissa and Stephen’s embryos, but then threw away those unlabeled embryos without any thought or concern,” Adam Wolf, partner at the law firm Peiffer Wolf.
Although the clinic released records with the couple to further shed light on the situation — which Wolf notes is “necessary” — they allegedly “provided incomplete records on three separate occasions.”
“RPMG flashed Marissa and Stephen,” Wolf said. “This is no way to treat any patient, let alone people who trust you to start their family.”
RPMG, which operates from several locations in Southern California, as well as a clinic in Beijing, describes itself as a “national leader in infertility treatment.”
