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Todd Chrisley might be out of federal prison, but his legal problems aren’t fully behind him. 

In 2024, the former Chrisley Knows Best star was ordered to pay $755,000 in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by an employee of the Georgia Department of Revenue. Now, the woman, Amy Doherty-Heinze, is coming after Chrisley for the money she says she she is still owed. She recently filed documents in Tennessee, where she believes Chrisley currently lives, in an attempt to collect, TMZ reports. 

The judgment stems from comments Chrisley made in 2020 during the run-up to his and his wife Julie Chrisley’s trial on tax evasion charges. The reality TV personality accused Doherty-Heinze of “a multitude of crimes and wrongdoing,” she said in her lawsuit, according to the Los Angeles Times. Chrisley allegedly “repeated false accusations that, among other things, [Doherty-Heinze] engaged in various criminal misconduct in her post as an investigator for the Georgia Department of Revenue’s Office of Special Investigations.” In reality, Doherty-Heinze did not play a significant role in investigating the Chrisleys.

Chrisley made the defamatory comments on his podcast, Chrisley Confessions, as well as on Instagram. Among other things, he accused Doherty-Heinze of using taxpayer money for a trip to Disney World and claimed she got her job through “nefarious” means, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 

Chrisley has not commented on the case. Last year, after receiving a pardon from Donald Trump, he and his family returned to TV in the Lifetime series The Chrisleys: Back to Reality. 

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