Janet Lee

In December 2018, Lee filed a lawsuit against Bob Nygaard, a private investigator who specializes in psychic fraud. In the lawsuit, she alleges that Nygaard had slandered and defamed her by contacting her past clients, who had been wronged by her, and convincing them to file criminal charges. She also claims that Nygaard's investigation and the criminal charges filed against her have cost her a contract for a reality series called The True Greenwich Psychic. She is seeking $44 million in damages.

Lee was arrested in June 2017 while trying to rent a luxury apartment using someone else's identity along with forged documents. She asked to inspect an apartment in SoHo, New York and upon inspection agreed to lease the space. She presented all of her identity theft victims personal information including their social security number along with a forged driver's license and was told to come back the next day to sign the lease. She returned the next day and forged her identity theft victim's signature over 60 times on the lease documents.

Upon arrest Lee was charged with identity theft in the first degree, forgery in the second degree and criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, all felonies. At her hearing in November 2017 she took a plea deal and was convicted of forgery in the second degree. She received 3 years probation and was forbidden to leave the state of New York during that time. In an interview in December 2018 she said that this was the first time she'd done anything wrong.

In a lawsuit filed in Stamford in 2015 it was alleged that Lee convinced a woman to withdraw her life savings in order to give the money to Lee for safe keeping. She had convinced the woman that there were "dark forces" surrounding the money and that she would put the money safely in a box in St. Patrick's Cathedral to be cleansed for 6 months. Lee refused to give the money back after the agreed upon 6 month time frame which led to the lawsuit. The presiding judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff, ordering Lee to give the woman her $30,000 back. In an interview in December 2018 Lee said she still plans to give the money back to the woman.

On July 11, 2009 Lee called the police from Greenwich Hospital claiming to have been beaten by a man outside her business on Greenwich Avenue. She initially claimed that a rival psychic was trying to threaten her but the police became suspicious when a number of holes appeared in her claims. When the police checked her phone records they found that she was nowhere near her business address at the alleged time of the attack. Additionally, according to details in her arrest warrant, she had initially told her father at the hospital that her husband had beaten her. When the police asked her if the attack happened somewhere else and was committed by her husband, Lee responded by saying "All I can say is, I can't say it didn't happen in Greenwich". She was charged with giving a false statement to police but the charges were later dropped when she completed an accelerated rehabilitation program.

Janet Lee, also known as the Greenwich psychic and the Bedford psychic, is a self-proclaimed psychic based in Bedford Hills, New York. She has been working as a psychic since the late 1990s and claims to have been born with the gift. Her specialities include psychic readings, tarot card readings and past life readings.