Chimene Van Gundy carefully crafted a public persona as a successful buyer and seller of mobile homes before a judge appointed a receiver to take control of her New Braunfels company and she filed for personal bankruptcy last month.
But during a bankruptcy proceeding Thursday, she couldn’t recall any particular deal she did to get people to invest with her or that led to her becoming known as “the Mobile Home Millionaire.” She’s also called herself the “Queen of Mobile Homes.”
“I don’t remember any specifics right now,” she told San Antonio attorney Leslie Luttrell, who represents multiple creditors in the bankruptcy. “I just know that I would find mobile homes and fix and flip them.”
That was one of about 100 times Van Gundy, 45, told the attorney and others she didn’t remember, recall or know the answer to a question during her first meeting with creditors.
During the hour-and-45-minute proceeding in her Chapter 7 case, Van Gundy said she sustained a brain injury late last year after falling and hitting her head on a concrete table at her home. She didn’t know what caused the fall, but said it’s the reason for her memory problems.
The meeting, which was conducted by telephone, was cut short after Van Gundy’s lawyer said…
