Telecom company exec resigns after women file sex-assault suits

Fleming has his own lawsuit pending against a former girlfriend, alleging she took advantage of his “severe mental, emotional and physical illnesses.”

Allegations in civil lawsuits of human trafficking and sexual assault have prompted Terry Fleming, founder of PerfectVision Manufacturing in Little Rock, to resign from a company he started in 1979 as a supplier of backyard satellite television systems.

The company announced Fleming’s departure in a news release this week.

In separate lawsuits, three women claim Fleming is a billionaire who used “deception, fraud, coercion, drugs, alcohol and many other tactics” in his relationships with them.

The lawsuits were filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court between Dec. 24 and Monday, with unspecified damages being sought.

In stating they weren’t prostitutes and that Fleming didn’t view them as such, the three say Fleming typically paid them $500 in cash each time they had sex with him, such as at his estate near Pinnacle Mountain, a vacation home near Mount Ida, on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, or on trips by private jet to Florida and the Bahamas.

The relationships, according to the lawsuits, began as early as 2011 and continued as recently as 2019.

Fleming has his own lawsuit pending against a former girlfriend, alleging she took advantage of his “severe mental, emotional and physical illnesses.”

The Ludwig Law Firm in Little Rock filed the lawsuits on behalf of Brittany Risser, 27, of North Little Rock; Corissa Withrow, 24, of Fayetteville, and Rabekah Fendley, 27, of Conway.

Fleming’s Nov. 17 lawsuit against the former girlfriend, Kaylee Cathcart, was followed just five hours later by her own counterclaim.

Cathcart, who is identified only as being from Pulaski County, is being represented by the Sutter and Gillham firm in Benton.

Fleming also sued another former girlfriend in 2019 for the return of a Range Rover. That lawsuit was dismissed last year, apparently after the vehicle was returned.

The lawsuits against Fleming set his age at 79; the lawsuit he filed against Cathcart says he is 71.

Also named as defendants in two of the three lawsuits are PerfectVision and related entities, and some members of Fleming’s immediate family.

Fleming’s company manufactures, sells and distributes telecommunications products.

PerfectVision said “none of the accusations being made are alleged to have occurred in the workplace, or to be associated with the operations of PerfectVision.”