Beloved Los Angeles newscaster Wendy Burch is fighting back against a woman she alleges spent eight years trying to extort her and ruin her reputation over a purported $150,000 drug deal, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Burch, a longtime presence on KTLA’s morning newscast, claims Christine Weber carried out a yearslong smear campaign targeting both her and the father of her son, Bruce Taylor. The allegations were detailed in court documents filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Weber first sued Burch and Taylor in 2018, alleging they had defrauded her of $150,000. The lawsuit triggered years of legal disputes, according to court records reviewed by The Post.
Burch, however, says the money was connected to an illegal marijuana transaction Weber allegedly arranged with Taylor after meeting him at a Santa Monica bar in 2015.
According to Burch’s lawsuit, Weber withdrew $150,000 in cash for the transaction because she was dealing with problems involving the IRS.
The alleged drug deal was organized at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas, with plans to move the marijuana across state lines, the lawsuit claims.
Messages included in the court filing show Weber and Taylor communicating in the days leading up to the alleged transaction.
“Good morning, Handsome. Mission accomplished-I will have the package for sure by Friday early afternoon the latest. Book our suite, Baby! Game on, and we are ready to play,” Weber wrote, adding a lip emoji, according to the court papers.
Other messages cited in the lawsuit suggest the alleged marijuana deal quickly unraveled.
“Last night was a nightmare of epic proportions will call later with lawyer now,” Taylor wrote.
“OK Babe thanks for getting in touch with me! I knew something had to have happened and I was very worried about you,” Weber allegedly replied.
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In another message, Weber allegedly wrote: “Did you ever get your garment bag back from the Feds yet with my money it in? Yes, if you did we can roll around in it together.”
Burch maintains that she knew nothing about the Las Vegas trip and had no relationship with Taylor beyond co-parenting their son.
After the money disappeared, Weber allegedly turned her attention to Burch, launching a social media smear campaign and contacting KTLA executives in an effort to have the broadcaster fired.
“You are giving Wendy Burch a platform to continue her crimes against women along with her accomplice Bruce Taylor,” Weber wrote in an email to KTLA’s story tip account, according to an exhibit attached to the lawsuit.
Weber also allegedly sent threatening messages directly to Burch.
“I WILL PUT YOU AND HIM ON EVERY CHANNEL NEWS TO EXPOSE YOU AND THAT CON MAN WHO STOLE MY MONEY AND I WILL HAVE YOU INVESTIGATED BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL THE STOLEN MONEY !! YOU B*****,” she allegedly wrote in a Facebook Messenger message.
“Weber decided to subject Ms. Burch to the litigation because she felt that by damaging the mother of Mr. Taylor’s child, she would damage Mr. Taylor,” the lawsuit states.
Following years of litigation and five appeals by Weber, the case against Burch was dismissed in December 2025, bringing what the court papers described as her “litigation nightmare” to an end.
The court also ruled in Taylor’s favor, finding that “the evidence established that Weber knowingly entered into an illegal drug deal with Mr. Taylor, tainting the entire case,” according to the filing.
Burch is suing both Weber and her attorney, Howard Fisher, and the law firm of Fisher and Fisher, citing malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and emotional distress.
The TV newswoman says she suffered “anxiety, depression, mental anguish, sleeplessness, anger, stress, and feelings of hopelessness” as a result of the years of litigation, according to the lawsuit.
Weber, Fisher, and Fisher and Fisher were all contacted for comment.
