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Real Housewives alum Jill Zarin is counter-suing pickleball partner Noah Springer, who sued her last month in their Pickle Pro Labs paddle-testing dispute.
Jill Zarin is no longer just defending. The Real Housewives of New York alum filed her own lawsuit Thursday against Noah Springer, the investor she says owns 25 percent of her pickleball paddle-testing company Pickle Pro Labs, escalating a dispute that began with his suit against her in April.
TMZ broke the countersuit. The outlet’s walkthrough of Zarin’s filing and her allegation that Springer leaked confidential testing-process details reports that Zarin claims Springer told a sponsored professional pickleball player their paddle would be tested and certified “in a couple days,” a window she alleges falls well below the company’s own standards.
The leak is the central allegation. Zarin’s complaint says Pickle Pro Labs’ commercial value rests on its reputation for “independence, impartiality, confidentiality, and procedural integrity,” all of which she alleges Springer threatened.
She is also framing the leak as a pattern. The filing claims Springer has shared non-public, commercially sensitive Pickle Pro information with pro players, paddle manufacturers, and others outside the company’s normal business channels.
Zarin is seeking damages and a court order blocking Springer from disclosing additional sensitive information. Pickle Pro Labs holds testing-and-certification deals with professional pickleball leagues in the United States and abroad.
The countersuit lands roughly six weeks after Springer’s. TMZ’s earlier reporting on Springer’s original suit and his claim that he was iced out of Pickle Pro’s earnings notes that the investor alleges he put $500,000 into the company in 2022 in exchange for a 25 percent stake and a $5,000 monthly salary that stopped flowing around May 2024.
Springer’s original suit named Zarin, her boyfriend Gary Brody, and a separately incorporated entity called GNG Enterprises. He alleges Zarin and Brody founded GNG without his knowledge and used it to sell Pickle Pro’s flagship product, the Go-No-Go paddle-testing machine.
The Cut detailed the alleged personal-expense angle. The magazine’s summary of Springer’s claims, including the corporate email allegations and Zarin’s defiant Page Six response reports that Springer also claims Zarin and Brody used company funds for personal expenses like Brody’s health insurance and either deleted or blocked his corporate email to obscure the GNG project.
Zarin’s public posture has not softened. Asked by Page Six about the original suit, she said: “The beauty in America is you can sue anyone for anything,” and added that she has “a proven track record of winning all my lawsuits.”
The Go-No-Go is no small product. Reality Tea’s reality-side breakdown of the original lawsuit and the Go-No-Go’s industry positioning notes that GNG-branded Go-No-Go units have already been named the official paddle deflection testing device across several major pickleball organizations.
The original product, per Springer, was Pickle Pro’s. He alleges it was “conceived, engineered, researched, funded, and developed” inside the LLC before being moved outside it.
The case sits in Palm Beach. Both sides are now sending their respective injunction asks to the same court.
Zarin’s larger 2026 has been busy. She was recently dismissed from a Real Housewives of New York reboot after a racially-charged rant about Bad Bunny‘s Super Bowl halftime show, an episode that overlaps the Pickle Pro dispute by only a few months.
The pickleball case adds a second front. Whatever happens to the paddle business, the legal calendar is increasingly the busiest one on Zarin’s schedule.
