The California sheriff who kept a police officer on duty after he was accused of raping Real Housewife Lynne Curtin's daughter, Alexa Curtin, is now asking for the reality star's award to be reduced.

Court papers obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens is asking to cut the county's legal bill of more than $2.1 million in down to $480,840.

Hutchens claims the attorneys overcharged taxpayers, but Curtin's lawyers have slammed the demands as 'baseless' saying the the motion 'fails to offer any specific argument as to how the County arrived at that number.'

The court filing comes a month after the 24-year-old who appeared in seasons four and five of Real Housewives of Orange County, was awarded $2.25 million in damages - in addition to the legal fees - after she was allegedly raped by sheriff's deputy Nicholas Caropino, 38, in April 2014.

If successful, it would mean Curtin could lose more than two-thirds of her award as she may be on the hook to pay the extra $1.62 million.

Alexa Curtin, 24, was awarded $2.25 million in damages last month in her lawsuit claiming she was raped by an Orange County Sheriff's Deputy in April 2014

Disgraced Sheriff's deputy Nicholas Caropino, 38, allegedly forced Alexa to give him oral sex and raped her for 20 minutes in her car after he responded to a call at her then-boyfriend's home in Dana Point, California

Alexa, daughter of Orange County Housewife Lynne Curtin (center) requested $2.1M in attorney fees to be paid after winning the large settlement

According to her lawsuit, Curtin claimed she was detained by Caropino after she left her then-boyfriend's home in Dana Point, California after an argument.

Caropino searched her Nissan Versa where he found underwear and began to inappropriately question her about it.

He then had to leave to tend to 'another more pressing matter', but told Curtin she wasn't free to leave and ordered her to remain in her vehicle.

Caropino returned 20 minutes later and entered her car and sat in the passenger seat next to her, where he told her: 'Since you are still here, I am going to f**k the s**t out of you,' Curtin claimed.

The deputy then forced her to give him oral sex and raped her for 20 minutes, the lawsuit states.

Caropino was never charged with rape, but a civil court jury ruled in favor of Curtin after deliberating for less than 30 minutes in August. He was eventually fired 16 months after the sexual assault was reported.

Caropino had argued that the sex was consensual, but Curtin, who has appeared in porn films under the name Jayden Taylors, had said she was 'in fear for her safety and knew that many in law enforcement carry guns.'

'When he drove away in his car, he took a piece of me I never got back,' she told the jury, according to the OC Weekly.

In a response filed on September 11, Curtin's attorneys, slammed Hutchens's demands, arguing that the county hired a 'fee auditor' James Schrantz to inspect the billing sheets and rates requested.

'As a "fee auditor," Mr. Schrantz is not qualified as an expert to provide opinions on the reasonableness of attorneys' fees because he fails to provide an objective, unbiased review of plaintiffs' attorney fees request,' court papers state.

Curtin, who has appeared in porn films under the name Jayden Taylors, had said she was 'in fear for her safety and knew that many in law enforcement carry guns.'

Orange County Board of Supervisors also claimed they only fought the case because Curtin's original demand for $40 million was too high.

But her lawyers fired back saying that before the case was heard, they offered to settle for $2.3 million — just $50,000 more than the final award —but the county 'never responded.'

Curtin also claimed Hutchens was aware that Caropino was a dirty cop.

Four months before the incident, another woman had formally accused him of sexually assaulting her twice, both times while on duty.

But under the department's rules he was allowed to stay on the job while a criminal inquiry was going on.

'An officer accused of rape or murder or robbery or sexual assault remains on the job interacting with the public,' Curtin's attorney Daniel Balaban said in court, 'That policy is reckless and dangerous.'

The first woman who accused Caropino of sexual assault had been stopped under suspicion of DUI.

The officer reportedly turned off his body microphone and the audio and video recorders in his patrol car while he took the woman to the Orange County Jail.

But a camera on the jail roof recorded him keeping the woman inside his vehicle for 40 minutes —time when he should have been hurrying to make sure a blood test accurately determined the amount of alcohol in her system.

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The woman claimed he had ordered her to stroke his erect penis through his pants.

She also claimed that after she was released, Caropino went to her home and demanded sex. The video camera in his car proved he had stayed in the house for more than an hour.

Balaban told the jury of four men and four women that no one would expect a ship's captain or airline pilot to be left on the job after being caught intoxicated at work.

'Does it make any sense under the sun that we're going to leave a deputy accused of these things on duty with the risk he could do it again?'

U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson told jurors there was no doubt that the rape had occurred and their job was to determine whether the sheriff's policy of keeping accused officers on duty had contributed to it.

Now the court battle will consider whether Balaban and his team of lawyers overcharged for attorney fees. They say their success in court proves all the hours they put in were needed.

Neither Curtin's lawyer nor Orange County officials immediately returned DailyMail.com's calls for comment.