The foul-mouthed teenage girl whose appearance on the Dr. Phil show launched a crude persona might have inspired the internet’s new favorite meme. But in truth, she’s just a Boynton Beach kid who is the product of a dramatically severed relationship, according to more than a decade’s worth of court documents.

That’s 13-year-old Danielle Bregoli on Facebook and Instagram, flashing gold teeth, stacks of dollar bills and her now-viral taunt: “Cash me outside, howbow dah?” It’s the phrase she hurled at the audience when she appeared on Dr. Phil McGraw’s advice show in September 2016. That video had been viewed more than 25 million times.

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The teen, who along with her mother was removed from an outgoing Spirit Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport Monday night for reportedly punching another passenger, is scheduled to make a second appearance on the show Friday.

Look more closely at the girl’s many YouTube, Instagram and Facebook Live video appearances and you might catch a glimpse of Mom, Barbara Ann Bregoli. She’s the mom calling her daughter “bitch” on a video clip aired on Dr. Phil. And during that airline incident, she’s the screaming woman in the platinum bob who lunges at the passenger, according to a TMZ video.

What is not apparent on the viral images is mom’s legal campaign against Danielle’s biological father, with whom she had a stormy, live-in romance more than 13 years ago. The father, Ira Peskowitz, is a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy who lives with his wife of nearly 13 years and their two children.

Deputy Ira Peskowitz of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office helps students during a tennis lesson in 2011. Peskowitz helped found a police tennis association for local children. He is the father of Danielle Bregoli, the 13-year-old girl who gained viral internet status after her 2016 appearance on the Dr. Phil show. (Palm Beach Post file photo)

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Peskowitz, 49, says he is “appalled” by the videos and their reach.

“That behavior is appalling. And it’s appalling that anyone can think it is acceptable behavior,” Peskowitz told The Palm Beach Post Wednesday. “And Dr. Phil? Shame on him.”

The Dr. Phil narrative showcases an exasperated single mother who has twice battled cancer and now battles an out-of-control teenage daughter. In the 2016 episode, titled “I Want to Give Up My Car-Stealing, Knife-Wielding, Twerking 13-year-old Daughter Who Tried to Frame Me for a Crime,” the 49-year-old Bregoli called her daughter “the Antichrist.”

This is the same parent who was featured in a 2009 Mother’s Day story in The Post, detailing her strong bond with her young daughter, who helped nurse her mother back to health. The accompanying photos capture a sweet-faced child posing affectionately with her mother. The mother spoke briefly by phone and in person with The Post, but has not returned calls seeking a full interview. When reporters knocked on her door earlier this month, she said she was in the midst of a daylong shoot with a Dr. Phil crew.

The way they were: a 2009 image of Danielle Bregoli and her mother, Barbara Bregoli. The girl, who would go on to become an internet sensation, was 6 years old at the time. (Palm Beach Post file photo)

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This past summer on Dr. Phil, Bregoli recounted how her daughter steals cars, steals her credit cards, sneaks out of the house at night, displays overly provocative behavior and even staged a fake drug scene before telling police a baggie of confectioner’s sugar was her mother’s heroin.

“I don’t think this is an evil girl here. I don’t think she is the Antichrist at all,” the show host said. “I think she’s kind of taken on this persona.”

In one scene, Bregoli dabs her eyes as Dr. Phil asks her daughter about her father. The emotional exchange appears to cast the teen as the victim of an absent father who moved on long ago to another life with another family.

But court records – and the girl’s father – tell a more complex story.

“I did not abandon my daughter,” Peskowitz said.

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Court documents depict a protracted battle about details having little to do with child custody. The matter of custody, in fact, was settled when Danielle was an infant and cemented in Palm Beach County circuit court in 2004, when she was 18 months old. Designated as “primary residential parent,” her mother would have “sole parental decision-making responsibility” in the girl’s life. Her father would have “open and liberal” visitation rights.

The court, which noted the toddler had been afforded little if any contact with her father, directed the parents to attend mediation if they could not agree on a visitation schedule. Complicating visitation was the fact that the mother had moved to New York. In court documents, the father alleged she was “elusive” and made visitation impossible.

Four years later, the father petitioned the court to find Bregoli in contempt for not allowing him contact with their daughter. The magistrate declared that theirs was a “textbook case for supervised visitation” and asked the parties to try the “Family Connection” program for two hours every Saturday for six months. Even then, the visitation never happened, according to court documents and the girl’s father.

The matter of child support seemed relatively straightforward: Peskowitz would pay $1,000 a month, an amount that would grow when the girl entered daycare and would be adjusted by the court as it deemed necessary. He says he continues to pay child support for Danielle — $1,100 a month — to this day.

But the tentacles of the case proved tumultuous. While both sides made claims of harassment, it was Bregoli’s copious letters to Palm Beach County judges, magistrates and PBSO officials that kept alive the breakup-related drama. Rambling letters to the court include intricate details about Peskowitz’s change of addresses, his work schedule, his family and his dogs.

In a five-page letter to a Palm Beach County magistrate on May 12, 2008, nearly five years after her breakup with Peskowitz, Bregoli recounted events from four years earlier, how she telephoned Peskowitz’s wife’s workplace to query the human resources director about her insurance coverage. The same letter alleged her ex-boyfriend “was trying to hide himself” by not updating an address change with the court. She claimed Peskowitz never referred to his daughter by her name in court, but spoke of his younger sons by name.

In other letters to PBSO officials, she repeatedly requested Peskowitz’s personnel file, his payment stubs and schedule, often weaving in extraneous personal details about her ex.

She also wrote to judges – even those not overseeing her case – complaining of bias. In one instance, on Aug. 31, 2004, she wrote, “I feel I did not receive a fair hearing.” She attached a four-page, 29-point affidavit, rebutting Peskowitz’s statements from a year earlier.

These and other, salacious allegations about her relationship with Peskowitz are now tucked into the reams of documents in the cases sparked by Danielle’s birth. Also there is this prophetic line, written by the girl’s mother in one letter to the court:

“The saddest part is the one person who is going to suffer and be damaged from all of this is an innocent child who did nothing.”

A screen shot from The Dr. Phil Show episode which featured the “Cash Me Ousside” viral sensation teen, Danielle Bregoli, 13, of Boynton Beach.

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That was nearly nine years go. Today, Danielle Bregoli — she now goes by her mother’s surname — is the suddenly famous teenager who populates the Internet and social media outlets with scandalous videos. She’s the girl who gave the meme world a catchphrase that has been picked up by everyone from the Kardashians to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who posted a photo of himself hoisting Sunday’s Super Bowl trophy on Instagram with the caption, “Catch me at the parade. How Bout Dat.”

Danielle, who does not attend school, according to her father, is now peddling “Cash Me Ousside” (her spelling) merchandise and juggling social media accounts. She has 3.4 million followers on her verified Instagram page and more than 905,000 on her public Facebook page. All this before her 14th birthday next month.

The fame, or infamy, has spawned Internet hoaxes, including one recent rumor that the girl had committed suicide.

When asked about this by phone recently, Danielle’s mother countered that the rumor was false. Her daughter “is a fighter,” she said.

YouTube and Instagram videos show the mother is a fighter as well. One video posted this month shows both mother and daughter riling each other up, screaming at a young viewer. Barbara Bregoli shouts in the background, “You [expletive] Muslim!”

The video depicts a chaotic scene. Then again, chaos has marked the girl’s life from infancy.

Court documents chronicle the early months of Danielle Marie Peskowitz, born to unmarried parents who lived together in a middle-class household. But this was not to be a peaceful home for the infant. Four months after Danielle’s birth, according to the court documents, her mother sent a hostile email to Peskowitz’s future wife, reading: “I hope you had a nice July 4th weekend with my boyfriend, while I was taking care of our four month old daughter. You can have him, you (expletive) because after I’m done with him, he will have nothing, bitch.”

After a blowout fight the following month at their Lake Park home, Peskowitz filed a petition for an injunction against Bregoli for domestic violence. He accused her of making threats “that she will stab and kill” him, that she hit him in the back with a closed fist and struck him with a plastic hanger.

The violence occurred in front of 4-month-old Danielle, wrote the father, who added: “I need her (Bregoli) not to make contact with me. I want her to have the child until I can have a family judge give joint custody. I will continue to pay all the bills in the home and make sure my daughter will have all baby supplies and food… I am in fear of severe bodily injury and verbal mental abuse.” A judge issued a temporary injunction for protection against domestic violence with minor children.

The following day, Bregoli filed a petition of her own for protection, alleging her boyfriend “grabbed me with force as I held my four-month-old daughter and threatened to kill my daughter and myself as well as himself.” Peskowitz denies the allegation.

Two months later, a court dismissed the temporary injunction without prejudice, instructing both parties not to contact one another, allowing only email contact in the case of an emergency pertaining to the child.

In the years that followed, Peskowitz attempted to establish contact with his daughter. On Feb. 1, 2007, he emailed Bregoli, saying “I want to set up visitation at the courthouse in Delray near your new house in Boynton Beach. If I have to, my attorney is going to prepare documents that you are in contempt of court and file for full custody due to your false allegation, mental state, arrest warrants and lying on sworn documents in New York and Florida. Please comply so we do not have to have more unfortunate court hearings. Ira.”

Today, the father says the prolonged court battle has taken its toll. But he says he will not give up on his daughter.

“She is still young. Danielle needs to be allowed to be a normal, healthy 13-year-old girl. Danielle needs to get treatment, needs to get a good education, get involved in physical activity,” Peskowitz said.

He says he does keep in touch with his daughter, mostly by phone. But he admits it’s still a rocky relationship.

“Danielle feels rejected by me. That poor girl. I did not abandon her. I left her mother, but I did not abandon her,” says Peskowitz. “I know there is a little girl in there and I hope one day she can hug me and say, ‘I love you, daddy.’”

Staff researcher Melanie Mena contributed to this story.

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