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\n\tCountry icon George Jones<\/a>\u2019 widow Nancy Jones was countersued in her bid to recover millions of dollars worth of alleged stolen cryptocurrency<\/a> from her ex-boyfriend, who now claims that he is entitled to a share of the fortune and accuses the 78-year-old of fraud and defaming him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tKirk West was arrested at Nashville International Airport last July, with police intercepting the 58-year-old before he boarded a flight bound for the Philippines with his new girlfriend. A day earlier, Nancy claimed she had discovered $400,000 in cash and a ledger containing $11.6 million in cryptocurrency missing from her safe, filing a civil complaint and a police report against her partner of more than a decade, accusing him of theft.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBut in court documents filed in Williamson County, Tennessee on Friday, West denied he had \u201cstolen\u201d any of \u201cher cryptocurrency\u201d during the breakdown of their relationship. Instead, West claims he \u201cmade numerous wise investments over the course of the parties\u2019 relationship which built substantial wealth for them.\u201d Therefore, West alleges, he is entitled to a portion of the couple\u2019s significant assets, which includes up to $5 million in gold and silver, and $1 million in cash. (Attorneys for Nancy and West both declined to comment on the pending litigation.)\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn denying a bulk of Nancy\u2019s claims against him, West accuses Nancy of abusing the judicial process, unjust enrichment, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, and defamation for \u201cpubliciz[ing] the accusations and [his] arrest.\u201d Describing the accusations as false, West alleges he\u2019s been \u201cexposed to wrath, public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or deprived him of the benefits of public confidence or social interaction.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWest is currently seeking half of\u00a0\u201call cryptocurrency, cash, and precious metals possessed by the parties at the time he vacated\u201d their shared $5.9 million mansion.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, Nancy claimed she had been duped and seduced by the smooth-talking West, whom she met in summer of 2013, shortly after Jones\u2019 death at 81<\/a> in April 2013. West had toured Jones\u2019 80-acre estate Country Gold, which Nancy was putting up for sale, and the two struck up a friendship that quickly turned romantic.<\/p>\n