Nerputh was embroiled in several harassment and protection orders over the past two years.
In March last year the Pietermaritzburg magistrate's court granted a protection order against her former friend, Yugeshnie Reddy.
The court found that Reddy had harassed Nerputh on social media after their friendship had soured. Fake Facebook profiles were created to slander Nerputh by calling her a sex trader and prostitute.
News of Nerputh's murder sent shock waves through Pietermaritzburg, where she was a well-known businesswoman.
Nerputh owned a company which sold a weight-loss product called Forever Well Tea. Nerputh became a social media hit in 2017 when she threw her then four-year-old daughter a R100,000, carnival-theme birthday party.
On her Facebook page, she frequently posted photos of her three children and called them "her life".