The Real Housewives of New Jersey is returning for its sixth season—with three brand new cast members and a first-season vet (not Danielle Staub, unfortch)—and much of it will revolve around Teresa and Joe Giudice's 41-count federal fraud indictment.
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe both pled guilty to fraud charges and other charges at Newark Federal Court on Tuesday after striking a plea deal with prosecutors. Teresa is facing 21 to 27 months in prison.
In case you missed it because you had something better to do (like putting your hand in a wood chipper or douching your vagina with rubbing alcohol), RHNJ's Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe (a caveman who she met after unthawing him from a block of ice that she found buried in her backyard) went on Watch What…
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You might be surprised to learn that Anna Wintour is not a twerking enthusiast. She's cut Miley Cyrus off the cover of the December issue of Vogue, despite a completed photoshoot with Cyrus, because diddling yourself with a foam finger is apparently off-brand.
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Three days after Lady Gaga let it slip why she and Perez Hilton went from your garden variety co-dependent girl/gay guy friendship to Mortal Enemies, she's accused him of stalking her and her family outside their New York apartment via since-deleted tweets:
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At this point, we're used to seeing various Real Housewives in financial peril, but the 39-count indictment of federal fraud and tax charges that Teresa and Joe Giudice are facing is some next-level courtroom drama shit. According to legal experts, they will both serve time in a federal prison.
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Smarm machine Simon Cowell is allegedly having his first kid with his close friend Andrew Silverman's wife Lauren Silverman, a Jennifer-Garner-looking New York socialite who is reportedly about 10 weeks along.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey's Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe were indicted on fraud and tax charges today by a federal grand jury. There are 39-counts against them, which include "conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud."
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The Ryan Lochte/Prince Harry Vegas bacchanal news continues, now with additional cavorting! Undoubtedly under the spell of jeah, England's prodigal son Harry played a game of strip pool in Las Vegas that ended with him butt-naked, freaking with the girl next door (see above), and Wales lawyers were undoubtedly like,…
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Sometimes "news" really just means "a conflagration of bizarre, seemingly-unrelated events that would seem more appropriate in a P.T. Anderson movie than they do in actual life," and this is one of those times. A woman went into the late stages of labor on a park bench in New York, and the paramedics were already on…
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On last night's episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey, we got the most unguarded and intimate look at the Giudices to date, which was kind of bad news for the family. Joe got brain-face wasted while his wife was out earning money, and ended up doing something stupid that caused him to chip his tooth on Teresa's…
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On last night's episode, the Giudices met with their lawyer to go over what Teresa is allowed to publicly say about the couple's many lawsuits and alleged bankruptcy fraud. Although, considering that she thinks that nor'easters are called Norwegians, the meeting could prove pointless when she actually does open her…
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It would've been impossible to film this season of New Jersey Housewives without, at the very least, touching upon the Giudices varied legal and financial issues, if not making them a key plot point. On last night's episode, Teresa addressed their money problems during a picnic dinner on her living room floor,…
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Danielle Staub who? Seriously, that lady will not be missed (although, you can still see plenty of her at Scores, where she's now a stripper). Including Teresa's brother Joey, his wife Melissa, and their first cousin Kathy was the best casting decision Bravo could have possibly made. (Not to mention Kathy's husband…
This week in reality-TV-star downward spirals features the arrests of Jenelle Evans from Teen Mom 2 and Real Housewives of New Jersey's Joe Giudice, as well as an internal affairs investigation of Steven Seagal in Jefferson Parrish where he shot A&E's Steven Seagal: Lawman.
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When asked about the possibility of adding more cities to the successful Real Housewives franchise, Bravo's Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development Andy Cohen told OK!, "I really feel like we're done," adding that Miami was most likely the last stop on the Housewives train, which is sure to…
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Within the first 10 minutes of last night's reunion, Teresa flew off the couch in a rage, screaming in Danielle's face over the mysterious mention of a "nephew." Was Danielle implying that Juicy Joe has a love child?
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night's episode covered Teresa's husband's DWI arrest after he totaled at 2 am on January 14. While Juicy Joe gave his version of the events—that he drank after he crashed into four trees—court records reveal much more.
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The Real Housewives franchise purports to feature well-off women. But according to our research, their appearances of wealth can be quite deceiving. And their money problems extend even further than you might think.
