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Lotsofkids
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08-11-2007
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:52 am
MORE HOUSEWIFE DRAMA: Kelly Bensimon Calls Assault Charge 'Unsettling' after Court By Brian Orloff Originally posted Tuesday March 31, 2009 01:55 PM EDT Nick Stefanov (left) and Kelly Bensimon Photo by: Jason Augustine / PatrickMcMullan / Sipa Even though the cameras weren't rolling on her reality show, Kelly Bensimon was the star of a personal drama on Tuesday. The Real Housewives of New York player reported to a Big Apple courthouse to face a misdemeanor assault charge after she allegedly attacked her boyfriend, Nick Stefanov. "I'm really upset by the entire process," Bensimon, 40, told Extra after the hearing. "My beautiful girls and I are being exposed to a horrible situation. I just think it just unsettling." "It's about my girls," she said. "My girls don't need to be exposed to something like this. It's really inappropriate." Bensimon, who was arrested on March 5 for punching Stefanov in the face, entered a not guilty plea at the time. According to police reports, the former model gave her boyfriend a black eye and a gash on his left cheek. He fled the apartment after the altercation. At the time, a friend told PEOPLE that Bensimon was "upset and embarrassed" by the situation. On Tuesday, her lawyer Ed Hayes echoed similar sentiments to Extra, saying that Stefanov, who did not appear in court, "just wants to make her life uncomfortable." When asked by Extra if he thinks the situation could be described as a lovers' quarrel, Hayes said: "I don't even know if I qualify him as lover. How about a jilted moron?"
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Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:53 am
"I don't even know if I qualify him as lover. How about a jilted moron?" LOL... OMG... the hits just keep on coming!!!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:54 am
BTW Grooch, I totally agree with you. I don't think Luann was blindsided. A woman just knows...
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:56 am
First Kelly steals Bethany's thunder by being arrested on the day of Bethany's book being published. Now she is stealing Luananne's divorce thunder. tsk.. tsk...
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Lotsofkids
Member
08-11-2007
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 10:59 am
This show just keeps getting better and better!! there is a great video on TMZ of simon lifting up alex's dress exposing her thong to the cameras. the photographer asks them some questions and simon answers with his typical stuck up attitude. it's pretty funy!
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Csnog
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07-18-2002
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:56 pm
Luanne is his fourth or fifth wife. I also find it amusing that Simon has his own confessional. I don't think I've seen any other husband do that so does that make him the 7th housewife?
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Lotsofkids
Member
08-11-2007
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 1:01 pm
wow, if she's his 4th or 5th, and they were married 16 years, how OLD is this guy really?
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 1:11 pm
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they say Luann was 28 when she married him (and he's at least 15 years older - from the convo between Luann and Ramona)? So if Luann is 44, he must be, at the very least, 59 or 60 years old.
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Lotsofkids
Member
08-11-2007
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 1:13 pm
he looks to be in mid to upper 60's.
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Vacanick
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07-12-2004
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 1:30 pm
Per Wikipedia .. LuAnn de Lesseps (née Nadeau), a former Wilhelmina Models model, is a trained nurse, and is of Algonquin descent. She is the fourth wife of Count Alexandre de Lesseps (born 1949) , son of a French diplomat and a great-great-grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps, a developer of the Suez Canal.
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Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 2:22 pm
Thanks Vaca... so he is 60 years old. You know, he does look a lot older than 60 (probably spent too much time in the sun on the French Riviera). But I wonder if Ramona did not know how old he was, or wasn't, and that's why she thought The Count was much older than Luann than he actually was.
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Jhezzie
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07-05-2001
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 6:30 pm
Too much. Housewife news is as good as the show, lol. Does anyone else think that Kelly has a substance abuse problem? That whole business in the bar with Bethany was beee-zar.
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Kmm
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10-07-2005
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 6:31 pm
Maybe it's just because I like Bethany so much (she cracks me up!)...but, Kelly sure came off looking like a b**** tonight...
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 6:33 pm
kelly was crazy at the bar with bethanny. she went from non entity to disliked for me. i wish they would have a season 1 marathon so i could get caught up on all the storylines. on some of these fights i feel out of the loop.
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Kappy
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06-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 8:12 pm
So Luanne's his 4th wife and they've lived seperate lives for years. I say she knew and accepted the affairs as long as she could retain the title of "countess" and continue living rich in Manhattan. Sorry ~ no sympathy here. I'd love to hear Bethany's take on it, snort snort! So Kelly is "up here" and Bethany is "down here". Wonder how far that gets her with the other ladies in jail? And just how old is that kid she slapped? He could pass as her son! Again, I would love to hear Bethany's take on this, snort snort! And then we have Ramona and her husband ~ now there's a great duo when they drink! And if they're too good to be next to naked Alex, imagine how they'll feel about Kelly! (and again ~ snort, snort!) I think this season is going to be fun after all! 
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 8:16 pm
And New Jersey is next!! I'm bettin' we see a few dead bodies!! 
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 2:50 am
I said upthread I thought Kelly appeared to be shallow and self-centered. However, after Bethany told her she had been there since 7:00 (the time Kelly set) and waited half an hour for her and Kelly's response was "That's too bad," you can add "rude" to the mix. BTW, this weekend Bethany and Alex were on Huckabee. Evidently, Alex was the first one approached to appear on the show and it took a year to cast the other housewives.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 2:59 am
Kelly could have been nicer to Bethany, she was truly wrong when it came to making her wait. How sad that Luann would want the title of Countess so bad that she would tolerate the affairs of her husband. I want to see a photo of this Ethiopian women he is having the affair with. All this drama ! The NJ crew < begins in May > has a woman who sounds like something out of "The Sopranos"
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 3:04 am
Carmellaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 3:29 am
Kappy I've missed you! I totally agree with your post! Spot on! I think I'll join you 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 7:33 am
With the appearances on talk shows Bethany does come across and poised, and kind - so to see the "meeting" that Kelly set up (and I wouldnt have stayed past 15 - 20 min tops - but she had cameras and I'm thinking a producer reassuring Bethany - my guess!) and I seriously LOL at Kelly saying she is no drama - but she does believe that she is above drama, even tho I think she creates it - but that is my take - I could see Bethanny being rude at the charity meeting, but my take was because of the history of Bethany and Kelly - and Bethany had a great point "I'm not famous enough for you" - and Bethanny said in her confessional she was prepared to apologize.. and more of the men got confessionals last night! We saw more of Mario and Bobby! It will be an interesting end of season talk wont it?
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 8:26 am
what's wrong with the way us NJ housewives tawk? lol
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 9:53 am
They were all drunk last night (except Jill & her husband & possibly Bethany.) With that, they mostly made asses of themselves and hopefully have some remorse the next morning. Also, for some weird reason, I think that Simon and Alex are into swinging. They might have approached Ramona and she refused and the drama goes on from there. To strange that he keeps verbally attacking her, when she clearly wants nothing to do with him, and his wife doesn't make him stop. Plus, Silex met on the internet for just a one night stand. If I was Ramona, I would be running for the Hills, (as long as I know Spencer and Heidi are nowhere around!)
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 9:59 am
If Silex had asked Romona & Mario to "swing" you can bet Romona would have let the entire world know about it!!!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 10:01 am
Reader, I found it very disrespectful the way that Kelly showed up a 1/2 hour late to the charity meeting, kept calling Jill's daughter "cute" and "adorable" (as if she wasn't even sitting there) and then had to run out. I felt so bad for her daughter. The charity is in her honor and she was dismissed by a person that was invited to share and become part of the group. I think Kelly will be a great co-author for Luanne's ettiquete book.
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