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Erika Jayne & Tom Girardi
Erika Girardi and Tom Girardi.Steve Eichner/AP
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsstarfiled for divorcefrom the former lawyer after 21 years of marriage in November 2020,amid Girardi’s legal battles related to accusations of fraud and embezzlement.
“It is my absolute wish to proceed through this process with respect and with the privacy that both Tom and I deserved,” she added. “I request others give us that privacy as well.”
Onan episode ofRHOBHthat aired in June 2021, Jayne addressed her divorce, saying during a confessional, “I left because he pushed me further and further out. The conversations that I used to have were now reduced down to a sentence or two. I just kept walking around that house and knowing that this marriage was headed down a really s—– path, I had to make a choice to do what was right for me. I couldn’t live that way anymore.”
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Meghan King & Cuffe Owens
Cuffe Owens (left) and Meghan King.Meghan King/Instagram
After about two and half months of marriage, theReal Housewives of Orange Countyalum confirmed that her marriage to PresidentJoe Biden’s nephew had come to an end.
03of 17Dorinda Medley & John MahdessianJohn Mahdessian and Dorinda Medley.Patrick McMullan via GettyAfter seven long years, thecouple surprisingly called it quits in September 2019. On a 2020 episode ofRHONY, Medley explained that they had simply grown apart over time.“The breakup with John is sad. I mean, it’s terrible. But I also know that I have to do what’s best for me now,” Medley said.“Endings are painful, but they’re sometimes good and healthy and needed,” she told audiences. “It’s so easy just to keep communicating and just falling into old habits. Because I have a feeling if I didn’t do this, it would just keep staying plateaued for 10 years, 15 years. And then what?”
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Dorinda Medley & John Mahdessian
John Mahdessian and Dorinda Medley.Patrick McMullan via Getty
After seven long years, thecouple surprisingly called it quits in September 2019. On a 2020 episode ofRHONY, Medley explained that they had simply grown apart over time.
“The breakup with John is sad. I mean, it’s terrible. But I also know that I have to do what’s best for me now,” Medley said.
“Endings are painful, but they’re sometimes good and healthy and needed,” she told audiences. “It’s so easy just to keep communicating and just falling into old habits. Because I have a feeling if I didn’t do this, it would just keep staying plateaued for 10 years, 15 years. And then what?”
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Bethenny Frankel & Jason Hoppy
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Frankel said she feared for her safety while sharing an apartment with Hoppy after they had separated, and also claimed during her testimony that she had a padlock installed on her bedroom door for protection. (The twoseparatedin December 2012, and Frankelfiled for divorceone month later.)
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Teresa & Joe Giudice
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After 20 years of marriage and two prison sentences,the Giudices, who share four daughters, splitin December 2019. The painful ending to their relationship was an ongoing storyline onRHONJ, and culminated in Joe’s deportation to Italy.
“They discussed their future when Teresa and the girls went to Italy in early November and they agreed that each had to move on,” a source exclusively toldPEOPLEin 2019. “They are doing so amicably and very slowly.”
At the time, a source said that the two weren’t exploring divorce proceedings yet, though Teresa has since said she is working on it.
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Shannon & David Beador
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TheRHOCcouple looked as though they were going to turn over a new leaf after theirvow renewal ceremony, but things didn’t go as planned. After 17 years of marriage and welcoming three daughters,the Beadors split in 2017.
Shannon was awarded $1.4 million and a total of $10,000 monthly support in their 2019divorce settlement. The two agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their daughters.
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Kenya Moore & Marc Daly
Kenya Moore and Marc Daly.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Their separation came less than one year after Moore gave birth to their first child,daughter Brooklyn Doris Daly, on Nov. 4, 2018.
During an April 2020 appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, theRHOAstar said that while they’re not physically together amid thecoronavirus pandemic, they’re in a much better place emotionally.
“We’re actually getting along better than we’ve gotten along probably [since] shortly after we got married,” she said. “I mean, it’s just been no arguments, no real fights or disagreements. He’s been really sweet and caring and thoughtful. It’s like, ‘Wow, this is the man I married.’ "
As for whether the star wants to work on their relationship, Moore said, “I think when you’re married you have to try everything to stay together. If you exhaust everything, then you’ll have your answer at the end of the day. So right now, yeah, if he’s going to be a changed person, yes. If he’s going to be the Marc that you’ve seen [this season], no.”
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NeNe & Gregg Leakes
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The Leakes know how to overcome adversity. The couple, who separated back in 2010 and divorced the following year, remarried in 2013 and continued their commitment to each other.
“Oh Lawd! They say we separated now @greggleakes #fakenews I appreciate you tho Gregg for accepting and understanding that being a care taker is something I’ve never done and i have truly done the best i know how all while making tons of mistakes along the way,” she wrote. “You never asked to get sick and We were both thrown into these new positions over nite but whew chile you have kicked cancers ass!”
09of 17Ramona & Mario SingerSonia Moskowitz/Getty Images.TheRHONYstar filed for divorce after she reportedlycaught her husband with his alleged then-girlfriend, Kasey Dexter, in their Hamptons home in 2014. According to former Housewife Jill Zarin,Ramona had been “protecting” Marioat the time, looking the “other way when people told her he was cheating.” But after giving him “many chances,“Ramona filed for divorceafter 22 years of marriage.“I tried to make my marriage work because I have strong values and I believe that people make mistakes,” Singer told PEOPLE exclusively in 2014. “But you reach a point where you realize the other person isn’t putting in as much effort as you are. And I reached my breaking point.“Fast forward to March 2020, the former couple, and parents to daughter Avery, surprised fans when their daughterrevealed that they were in quarantine as a familyduring the COVID-19 pandemic.“Another family meal and you’re not going to believe who I’m with,” Avery said on Instagram, before flipping the video to show Ramona and Mario seated at the same table.“I’m self-isolating with Avery’s dad,” Ramona said. “He’s going to eat dinner [with us] every night.“Avery went on to call their meal “a plot twist for a quarantining squad.““Happy to all be together through this,” she said.
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Ramona & Mario Singer
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TheRHONYstar filed for divorce after she reportedlycaught her husband with his alleged then-girlfriend, Kasey Dexter, in their Hamptons home in 2014. According to former Housewife Jill Zarin,Ramona had been “protecting” Marioat the time, looking the “other way when people told her he was cheating.” But after giving him “many chances,“Ramona filed for divorceafter 22 years of marriage.
“I tried to make my marriage work because I have strong values and I believe that people make mistakes,” Singer told PEOPLE exclusively in 2014. “But you reach a point where you realize the other person isn’t putting in as much effort as you are. And I reached my breaking point.”
Fast forward to March 2020, the former couple, and parents to daughter Avery, surprised fans when their daughterrevealed that they were in quarantine as a familyduring the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Another family meal and you’re not going to believe who I’m with,” Avery said on Instagram, before flipping the video to show Ramona and Mario seated at the same table.
“I’m self-isolating with Avery’s dad,” Ramona said. “He’s going to eat dinner [with us] every night.”
Avery went on to call their meal “a plot twist for a quarantining squad.”
“Happy to all be together through this,” she said.
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Alexis & Jim Bellino
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RHOCfans watched as Alexis admitted she and Jim were in a “broken marriage for a lot of years” before officially divorcing in 2018 after being married for 14 years and welcoming three children together.
Fans got to see Alexis and Jim’s relationship dynamic during her four seasons onRHOC.The Bravo cameras caught the ups and the downs of their marriage, including a recurring conflict they had over Alexis' desire to spend time with her castmates.
“Wives stay home,” he told her during one particularly tense scene in an early episode. “There’s only so much time in a day to raise my children. You’ve got to say no to some things.”
Asked onReality Checkif she believed the show contributed to her breakup, Alexis said, “Jim and I have two different opinions about that.”
“For me, the show didn’t tear us apart more because it actually gave me something that was my own and it gave me a career and I wasn’t just a wife, a maid, a nurse, a mom, a taxi driver — I actually had something that was for me again,” she said. “But I know he feels that the show probably brought the marriage to an end.”
Since her split from Jim, Alexis has moved on with her now-boyfriendAndy “Drew” Bohn.
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Meghan King & Jim Edmonds
Jim Edmonds and Meghan King.Meghan King Edmonds/Instagram
12of 17Cynthia Bailey & Peter ThomasCynthia Bailey and Peter Thomas.Way before Bailey had found her CHill withfiancé Mike Hill, theRHOAstar hadstruggled in her marriage with ex-husband Thomas.Since tying the knot in January 2011, Bailey and Thomas weathered cheating scandals,squabbles with Bailey’s palsandsexual lulls. In season 6, Thomas told Bailey: “We can’t continue like this. Somebody needs an escape route.“By 2016, the two called it quits and officially finalized their divorce a year later. Bailey and Thomas have had a peaceful split and have remained friendly. He also appeared on the show for a little while following their split.
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Cynthia Bailey & Peter Thomas
Cynthia Bailey and Peter Thomas.
Way before Bailey had found her CHill withfiancé Mike Hill, theRHOAstar hadstruggled in her marriage with ex-husband Thomas.
Since tying the knot in January 2011, Bailey and Thomas weathered cheating scandals,squabbles with Bailey’s palsandsexual lulls. In season 6, Thomas told Bailey: “We can’t continue like this. Somebody needs an escape route.”
By 2016, the two called it quits and officially finalized their divorce a year later. Bailey and Thomas have had a peaceful split and have remained friendly. He also appeared on the show for a little while following their split.
13of 17Phaedra Parks & Apollo NidaPrince Williams/FilmMagic.During her time on the show, Parks stayed tight-lipped about her divorce from then-husband Nida — no matter how much her castmates nudged her to spill details.Thetwo split in 2014, the same yearNida pled guiltyto bank fraud and identity theft, which resulted in him serving an eight-year prison sentence.“I never wanted to negatively speak about Apollo,” Parks exclusively toldPEOPLEin April 2017. “At the end of the day, Apollo is [our] children’s father. And so I want them to be able to make their own opinions about who he is as a father.“As for why she didn’t confide in her former castmates, Parks said, “None of them had been supportive throughout the process. So I knew their questions weren’t coming from a place of support — it was from a place of being nosy, wanting to know what was going on with my marriage and the divorce.”
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Phaedra Parks & Apollo Nida
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During her time on the show, Parks stayed tight-lipped about her divorce from then-husband Nida — no matter how much her castmates nudged her to spill details.
Thetwo split in 2014, the same yearNida pled guiltyto bank fraud and identity theft, which resulted in him serving an eight-year prison sentence.
“I never wanted to negatively speak about Apollo,” Parks exclusively toldPEOPLEin April 2017. “At the end of the day, Apollo is [our] children’s father. And so I want them to be able to make their own opinions about who he is as a father.”
As for why she didn’t confide in her former castmates, Parks said, “None of them had been supportive throughout the process. So I knew their questions weren’t coming from a place of support — it was from a place of being nosy, wanting to know what was going on with my marriage and the divorce.”
14of 17Adrienne Maloof & Paul NassifDavid Livingston/GettyAlthough the formerRHOBHstar and ex-husband Nassif were seen bickering on the show, things were supposedly a lot worse when the cameras were off.In 2012,Nassif filed for divorcefrom his wife of 10 years, with whom he shares three children. Thingsgot really dark during their custody battle, which involved them filing court documents describing shouting matches with accusations about guns, insults and physical abuse.“Adrienne is a really fierce momma bear,” a source toldPEOPLEat the time. “The tension in the house was something that kids didn’t need to hear. The split is the best thing for everyone.“Nassif is now married to Brittany Pattakos. The couple got married less than four months after Nassif proposed in June 2019. The two are currentlyexpecting their first child together.
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Adrienne Maloof & Paul Nassif
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Although the formerRHOBHstar and ex-husband Nassif were seen bickering on the show, things were supposedly a lot worse when the cameras were off.
In 2012,Nassif filed for divorcefrom his wife of 10 years, with whom he shares three children. Thingsgot really dark during their custody battle, which involved them filing court documents describing shouting matches with accusations about guns, insults and physical abuse.
“Adrienne is a really fierce momma bear,” a source toldPEOPLEat the time. “The tension in the house was something that kids didn’t need to hear. The split is the best thing for everyone.”
Nassif is now married to Brittany Pattakos. The couple got married less than four months after Nassif proposed in June 2019. The two are currentlyexpecting their first child together.
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Yolanda Hadid & David Foster
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Hadid and Foster’s divorce was made final in 2017, after four years of marriage. The formerRHOBHstar has been open about how her battle with Lyme disease affected her relationship with the music producer.
“All of a sudden all of the things we shared, all of the things we used to love to do together — go for walks in the morning, having a studio in the house and blasting music all day, having dinner parties — that all shut down,” shetold PEOPLEin August 2017. “I couldn’t participate in that life anymore.”
Hadid also opened up about the toll the illness took on her marriage in her memoir,Believe Me: My Battle With the Invisibility of Lyme Disease.
“He lost his wingman, his partner in crime, and I felt as if he’s starting to get impatient with my recovery,” she continued. “I understand that even brief periods of illness can strain important relationships in your life. A chronic condition like mine, one that has consumed years of our lives, poses enormous challenges.”
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Tamra Judge & Simon Barney
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In January 2010, Barney filed for divorce,claiming in his filing that Judge"has been verbally abusive and has committed acts of disloyalty and adultery.” (Shedeniedall allegations at the time). Later that year, Barney was charged with domestic violence after allegedlythrowing a retractable dog leash at his then-wife. (The charges were ultimately dropped.)
Their divorce was finalized in 2011, and they agreed to share equal custody of their three children: Spencer Sophia and Sidney. (Tamra also has a son, Ryan Vieth, from a previous relationship.) But even well afterTamra got married to third husband Eddie Judge, she still found herself fighting with Barney.
In March 2014,he attempted to get full custody of their kids, filing court documents that said she had been neglectful of them.
Ultimately, Simon’s case would be denied — but Tamra would still relinquish custody of Sidney to Simon after their daughter opted to live with him full-time.
It would be years until they spoke again.
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Camille & Kelsey Grammer
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Camille and Kelsey, who share children Mason and Jude, were married for nearly 14 years before she filed for divorce in July 2010. Both have been open about their contentious relationship.
Kelsey met current wife Kayte Walsh in England when he was still married toCamille. The formerRHOBHstar filed for divorce from Kelsey in 2010 after he told her of his affair when filming wrapped on season 1 ofHousewives.
Their divorce wouldgo on to be finalized in 2011. Two weeks later,Kelsey and Walsh said “I do.”
Kelsey has said that he regretted how he handled his divorce from Camille, telling Anderson Cooper in 2012 that he wished he was honest about his affair from the get-go.
“It was the wrong decision,” he said. “I should have come home from England when I first met Kayte and said, ‘Listen, I’ve met somebody and this hasn’t been working for a long time.’ And I regret not doing that.”
In 2018, Camille added to the conversation, expressing on Twitter that she was disappointed their marriage didn’t end in a “more civil manner.”
source: people.com
