First there was the preemptive strike over the possible release of a sex tape from Danielle Staub's ex. This ex describes some of their sex life:
"Not only does she want to have sex all the time, but she loves the thrill of doing it in public places, where she might get caught," he told Star magazine. "She wanted to make love in restaurant bathrooms basically every time we went out -- she'd get all excited and say, 'The people can hear you doing it outside!"
Well, enjoying sex is not a crime. But defamation is. Danielle Staub, the star of The REAL Housewives of New Jersey is being struck back for defamation and more from Kevin Maher.
**UPDATE: Kevin Maher is clearly a man of his word. He filed a lawsuit against Danielle Staub for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress this week.
From E!:
Danielle Staub's brief first marriage may not have been a bed of roses, but according to her ex, it certainly wasn't a bed of broken glass, either!
Kevin Maher, who was married to the Real Housewives of New Jersey star for barely a year in the 1980s, tells E! News that Staub has repeatedly slandered him and he is planning to take legal action.
"I am filing a lawsuit against my ex-wife, Danielle Staub, stemming from her allegations that I raped her on a bed of broken glass, inserted my handgun inside her and played Russian Roulette, and last but not least, killing her dog by way of hanging it," Maher states. "She also threatened me on the reunion show that Bravo aired."
On that Real Housewives reunion special (which our guest blogger Bethenny Frankel found totally "boring"), Staub toted along a copy of Cop Without a Badge, an exposé about Maher's life as a police informant that revealed Staub used to go by the name Beverly Ann Merrill, had a history of prostitution and drug use and once faced federal charges in connection with an extortion plot.
But Maher apparently fears that he's the one who came out of all this looking bad.
"It hurt my business and my reputation," Maher says of the comments Staub made about him after becoming a household name during the Jersey girls' premiere season.
He says that, rather than settle, he wants his day in court—or, more pointedly, he wants to watch the 47-year-old mother of two squirm on the witness stand.
A rep for Staub did not immediately return a request for comment.
She and the father of her two daughters, Thomas Staub, divorced in 2007.
Who is telling the truth in these accusations? Or the "most truth" we might ask. It's he said, she said with this Bravolebrity. The one thing that should be pretty solid fact is her rap sheet. The past may shed some light on the future. But even this arrest has been explained away on the reunion shows as being a set-up of some sort.
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Actual court documents: (see ALL of the paperwork at Smoking Gun link at bottom - this is only a portion)
(skipping ahead)
Full story from The Smoking Gun HERE.
Danielle Staub rap sheet
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