NJ Housewives Celebrity Bankruptcy is Worthy of its Own Reality Show
Here's a tip; if you're going to live extravagantly, don't make that lifestyle the focus of a reality show. Teresa Guidice starred in the reality show, Real Housewives of New Jersey, with her husband Giuseppe. Mrs. Guidice was often featured on the Bravo show going on outlandish spending sprees to furnish their newly constructed and underwater, $1.7 million dollar home. Now, the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee is alleging the debtors hid more than $250,000 in assets in their bankruptcy petition filed in November, 2009.
You don't have to look very far to see the cash fly. Teresa Guidice has a book, Skinny Italian; an online clothing boutique, T.G. Fabulicious LLC.; and the couple is also accused by the trustee of having an interest in a pizza parlor and laundromat. They also mysteriously made more luxurious purchases after their bankruptcy filing. Apparently, the online company made these purchases for their household goods totaling more than $60,000. The trustee is seeking a preclusion of discharge and/or a dismissal of the bankruptcy case that would deny the debtors the benefits of bankruptcy. The drama unfolding in federal Bankruptcy Court is worthy of a reality show all its own.
There is a lesson in here somewhere I just know it. I suspect that hiding assets from the bankruptcy trustee is never a wise idea. Remember that you are signing your bankruptcy petition and schedules under penalty of perjury that you have disclosed all of your assets and all of your debts. Bankruptcy Fraud is Prosecuted and is a Crime.
