The Real Housewives of New York: Let’s Get It On!

These  women lost their ever-loving minds last night. The jealousies, one-up manship, pettiness and the downright silliness was put on display like an old time soap opera.

Here’s what went down:

Kelly Vs. Everyone

 
Absurdity:The media has attacked Kelly’s very important name with allegations that she beat up her ex-boyfriend.
Kelly said: "Every single day my name was in the paper." She pouts and tries to cry, as Jill demands that the producers get her a tissue.

Her  name? Kelly KILLOREN Bensimon
 
Kelly said: "Does anyone ever asked me what happened? No."
Luann said: "Well, he's definitely  not a gentleman."
She also said something about fertilizer?  Huh?
The Countess Vs. The Count
 
They couple are getting divorced after 16 years of marriage.
The Absurdity: Count Alex ended their relationship via email.

The Countess vs. The Ethiopian Princess
 
The Countess' husband left her for a woman who is  a princess.
Luann said: "I think that was slipped by [Alex and the princess] in order to make her look like just not an Ethiopian woman. I just thought it was interesting that he releases the fact that she's a princess to make it look 'OK.'" II don’t think so. The count is an asshole, truly. The Princess didn’t get much of a catch. And the Countess has the ace in the hole:  The male heir.

Ramona Has No Filter
 
Ramona said that the Countess' husband was an old man. The Countess overreacted.
Jill says to the Countess: "If it's none of my business, then why knock my rules that you would never take a guy's number when you [asked for my

husband's best friend's number]."
The Countess' defense: "Oh you are really searching, darling."
The Countess' jab: "Then why did you buy me a magnum of champagne?"
Jill said: "That I paid for by the way and you never paid me back."

Jill is such  a bitch
 
Ramona said she was working on a skin care line for a year and a half. Jill insisted that it was less time than that. Jill was like a bee buzzing in your ear…she wouldn’t stop.
Ramona said: "I have so many things, sometimes I get my age wrong."
Jill said: "Ok, then say that maybe you got the date wrong."
Ramona said: "Maybe I got the date wrong."
Jill said: "Alright, we're good. You said maybe you got the date wrong. That's all."
What was the point, Jill?

Ramona's Foot in Mouth Disease
 

Ramona blames her bad upbringing for her behavior and she does "the best I can."
Jill said: "That's a good answer."

Ramona Gets Humped? 
 
Ramona thinks Alex's kids are ill-behaved. They tried to hump her at a dinner party. Huh?
Alex's defense: They were one and three years old at the time.

Alex Calls Out Bethenny
 
Alex didn't appreciate Bethenny's interviews in which she made one-liners about people.
Alex said: "I don't go behind your back and say things that are really snarky. I say everything to your face."
Bethenny said: "Fair enough

More Kelly Absurdities
 
Kelly doesn't like it that Bethenny Frankel cries all the time about men. Bethenny was subdued and teary eyed, as Andy Cohen pointed out.
Absurdity: Kelly was the "ambassador for wool" and this makes her "authentic."
Kelly said: "I'm not gonna cry over crying.  What?  Kelly speaks her own language...the language of one.

Ramona’s Nasty Little Blog
 
Ramona wrote on her blog that the last laugh is on Bethenny because she is single."
Ramona said: "She said my advice went back before there were phones."
Ramona said: "I'm not writing blogs anymore. I'm not doing blogs."So annoying.

Can’t wait for part two.

related links:

Jill Zarin's Used Clothing

Alex

Kelly Bensimon: One Hot Mess

Bethenny

Countess De Lesseps

Ramona Singer

Real Housewives of New York City: Reunion Drama Much?

 Bravo recently extended the reunion into a special 2-hour long, 2-evening TV event. Must have been a lot of drama in that reunion! Will these women top the Oranges and the Peaches in accusations, tears, and drama?

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Count de Lesseps and Princess Kemeria in Ethiopia

from the Ethiopian Review

Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar

(EthioPlanet) — Last week, EthioPlanet.com revealed the name of the mysterious woman who until then was only known as the “Ethiopian Woman” Count Alexandre de Lesseps had apparently fallen for.

There were some disputes in the blogosphere as to the veracity of what EthioPlanet revealed. To avoid unnecessary defamation, we’ve now released a picture to go along with the name.

The featured photograph was taken in a limousine during a recent trip to Addis Ababa (capital of the AU), Ethiopia.

A source, close to the couple, Count Alexandre de Lesseps and Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar told EthioPlanet.com they were traveling in Ethiopia to promote micro-finance for Ethiopian women.

“They also have plans to open an orphanage in her hometown of Jimma, and to create in Addis Ababa, a museum of African history,” the source added.

Alexandre de Lesseps, 59, was raised in Khartoum, Sudan and in Tangiers, Morocco.

Micro financing is, of course, nothing new to the Count. He is, among other things, an entrepreneur, investment banker, and has pioneered micro financing in developing nations.

He is President of London based Coral Capital Ltd and Pandaw Investment Hldgs in Hong Kong. He is also co-founder and President of Blue Orchard Finance S.A., a leading micro finance management company based in Geneva.

More pictures will be released in the coming days featuring the couple together on their trip to Ethiopia.

Countess LuAnn’s Interview with “W” Magazine

 

Real Housewife LuAnn on etiquette, her "fan base," and that Bethenny : Editors' Blog: Wmagazine.com

 

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Princess Kemeria and Count de Lesseps

from various sources:

for a photo of the Princess, click here

The mysterious Ethiopian woman identified as the cause for the divorce between the reality star  LuAnn from The Real Housewives of New York and her husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps has been identified as Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar. She is the granddaughter of King Abajifar, the last King from the Gibe Kingdom of Jimmaa, located in current day Ethiopia. An inside source close to the Count, wishing to remain anonymous, confirmed the details in an email correspondence. The Ethiopian princess, and granddaughter of the King, is the niece of Ababiya Abajobir, another prominent man in the Oromo-Ethiopian community. He was one of the founding members of the OLF (Oromo Liberation Front), a guerrilla organization representing the majority Oromo ethnic group of Ethiopia, and served in various positions in the organization throughout its 35 year history. The source told EthioPlanet that it was the wish of both the Princess and Count Alexandre de Lesseps that she no longer be identified as “‘the Ethiopian woman’ but with her real identity.”

Fast Facts

1. Granddaughter of King Abba Jifar II, last king of Jimma
2. Abba Jifar was removed from power by Haile Selassie in 1930
3. Niece of Ababiya Abajobir, founding member of the Oromo Liberation Front²
4. De Lesseps have lived apart for years³
5. Identity revealed on the website EthioPlanet on April 9, 2009

 

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The Count-less Countess

 

April 9, 2009

Last month, Real Housewives of New York City star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps received a shocking email from her globe-trotting husband: “It said that he had met someone,” she recalls, “and they were serious.”

In an exclusive interview in the new issue of PEOPLE, de Lesseps, 43, admits that she and her husband had been separated for nearly three months when she received the note — but that didn’t make the message any easier to swallow. “I was devastated,” she says. “I knew that we were kind of separating, but I was hoping that things were going to work out.”

Married for 16 years to Count Alexandre de Lesseps, 59, LuAnn says she always assumed she would be “married forever.” When that didn’t happen, she held out hope that the news would remain private. But just last week, The New York Post revealed to the world that her husband was now openly involved with an Ethiopian woman in Geneva.

Beyond the public embarrassment, she says, having to break the news to the couple’s two children, Noel, 12, and Victoria, 14, has “probably been the hardest part.”

She’s also finding it difficult to get up every day and promote her new book, Class with the Countess, an autobiographical etiquette guide that hits bookstores April 16. “When I wrote the book I felt very secure,” says de Lesseps. “And that’s totally changed.”

The book, which is dedicated to her husband, contains a chapter titled “How to Get a Man to Stay in Love.” So why didn’t her own tips work?

“You can try all you want,” de Lesseps responds, “but if you’re not getting reciprocation from the other person, it’s not your fault.” –Mark Dagostino, People Magazine

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“Count”-ing: A New Countess De Lesseps?

from New York Social Diary:

“Word comes from across the sea, that New York Housewives’ LuAnn De Lesseps has flown off (desperately?) to Europe to see husband Alex in an attempt to save their crumbling marriage. Alex, the Count de Lesseps has, it is said on the streets of Geneva, taken up with a beautiful Ethiopian beauty who is not only quite a bit younger than he but also quite a bit younger than his wife.

In the meantime, the sixty-something count has slimmed down, tanned up and looks years younger, according to friends, which once again raises the age-old question: Ain’t love grand? In photographs of times past, Alex De Lesseps bears a vague physical resemblance to Bernie Madoff.

The present Count De Lesseps and his Luann have long been a popular couple (as Alex and LuAnn) in the US and on the international social scene. Friends say that since returning to the US several years ago, the countess, who is an American with native American descendents, has focused on developing her acting career.

The success of “The Real Housewives of New York’ some believe, has been detrimental to her marriage.”

What is to be expected of a man who has been married 4 or 5 times (depending on the source?)

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The Countess is Count-less

 

from msn:

“Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, one of the society ladies on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York” has separated from Count de Lesseps after 16 years of marriage. Her husband is a Frenchman whose ancestor presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States.

The reality star's publicist, Elizabeth Rosenthal, issued a statement Tuesday saying the couple "plan to remain friends and their primary focus will be to do what is best for their two children."

Rosenthal declined to comment on reports the breakup came after the former model learned The Count, Alex de Lesseps, was having a relationship with another woman.

But the Countess will keep her title, says Rosenthal. Her etiquette book, "Class With the Countess," arrives April 16.”

Great Advice from Countess Lu Ann

She married the “Count” three weeks after meeting him!

Seems LuAnn may not know from etiquette, but she did know how to ‘count’ her catch.

In the July 2008 issue of Harper's Bazaar , not only is it revealed that many of the de Lesseps claim to be aristos, but that LuAnn’s husband, despite this being his 5th marriage, needed a male heir.  Ramona was right, what the hell does LuAnn know.  And yes, LuAnn, he does look twice as old as you.  When we get to see his pompous ass.

In other news, Kelly Bensimon  may have faked the ass kicking and arrest incident in order to assure a second season on the show.  IMHO, she’s not having a first season on the show!  Again, why is she there?  Anyway, the New York Daily News has an article about it.  Any publicity is good publicity for famewhores, n’est pas?

 

                                                                                                     Nick and Kelly

 

They look like mother and son together. Kelly, with her sun-damaged horsey skin, looks older than her actual 40 years.  She does look like she could beat his ass, however.

How about Silex and their molded-out digs?  Definitely not a safe environment for children. Seems speaking French at age three is more important than whether or not the kids eat lead paint chips! The mold alone, growing for at least three years, will cost a fair amount of the $200,000 they plan to spend.  Ewwwwww………….

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Before the Infamous E-mail

But Does it “Count” with Pizza Delivery?

Every time we see The Countess DeLesseps on The Real Housewives of New York, we are reminded of the line spoken by the security guard in the 1984 movie”Moscow on the Hudson", when, speaking to Japanese tourists, he says, ”You in America, speak English!”.

Luanne Nadeau, a Native American from Connecticut, certainly seems to think this old European title means something in America.  It barely means anything in France, where is was conferred upon Ferdinand DeLesseps for his role in the construction of the Suez  Canal.  

Maybe the pizza delivery people in the Hamptons need to bone up on the Countess before the next delivery:

Princess Kemeria