‘Real Housewives’ Mugshots: See Which Stars Have Been Arrested

Credit: Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office(2); Fulton County Sheriff; NCPD

‘Real Housewives’ Mugshots: See Which Stars Have Been Arrested

Reality TV sometimes stretches the definition of “unscripted,” but there was certainly nothing scripted about any of these Real Housewives arrests. In the past three decades, many stars of the Bravo franchise have found themselves in handcuffs for a variety of reasons. In perhaps the biggest legal drama in the franchise’s history, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice spent 11 months in prison in 2015 after she and husband Joe pleaded guilty to multiple federal fraud charges the year prior. (Joe subsequently served a three-year prison sentence and was ordered to be deported to his native Italy in October 2018.) [jwplayer O0FGL7fL-l3ahXupL] But Guidice was hardly the first Housewife to run afoul of the law. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Brandi Glanville was arrested for DUI in October 2010, agreeing to a plea deal the following April. The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Kelly Dodd was arrested in July 2014 for domestic violence, later being obliged to complete 10 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and six months of therapy. RHOBH’s Kim Richards, meanwhile, was cuffed in April 2015 and sentenced to three years’ probation that September for resisting arrest for public intoxication and trespassing at a hotel. And RHOC star Gina Kirschenheiter was sentenced to three years’ informal probation and 20 hours of community service in July 2019 after a DUI arrest that January. Scroll down to read about other Real Housewives stars who’ve been arrested.

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June 1986: Danielle Staub

The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum, then known as Beverly Merrill, was arrested in June 1986 and charged with eight felonies, including extortion, cocaine possession and narcotics conspiracy. She later pleaded guilty to a single felony count and was sentenced to five years’ probation. In 2009, she told Us Weekly that only the facts that she was arrested and changed her name were true, adding, “I was a different person.”

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1992: NeNe Leakes

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star was 25 at the time of her 1992 arrest, after which she was charged with three felony and one misdemeanor counts of “theft of services” from a phone company. She pled guilty to all four counts, ordered to repay $2,650 and sentenced to two years’ probation.

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January 2010: Marysol Patton

Patton, an alum of the now-defunct Real Housewives of Miami, was arrested for DUI in Miami in January 2010 but pled guilty later that year to a lesser charge of reckless driving and was fined $1,000.

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June 2010: Sonja Morgan

The Real Housewives of New York City star was arrested on Long Island in June 2010 and charged with DWI, but the outcome of the case has not been made public.

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April 2014: Porsha Williams

A warrant for the RHOA star’s arrest was issued after she got into a fight with costar Kenya Moore at a reunion taping for the Bravo show. Williams was booked and released on a simple battery misdemeanor charge.

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March 2015: Ana Quincoces

The former RHOM star was charged with knowingly driving with a suspended license in Key Largo, Florida, in March 2015 but avoided jail time through Monroe County’s pre-trial intervention program.

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April 2016: Tinsley Mortimer

The RHONY star was arrested for trespassing on her ex-boyfriend Nico Fanjul’s property in Palm Beach, Florida, in April 2016. The charges were dropped by the following January.

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December 2017: Luann de Lesseps

Lesseps, one of RHONY’s original stars, was charged with battery, trespassing and disorderly intoxication after a December 2017 incident in Palm Beach, Florida. The following August, she struck a plea deal involving one year of probation and 50 hours of community service.

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February 2020: Jules Wainstein

The RHONY alum was arrested in February 2020 for allegedly hitting estranged husband Michael Wainstein in Boca Raton, Florida.