‘RHONJ’ Stars Ordered To Pay $760K Chapter Judgement

The record of “Actual Housewives” stars going through extreme authorized bother is lengthy, and now, members of the Bravoverse can add one other title to it.

Jacqueline Laurita, who starred in Bravo’s “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” for seven seasons, and her husband, Christopher Laurita, have been hit with a court docket judgment ordering them to pay a hefty six-figure sum to the regulation agency Seidman & Pincus LLC.

In keeping with a brand new report, the authorized staff claimed they represented the previous “Actual Housewives” stars in 2014 as a part of Christopher’s chapter case for his clothes line, Signature Attire Group.

In early July 2025, a New Jersey decide formally ordered Jacqueline and Christopher, 55, to pay an enormous $760,000 judgment to attorneys at a litigation agency in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, per Us Weekly.

The submitting states that the truth TV couple was charged $342,000 for authorized companies, plus curiosity of $419,000, totaling $761,000.

Attorneys at Seidman & Pincus, Mitchell Seidman and Andrew Pincus, argued that they represented Jacqueline and Christopher as a part of a chapter case in 2014. In keeping with the submitting, the Bravo alums have been liable for paying for companies, in addition to any accrued curiosity.

The authorized paperwork declare that the regulation agency offered Jacqueline and Christopher with “in depth authorized” help, which included quite a lot of planning conferences and representing them in court docket throughout a 13-day trial.

The agency’s attorneys claimed they issued the Lauritas common invoices and that neither TV character ever raised considerations or points over the quantity.

“Over time, Defendants fell behind within the fee of charges and bills owing to [the law firm] pursuant to the Engagement Settlement, such that [the law firm] was compelled to request [permission] from the Chapter Courtroom to withdraw from its illustration of Defendants within the Actions,” the authorized paperwork learn, per Us Weekly.

After a while, the New Jersey regulation agency confirmed the court docket authorised its request to withdraw as attorneys for the Lauritas in April 2018.

This additionally is not the primary time the Lauritas have discovered themselves in scorching water over Christopher’s enterprise dealings. In keeping with NJ.com, the pair has confronted authorized troubles concerning Christopher’s attire firm for a while.

After the clothes firm filed for chapter in 2009, Christopher and Jacqueline have been sued and accused of utilizing its financial institution accounts to pay for personal jets, holidays, and flashy automobiles.

Decide Robert E. Grossman for the Southern District of New York ultimately discovered Christopher and the administration firm, Iconix, accountable for fraud. He was additionally discovered accountable for breach of his fiduciary obligation.

Christopher and Jacqueline aren’t the one “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” stars who’ve confronted unlucky authorized woes. In 2014, the present’s largest stars on the time, Teresa and Joe Giudice, have been sentenced to fifteen and 41 months in jail, respectively, for “committing a string of crimes as a part of a long-running monetary fraud conspiracy,” in line with the US Lawyer’s Workplace of New Jersey.

In keeping with the authorized paperwork, Teresa and Joe pleaded responsible to a mess of fraud expenses, together with one rely of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in addition to one rely of chapter fraud by concealment of belongings.

“The Giudices collectively deceived monetary establishments with patently false mortgage purposes; have been dishonest once they sought the safety of the chapter court docket and hid belongings and earnings from the trustee; and Giuseppe Giudice cheated the federal government by failing to pay taxes on years of great earnings,” U.S. Lawyer Paul J. Fishman stated. “Once they pleaded responsible, each admitted swearing to statements they knew have been lies. Jail is the suitable penalty for these critical monetary crimes.”