Frank Pellegrino — best known for his role as the FBI Chief gunning for Tony Soprano on the HBO hit show — died after losing his battle with cancer. Frank — who also co-owned the popular Italian restaurant Rao’s in East Harlem — died in New York…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Bethenny Frankel Granted Restraining Order Against Jason Hoppy After Stalking Arrest
Bethenny Frankel has been granted an order of protection against her ex-husband Jason Hoppy, according to multiple media reports.
A spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office confirms that the order was sought after Jason Hoppy’s arrest for stalking.
According to TMZ, the order forbids Hoppy from contacting Frankel and orders him to stay away from the reality star’s place of residence.
He is also not permitted near her business, or their daughter’s school, for six months. The order also requires Jason to stay radio silent.
That means no communication with Bethenny whatsoever.
The only exception for Hoppy, obviously, is if a judge allows him access to locations where the two are trying to reach a custody arrangement.
(How hard they’re trying to actually reach said agreement, versus just spiting the other and racking up billable hours for lawyers, is debatable.)
Additionally, Jason is not permitted to have any “third party contact,” with Bethenny, though the order does not specify what that means.
It seems safe to assume, as TMZ notes, that it includes Bethenny’s boyfriend, Dennis Shields, who was with her when Jason got arrested.
Hoppy, 46, was arrested after he contacted Frankel, 45, “numerous times via email and FaceTime, and approached [her] making verbal threats.”
According to the New York Post, Hoppy was arrested after he allegedly showed up at six-year-old daughter Bryn’s Manhattan school.
That was on Friday, and he allegedly threatened Frankel.
During the confrontation, he supposedly claimed he would “destroy” her, and sources say he previously sent a series of abusive emails.
After emails and FaceTime calls “numbering in the hundreds” and after a cease and desist letter was sent” last fall, authorities made an arrest.
According to the crazy NYPD report filed afterward:
“On Friday, January 27, the suspect approached her and a friend at her child’s school at around 8:15 a.m. and tried to provoke a fight.”
“He said, ‘I will destroy you, you can get all the lawyers you want, you’ve been warned,’” and hours later, Hoppy was charged with harassment.
Hoppy also faces charges of stalking in the fourth degree, a spokeswoman for the NYPD says; Hoppy denies all charges against him.
His attorney Robert C. Gottlieb said, “There are no words to express how saddened Mr. Hoppy is over his ex-wife’s unjustified actions.”
“His only concern is his daughter and intends to vigorously fight these false charges … we fully intend to do our talking in the courtroom.”
Frankel finalized her divorce from Hoppy in July 2016.
It was a contentious, four-year court battle, unlike almost any we’ve covered – and we’ve seen a lot of nasty splits, by celebrity standards.
“The hardest parts have been anything that seems negative for my daughter,” she said last year, calling it “really challenging for me.”
“You know, you kind of have to look inside, find your strength,” Frankel added, insisting she is committed to putting her daughter first.
The couple, whose romance, marriage and road to parenthood were documented on RHONY and two spinoffs, both fall short of that.
Why do we say that? Isn’t it obvious?
If they really wanted to, couldn’t they stop fighting, strike a peace treaty or a non-aggression pact and move forward without this ordeal?
Or are they so pridefully stubborn they will stop at nothing – even sacrificing Bryn’s long-term happiness in the process – to “win” this?
Think about it.
Mackenzie McKee Posts Video of Son Kissing Dead Dog
There have been numerous Teen Mom parenting scandals over the years, but the latest controversy over TM3 star Mackenzie McKee is different for a couple of reasons:
For starters, McKee isn’t really famous anymore, so unlike some of her predecessors who had the good fortune to get pregnant while the basic cable gettin’ was good, it takes a lot more for her to get a genuine WTF?! reaction from social media.
On top of that, this may be the only time that Teen Mom – or any reality show franchise – has been wrapped up in a scandal involving the improper handling a deceased puppy.
In case you don’t follow McKee on Snapchat (What have you been doing with your life?!), she’s been updating fans about the ongoing drama surrounding her pregnant dog, Mia.
Mia finally gave birth to yesterday, and sadly, it seems one of her puppies didn’t survive.
Mackenzie offered online updates on the bittersweet occasion in the McKee household, even as things got increasingly weird:
“Update everyone,” Mackenzie says in the first clip. “Mia just had a C-section, and one puppy made it.”
Generally, it doesn’t get much more macabre than a dead puppy post, but believe it or not, things got darker from there, you’ve been warned:
“OK. So, one of the dogs didn’t make it,” Mackenzie says, “and I don’t know how to tell my son.”
The camera pans over to young Gannon cradling the puppy, clearly oblivious to the fact that it’s gone the way of Old Yeller and like 40 pooches in that sh-tty A Dog’s Purpose movie.
Asked what he plans to do with the puppy, Gannon replies, “Keep it.”
His mother’s appeals seem to fall on deaf ears.
“Gannon, you know that dog is dead, right?” Mackenzie asks.
“Yeah,” the boy replies.
“Gannon, I think that that doggie went to doggie heaven and we need to bury it,” says Mackenzie. “You’re just going to keep a dead dog?”
Gannon eventually hands over the departed pooch, but not before planting a goodbye kiss on its snout, in a moment that some viewers found heartbreaking, others horrifying.
Perhaps anticipating some social media backlash, Mackenzie posted a message explaining the weirdness we had just witnessed:
“Before I start getting all getting all these crazy messages, we did leave the momma alone with the puppy for hours, and she just wanted nothing to do with him,” Mackenzie claims.
“We called the vet and asked everything that we should do, and he said we needed to feed him. So yes, we have done everything that the vet told us to do, and Gannon is having a hard time saying goodbye to the puppy that didn’t make it.”
Hey, kids do weird stuff, and it looks like Mackenzie handled the situation as best she could, especially given all the drama she’s been dealing with in her own life.
In August, McKee welcomed her third child, a boy named Broncs.
Less than five months later, Mackenzie confirmed her separation from her husband amid cheating allegations.
All of this, and a little morbid farm-life weirdness?
It might be time for MTV to look into giving this girl a spinoff.
Cesar Millan says a White House dog Would Soften President Trump (VIDEO)
Cesar Millan says President Trump has drawn a hard line so far, but there’s something that could soften him. Cesar was out in Bev Hills Tuesday when he told our photog about the virtues of a White House dog, and how it might affect…
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