The Real Housewives of New Jersey (abbreviated RHONJ) is an American reality television series that premiered on May 12, 2009, on Bravo.Developed as the fourth installment of The Real Housewives franchise, it has aired eleven seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in the U.S. State of New Jersey. The current cast consists of Teresa Giudice. January 19, 2020 119. The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jackie Goldschneider is revealing exactly where her “family money” actually comes from along with details regarding her family’s financial arrangements. Jackie is likely sitting on a lot of cash — enough to be able to afford a fancy home in the Hamptons which she rents out for.

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For nearly 20 years, Jacqueline Laurita called the Garden State home, but the former star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey moved onto brighter — and presumably less drunken and probably less Italian — pastures. Though it's hard to imagine the peaceful calm she'll feel in the desert, away from Danielle Staub's 21 engagements and Teresa Giudice's general temperament, it's not really clear what drove her away (well, besides stripper-gate).

The star's move comes in the middle of some serious financial problems for the family, who have been battling foreclosure on their Franklin Lakes mansion since 2015. Between bankruptcy and fraud cases, it's not really surprising the couple would want a new start. As Laurita claimed in her famous opening sequence tagline, 'I am a Vegas girl, I will call your bluff.' So let's call it. The move feels like a reckoning for the star, who's moving back to the state that made her, but is it for brand new business opportunities or is she crawling home with her designer purse between her legs?

Jacqueline Laurita stopped being a reality housewife in 2017

In 2017, Jacqueline Laurita put all the table flipping, weave pulling, and baptism brawls behind her when she quit The Real Housewives Of New Jersey for good. She has little more to show for it other than a ban from the North Jersey Country Club and a presumable mountain of debt that would likely keep her away regardless (the place is expensive enough that membership prices are not listed on the website).

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the reality star confirmed that she was leaving the show because the network felt like she 'no longer [had] an authentic connection with two of the season's cast members' and she 'no longer fit in with the group.' Of course, she was talking about Teresa Giudice and her sister-in-law Melissa Gorga. Generally, people don't take too kindly when you out their plastic surgery on national TV and say they're 'full of f***ing sh**,' so it's not clear what Laurita was expecting.

According to Laurita, Bravo offered her a part-time role with the option of it becoming full time if she gelled with the girls, but she turned them down. 'That feeling that I had to kind of tryout again, it just didn't feel right,' she told Entertainment Tonight.

Other reports — which Laurita denied — claimed she had asked for too much money. Either way, she's free from the tethers of Bravo to make her big cross-country move.

Major money problems have plagued Jacqueline Laurita for years

It's easy to speculate that Jacqueline Laurita's move was rooted in financial problems. Her family was embroiled in a bankruptcy case for her husband's Signature Apparel clothing company for years. According to Radar Online, the star owed 'nearly $340,000' in back taxes from a tax lien that was filed in 2013. A separate tax lien from that same year saw her owe the IRS an additional $85,127. This isn't including the nearly $10,000 she allegedly paid off in 2016.

Let's just say, things haven't been easy for Laurita — especially while caring for a son with autism — but she was honest about her struggle when she returned to Season 7 as a full-time cast member. 'After my husband lost his company during that rough economy, it took some time for the decrease in income to catch up to us,' she wrote on her Bravo blog. 'We were also not prepared for the cost of raising a child with special needs .. Somehow, during our struggle, we have managed to stick it out and keep fighting to get through it.'

As of 2016, Laurita's husband was still trying to make BLK beverages happen, despite the fact it had been sucked into another lawsuit. His second company, The Little Kernel, appears to no longer even have a website, though they were reportedly looking for a $200 million investment in 2018. It sure seems like the family could use a fresh start.

Chris Laurita's fraud case was anything but cheap

Jacqueline Laurita spent the better part of a decade navigating a very complicated bankruptcy case with her husband Chris Laurita — and things really didn't work out in their favor. In fact, Chris was found liable for fraud and ordered to pay $1.8 million (roughly, the price of the Franklin Lakes mansion they can't seem to sell).

In 2009, Chris' clothing company, Signature Apparel, filed for bankruptcy. Everything seemed normal, at least in the world of Real Housewives bankruptcy cases, until a year later when they were sued by a court-ordered official who claimed the pair (along with other family members) '[used] Signature Apparel bank accounts to pay for private jets, lavish vacations and expensive cars,' according to NJ.com.

Radar Online reported that Chris' brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Adeline Laurita, managed to settle their end of the suit in 2014. The star's other brother, Anthony Laurita, took his portion of the case to court, but Jacqueline and Chris struggled. Their bankruptcy attorneys reportedly quit after the pair was unable to pay an outstanding $290,000 in legal fees, and their case was stalled. Chris did get his final fraud ruling until 2017, a whopping eight years after the bankruptcy case began. It is not clear how the couple plan to pay the $1.8 million owed, but selling their stuff on Facebook seems like a start.

Wanna buy Jacqueline Laurita's New Jersey home?

It wasn't exactly clear that Jacqueline Laurita wanted to leave the Garden State when she first listed her massive, Franklin Lakes mansion for $2.85 million in 2014, but it became increasingly more apparent in 2017, when the star left The Real Housewives of New Jersey and began aggressively slashing her home's prices.

According to NJ.com (via Page Six), the star listed the property for $2.78 million in 2017. Later that year, it was relisted for $2.3 million, but they still couldn't find a buyer. In 2019, amid plans for the family's cross-country move, the property was listed again — at $1.95 million. As of this writing, it's down to $1.75 million — nearly a million less than the couple was hoping to originally receive, and barely more than they paid for it, according to Bravo.

The Lauritas' home is undeniably nice. Is it multi-million dollar nice? Who knows? It's unclear why they haven't found a buyer in 5 years other than the fact that the 'median home price in Franklin Lakes [in spring 2019] is $1.1 million,' according to Page Six. The couple bought the six bedroom and 5.5 bath property in 2001. It's even got a wine cellar and gym, but with whiffs of foreclosure in the air, the couple might not have had much of a choice to sell it. Instead, they traded their spacious digs for a camper van, albeit temporarily. Sounds, erm, comfy.

Is foreclosure sending Jacqueline Laurita to Nevada?

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Jacqueline Laurita's Franklin Lakes mansion has been the subject of near-continuous foreclosure litigation since 2015. According to NJ.com, their lender first filed foreclosure papers in June 2015. The couple reportedly hadn't made a payment since October 2014, but some kind of arrangement was reached in 2016, because the foreclosure was dismissed. A different lender filed another notice of foreclosure in July 2017, which was active as of the April 2019 report. In other words: if the Lauritas can't sell their home, it will be taken from them.

When the family started selling their belongings on Facebook, it didn't really help the rumors that they might actually be losing their residence. They listed 14 items worth a total of $16,810, including $4,500 chandelier (that you had to come and remove yourself if you wanted it) and a $200 signed Silence of the Lambs poster. Though Chris said (via NJ.com) that they were selling their stuff because their new home was a 'completely

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