The Real Housewives of New Jersey' Teresa Giudice & Joe Giudice & Family Feud Over $ 5 Beach Fees [REPORT]
Teresa Giudice and her husband Joe Giudice may be more financially strapped than their fans know. The couple had a feud with beach officers over failure to pay a $5 beach entrance fee.
TMZ reported on Tuesday the Giudices, along with a group of 30 friends, spent a day at Ship Bottom beach in Long Beach Island, NJ on Aug. 24. When a beach employee approached the couple and asked for beach badges for each person--which proves the entrance fee was paid for--the pair "flipped," and were "refusing to pay to go to the beach," said a source.
An eyewitness told the gossip site that they heard a Giudice family member tell the female beach employee, "F*** you, f*** this we are not paying for the f***ing beach. This is a joke!"
The insults led the girl to cry, according to the report, and the beach's local authorities were called to the scene. The Giudicies eventually paid the fee of $5 per person in their group of 30 people.
The couple's financial woes were first reported in June 2010. New York Post's Page Six was the first to report that the couple filed for bankruptcy after the first season fo RHONJ aired. The couple reportedly owed almost $11 million to multiple creditors while claiming to earn a combined income of $79,000.
On July 29, the couple was indicted for 39 charges related to financial fraud. Their lengthy list of offenses includes falsifying information on their applications for mortgage, the IRS and W-2s, conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, and bankruptcy fraud. Joe is not an American citizen and faces deportation if found guilty on his charges, which include using his brother's name to obtain a driver's license.
See the full list of charges here.
When the couple appeared in a Newark, N.J. court room on July 30, they were released on $500,000 unsecured bail bonds each after they were read their rights and list of charges. They later plead not guilty when they returned to court on Aug.14.
U. S. District Judge Esther Salas set the couple's trial date for Oct. 8.
