Teresa Giudice (born May 18, 1972) is a reality television cast-member and fitness competitor, best known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Besides appearing on the show, Giudice has written multiple New York Times bestseller cookbooks and was featured on Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (2012).
On December 23, 2015, she was released from federal prison after serving 11 months of a 15-month sentence for fraud, while her husband and four daughters resided in the Towaco section of Montville, New Jersey. She is known for her extravagant lifestyle and highly publicized financial and legal troubles leading up to her prison sentence.
Her husband, born Giuseppe but called Joe, began his 41-month sentence on March 23, 2016
When Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman was embroiled in a colleage admissions scandal last year, the showbiz world waited to see how she would fare behind bars.
As it turns out, the Federal Correctional Institute, Dublin, isn't all that bad - making in onto Forbes' 2009 list of America's 10 Cushiest Prisons.
The prison, just outside San Francisco, has even been jokingly branded "Club Fed" by the media. The low-security, female-only institution has housed names like Real Housewives' Teresa Giudice and Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller.
A former Hollywood madam, Heidi Fleiss, was also kept there for 20 months in the Nineties for tax evasion - and she didn't think Felicity had anything to worry about.
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