Mauricio Umansky Gives Update on ‘Working Relationship’ With Rick Hilton After Detailing Hilton and Hyland Drama in Book

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Where they stand now. Mauricio Umansky and brother-in-law Rick Hilton have had their ups and downs over the years, but things have improved between them when it comes to business.“Rick and I have a very good working relationship today,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting his new book, The Dealmaker. “Obviously, it’s a different problem between the families.”The reality star and his brother-in-law, 67, had a falling out in 2011 when Hilton didn’t promote Umansky to full partner at his real estate firm, Hilton & Hyland.

Umansky went on to start his own brokerage, The Agency, which is now the subject of the Netflix reality show Buying Beverly Hills.“We got through that,” Umansky said of the conflict over his promotion, adding that his wife, Kyle Richards, and her sister Kathy Hilton still have problems of their own. (Kathy, 64, has been married to Rick since 1979.)“I just hope that as Rick and the family read my book, they realize that my stories are facts and real, and I’m certainly not throwing anything at them, because I love them more than anything,” the Netflix personality told Us. “And I think that what they do is fantastic.

So, I just hope that that’s the way it’s read. Right now, they’ve got other issues that don’t have anything to do with me, so that’s OK.”In The Dealmaker, Umansky claimed that Rick and Kathy stopped speaking to him and Richards, 54, after he started The Agency. “They couldn’t understand how I could just make the decision overnight and not give them a chance to convince me otherwise,” the University of Southern California alum wrote. “They cut all communication and no longer invited us to Thanksgiving dinners or other holidays.”The two families