Report: Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle Staub’s criminal past revealed

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Report: Real Housewives of NJ’s Danielle Staub’s Criminal Past Revealed - PEOPLE TV Watch



From phone sex to Botox, Danielle Staub has already injected drama into The Real Housewives of New Jersey but, as viewers of Bravo’s reality hit know, it’s about to get really ugly.

Tuesday’s episode showed skeptical costar Caroline Manzo promising to thoroughly investigate Staub after hearing rumors about her acquaintance. And in a preview of next week’s episode, it appears the Manzo family has done just that, discovering a book, Cop Without a Badge, that purports to expose secrets from Staub’s past.

New Jersey’s Star-Ledger obtained a copy of the out-of-print book, and revealed its contents, which expose Staub, 46, as a woman named Beverly Merrill, a one-time stripper with a criminal past.

According to the book, Merrill met the subject of Cop Without a Badge, a felon-turned-FBI informant named Kevin Maher, at a drug party in Miami in the ’80s. Their meeting came after she was released on $10,000 bail following an arrest on charges she was involved in the alleged kidnapping of a man who owed her drug dealer friend money. As a result, Merrill and her dealer friend were caught by police and charged with extortion, kidnapping and possession after they failed to collect a ransom from their victim’s father.

But with his police connections, Maher allegedly helped Merrill get a deal, and she pleaded guilty only to the charge of extortion. She was sentenced to five years probation, according to the report.

The book then goes on to say that Merrill wed Maher (he was married when they met) and attempted to start a family. But Merrill, who was dancing at the strip club Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J., under the name Danielle, was not a suitable partner for Maher, and he left her.

The book also includes more sensational reports about Merrill’s aversion to wearing underwear, her drug use and sleeping with more than 1,000 men.

When reached for a comment, a Bravo rep would only encourage viewers to tune in, saying, “Watch what happens.” According to Star-Ledger’s report, the book Cop Without a Badge received some skeptical reviews on Amazon.com from people apparently closely associated with Maher’s family.

But Gawker.com conducted a public records search, which revealed that Danielle Staub did indeed go by the names Beverly Merrill, Danielle Maher and Beverly Maher.

As for how the drama will play out on television with the Manzos’ own investigation, as it most undoubtedly will, well, stay tuned. – Brian Orloff

[AquariusMoon]

so far i only really like caroline on the show.. i can't stand dina or danielle.. teresa's voice gets on my nerves.. and the other one, jacqueline.. she just seems totally out of place there..

[cupcake]

I dont like the Jersey girls, give me more New York

[Penny Lane]

I can't stand any of these bitches.

[happy8]

I liked NY better. However, with all the bad publicity Danielle is drumming up I bet it soars in ratings...

[cupcake]

Her mug shots or horrific. Did she have a sex change?

[witchcurlgirl]

But Merrill, who was dancing at the strip club Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J.

That's the club they used as the Bada-Bing...for all you Sopranos fans

[Penny Lane]

Gawker - The Real Stripping Coke Fiend of New Jersey - Danielle staub mugshot

[TheONe]

My Girlfriend is a big fan of the "Real Housewives" series but she said that she caught the New Jersey one and said that the women are LUNATICS! She said that Jersey must be on another planet because no one can act like them..

[sluce]

I saw an interview with other women from that town who said these women actually do act like this and indicated that they are not well liked except for the one who has several kids. I don't watch it so I am not sure which one that it. I also heard they are casting now for Real Housewives of DC.

[Laxmobster]

^ Yeah they are looking in DC, I posted that in the RHONJ thread. I can actually think of a few women in the Georgetown area that act this way.... Actually there is a ritzy cougar den called Cafe Milano (only reason I went was we were meeting a friend's Dad), but basically Bravo could walk in there and take their pick.

Teresa is the one who has all the brats...er...I mean kids!

[czb]

Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl

But Merrill, who was dancing at the strip club Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J.

That's the club they used as the Bada-Bing...for all you Sopranos fans

didn't know that. but i also didn't think that danielle/beverly/slut was klassy enuf for the bada-bing.

[Cali]

Rehashing Your 'Coke Whore' Past for Fun and Profit


We tracked down Kevin Maher, the former FBI informant and ex-husband of Danielle Staub of Real Housewives of New Jersey, who he called a "coke whore." He's under a "contract" with Star for the exclusive to his story, so couldn't really talk. But he thinks Danielle's life is in danger.

"I've decided to give an exclusive to Star," Maher said when we called him. "That comes out Tuesday, so I can't talk until then. But yes, I was married to her. She did a lot of things that I think will put her life in danger. She was involved with the drug cartels in Cali and Medellín." That much is already clear from the promos Bravo has been running for Tuesday night's episode and Cop Without a Badge, the 1995 book about Maher's life as an informant.

Speaking of which, copies of the out-of-print title are currently going for upwards of $100 on Ebay, and Maher says negotiations are underway for a new paperback edition. And Maher's exclusive interview with Star comes out on Tuesday, the day of the next episode of Housewives. Everybody wins!

A representative for Bravo did not immediately return phone calls and e-mails asking for a comment as to why a television network would gleefully (and profitably!) air details of the woman's life under the pretense of a "reality" show when those details may piss off some of the violent people Staub used to run with. On the other hand, it's likely that all those details have already been aired, by Maher himself, in Cop Without a Badge (we haven't seen a full copy yet).

Bravo's bio on Staub says "she prides herself on being one of the first women in New Jersey (and 14th person in the country) to have a Black American Express Card and her history of celebrity hook-ups is one for the record books." She was also the millionth woman in New Jersey to be a stripper and get involved in the cocaine business. Other details of Staub's past are set to be revealed on the show next week.

Gawker - Rehashing Your 'Coke Whore' Past for Fun and Profit - Danielle staub

This woman just keeps getting more trashy and interesting by the day. Running with drug cartels? Wow.

[Novice]

^^ and any info given was probably given by her herself, she doesn't sound too bright...

Originally Posted by TheONe

My Girlfriend is a big fan of the "Real Housewives" series but she said that she caught the New Jersey one and said that the women are LUNATICS! She said that Jersey must be on another planet because no one can act like them..

My ex was from NJ, and no disrespect to the posters here but it was like living in the Godfather at times...

Here's the Gawker mugshot & article.... if she's had PS she needs a refund... coz she doesn't look any better now!

Jersey girl The Real Stripping Coke Fiend of New Jersey


By Richard Lawson,
6:41 PM on Wed May 27 2009,
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Last night, the promo for next week's Real Housewives of New Jersey said the secret to Danielle Staub's shady past could be found in an out-of-print book called Cop Without a Badge. Well, that's been tracked down and a "coke whore" named Beverly Merrill bears an awful close resemblance.
The book, by about felon-turned-informant Kevin Maher, describes Merrill as an 80's coke queen who stripped for a living, and may have been naked dancing it as late as 1992. And her stripper name was, well, Danielle. When they meet at a drug dealer's party in Miami, he describes her thus:

She was brunette. Long, perfectly shaped legs poked out of her leather hot pants just as provocatively as her braless breasts strained against her low-cut blouse." And no, she wasn't wearing any underwear. After she and Maher have "explosive sex," he thinks to himself, "This is a good person. She has no morals, but she's a good person. Beverly turns out to be a "coke whore." That's okay at first, because Maher likes coke too. But he really doesn't like her sleeping with other guys. So Maher confronts another one of her boyfriends at the Bennigan's in Saddle Brook, sticks a gun in his crotch, and makes him confess. By this time, Beverly Merrill is now dancing at various North Jersey establishments under the name Danielle. Maher, deciding he wants to have a kid but that Beverly isn't "mother material," eventually splits up with her. According to the epilogue, Maher last saw her in 1992 dancing at a club called Shakers in Carlstadt.

So, yeah, sigh. The book also says she was also apparently hanging out, Alpha Dog style, with a drug dealer who kidnapped a rich kid who owed him money.
A quick public records search shows that Danielle Staub indeed used to go by Beverly Merrill, as well as both Danielle Maher and Beverly Maher, as in the Maher who's in Cop Without a Badge. Or at least that someone with the same Social Security number went by all four names at dozens of addresses in New Jersey and Miami.
And via ONTD, someone has scanned two of the pages in the book that discuss Merrill. Read them and weep. No, really, weep.


Eventually the lady decided to shape up and marry rich and start a new life with her two young daughters. But of course then she got greedy and wanted on TV so the truth came out, as it inevitably would. Lessons learned, perhaps.

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[NicoleWasHere]

"it’s about to get really ugly."



Wtf, it's already ugly!!!