I haven’t been covering Brandi Glanville for a while, even though there is some interesting stuff happening with her. The slander case brought against Brandi by Joanna Krupa is heating up in some interesting ways, as it seems like the case is going forward against Brandi. Brandi famously spilled some tea – false tea, as it now seems – that Joanna Krupa had banged Mohamed Hadid when he was still married to Yolanda Hadid-Foster. Brandi also claimed that Mohamed had told her that Joanna is… um, particularly fishy. Well, everybody’s giving depositions and basically everything is going against Brandi as Mohamed Hadid denies all of those conversations.
Meanwhile, there’s more bad news for Brandi! Girl’s got tax drama:
Add Brandi Glanville’s name to the growing list of ‘Housewives’ with tax problems because Uncle Sam says she’s on the hook for $112k. The ousted ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star has been hit with a federal tax lien. The feds say she owes $29,396.35 from 2013, and $82,448.38 from 2014.
The timing is no coincidence. Brandi was promoted to a main cast member during season 3, the majority of which aired in 2013. On the bright side … it doesn’t look like Brandi’s as far in the hole as NeNe Leakes, who reportedly owes the IRS $824k, or Teresa and Joe Giudice, who are paying off a $261k tab to the state of NJ.
Granted, I’m not making Bravo money, but that seems like a lot of unpaid taxes. One thing I will say in her defense is that I think her finances are probably pretty complicated given child support and alimony payments from Eddie Cibrian, plus she probably has several side projects all with different revenue streams. But that’s why you hire a good accountant? Like, that’s a lot of money to owe the IRS.
Incidentally, I’m the person getting all of those fake-IRS spam-calls. They irritate the sh-t out of me because it’s always a man with an Indian accent telling me that I owe thousands of dollars to the IRS! I HATE YOU, SPAMMERS. The best spam call I ever got was last week though – someone with an Indian accent (I think it’s my Indian name that attracts them) called me and claimed that he was “immigration police” and that they had an open file on me and when did I come to this country? I replied, “I was born here.” He hung up on me.
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My thirteen year old daughter got one of those tax calls. I told her she was grounded for not paying taxes and she freaked out. I wish I had recorded it.
Lmao Mandy!!! I love those prankster parent videos
Brandi is going to act like such a victim over this IRS stuff. Nothing is ever her fault and she takes no accountability.
And I’m glad the people she spread false rumors about are not backing down. She should be humiliated to have to go to court for acting like a 13 year old gossip-monger, and for saying such rude and crude personal things. But she won’t be humiliated because she has zero shame.
I think Brandi told a half truth. I believe Lisa Vanderpump told Brandi gossip about Krupa and Hadid when they were still friends and never expected that Brandi would repeat it on TV. Perhaps not the odor part, but certainly the affair. Lisa will never tell the truth though.
I agree Kai. I think back when Lisa and Brandi were friends and had an alliance on the show, Lisa spilled the tea to Brandi. But she threw Brandi under the bus when Brandi made that gossip public on the show. I think it was a fundamental difference of social classes. Lisa is the upper class smile and stab you in the back, Brandi is the brawling in the trailer park class.
If Brandi had kept her mouth shut and played the game as Lisa’s lap dog, Brandi would be wealthier and better connected in L.A. now. Instead she remained herself, a loudmouth, trashy, instigator and Lisa dropped her.
I agree thinking Lisa spilled this secret to Brandi when they were still pals.
I think Lisa & Hadid are lying and they can afford better attorneys.
I hope Brandi learned a hard lesson from this mess and finally gets her act together and not give her ex husband & that awful women he married more ammunition to use against her.
Lisa values Hadid’s friendship WAY too much to ever confirm this publicly.
She and Lisa were already falling out when Brandi opened her yap. I think yolonda said something–true or not–about Joanna and Mohammad. Brandi can never keep a confidence but she and yo haceby fallen out–yet–so I don’t think she will admit it. Lisa would never spill Mohammad’s secrets–especially to a bigmouth loose cannon like Brandi. That friendship goes back over 20 years.
Those tax scammers should be reported to the IRS. There is a link on the IRS website to report them and they will investigate.
I work with the treasury and the website to report is https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/. They take it pretty seriously and have been cracking down on these cases, even the ones where the scammers are not in the US.
Thank you!
Thanks for the info. I don’t answer numbers that i don’t know. I get the calls saying I’m being sued by the IRS.
There is no excuse for getting behind on your taxes. You can’t procrastinate and spend like it’s all yours. Brandi and every other person in this country knows they have tax obligations. Avoiding it is criminal. No sympathy from me, in fact, this only confirms my long stance that this girl is a scam artist who plays the suffering damsel in distress. A damsel who has made a ton of money the past decade and hasn’t put anything away for her kids’ education. If she’s not filing her taxes, she sure as heck isn’t saving anything for her or her children’s future. She’s trying to live large and will be sorely sorry when these gigs dry up and she didn’t prepare for it.
This latest ‘problem’ does not surprise me. She will probably claim to have known nothing about taxes, because her ex (or his mommy) took care of all the money and bills.
Innocent spouse defense never works in tax court.
Joanna Krupa has no shame. Yes, it’s embarrassing to have someone say you have smelly nether regions… but now I will ALWAYS associate Krupa with this because she decided to sue. Theory: I’ve always thought this was her way of punishing Bravo (and Brandi) when they didn’t make her a Beverly Hills castmember after Miami went under.
Yeah, we already know Brandi is icky, but that’s already been covered to death.
Joanna is not at all innocent in this.
Right?! Didn’t she provoke Brandi multiple times and said something about Eddie cheating on her?
Joanna is pretty awful too. Brandi just has a bigger platform.
@Jess – Yes she did. While Brandi was on WWHL Joanna called into the show and announced…”No wonder her husband left her”.
She has a case of chicken cutlet cheek implants, or something. Such a pretty girl and now this is the permanent by choice face. I simply will never, ever understand doing this to your face. How can they look and say, YEP, total improvement?
I hate judging looks, so this isn’t that. It’s the trend of doing this, whatever procedures done, that result in cutlet cheekbones and a jokeresque smile.
Regarding taxes… It’s not that hard. Hire an accountant and let them figure it out, then pay what they say and sign where they say. Not very difficult at all, no excuse really, especially not when you have income like she does. To me it seems more greedy/wanting a free pass more than anything, wh in aeema typical of her MO.
Brandi had stated in the past that while married to EC they lived far above their means. I don’t think she is greedy but rather not very bright.
Ignorance/stupidity is not a defense. Brandi doesn’t get to slide on her taxes because “her situation is complicated” or she “isn’t that bright” or she’s used to “living above her means.” Children as early as third grade are taught that Americans have tax obligations. I cannot-can NEVER-understand the comments supporting this vile woman.
My husband loves messing with the IRS scammers (because men never grow up amirite) and one time he annoyed the guys so much that the guy told my husband to stand in front of a mirror and “f#%* himself”.
I died.
About the taxes, sometimes it’s not that you haven’t paid taxes, it’s that the IRS goes back and disallows credits, exemptions, write offs, etc. So I’ve heard.
I can confirm this. I know a business owner this happened to – the accountant made some mistakes, and when one problem got flagged, it triggered an audit, more problems were found, and the owner owed thousands overnight. It was awful, but not deliberate. Unfortunately, the only moral in the owner’s story was don’t trust your accountant.
Sorry there is no excuse for being that behind in your taxes, that is criminal get a taxes attorney and an accountant.
This wasn’t a case where she messed up in TurboTax and owes the government a couple hundred for checking the wrong box this is over $100k. She didn’t report and it’s not hard to pay your taxes! It’s just not.
God she is just terrible.
Cue Leann Rimes posing in a photo shoot with her Bff her tax accountant, on the beach in one of Brandi’s old bikinis.
The reason those amounts sound high is likely (1) because the reality stars’ annual income puts them in a higher bracket and (2) the penalties and interest rapidly accrue on amount owed.
It amazes me what some people don’t understand about taxes and penalties. I read about a once popular 1980s TV star who allegedly had a 10 million (back taxes) lien on a home he sold a few years ago.
I got a call stating they were from the IRS and if I didn’t pay the money owed, they were going to send the police to arrest me…..that was 3 months ago😆😆😆
How I wish the ‘do not call registry’ really eliminated such calls.
This weekend at 8 AM, I politely informed a caller regarding my ‘Windows system’ that we were on the registry and to remove the number. Less than two hours later, someone else (same accent – same sales pitch) called and I interrupted him to ask for the phone number where I could immediately call back — just to be sure it was legitimate. I heard a click (disconnect) and no calls since then.
Re IRS Spammers. I’m never home when they call so we get a voicemail. I wish they called me when they do because I will say well I work for the IRS and that’s not the correct procedure for collections. I don’t work for them but I will get a kick out of making those bastards wet their pants!