Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope that you're having a good week. There has been a lot going on in the Bravo universe.

I feel like we are firing at all cylinders. We start out Sundays with Salt Lake City. Monday is

summer house. Tuesday is Jersey. Wednesday is O.C. And Thursday is Miami. I mean, it's just like nonstop. I am

finally caught up on the Real Housewives of Miami and I will start covering it next week.

And then two weeks from now, I'm going to do a bit of a deep dive into my thoughts,

um, binging the first three seasons and then also thoughts on season four. So,

yeah, I am obsessed, just like everyone else. It just took me a little bit longer to get there. But I'm glad that I was

able to watch the first few seasons because it did give me some context to the show that I feel

is helping me understand some of the drama between the women now on season four.

And speaking of drama, there has been a lot going down with regards to Erica Jane

from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Earlier this week, her case was dismissed from a court in

Illinois, but Jay Adelson, who is the attorney that has been going after her and says that he thinks he can

prove that she knew about Tom Gerardy's alleged Ponzi scheme, he is refiling in California.

And so she is definitely not off the hook, despite whatever headlines you may be reading.

You also probably saw in the headlines that she was ordered by a judge to hand over

diamond earrings that are worth $1.4 million.

Oh my gosh.

It's hard for me to fathom jewelry being that expensive.

But also, now they have proof that these earrings were paid for from an account that was client money. So Tom Durardi wrote a check

to a jeweler from an account that he was not supposed to be touching. And because of that,

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