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Bethenny Frankel is clapping again at Carole Radziwill after her former good friend and Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis castmate steered former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was behind the notorious photograph of Tom D’Agostino Jr. kissing one other lady whereas engaged to Luann de Lesseps.
Years after Bethenny debuted the photograph throughout a season eight forged journey to Miami, Carole appeared on Heather McDonald‘s podcast, the place she steered it was Michael, a good friend of Bethenny’s late-fiancé, Dennis Shields, who forwarded the picture of Tom to the Skinnygirl mogul.
“We have been all suspicious. … On the time, I used to be like, ‘There’s simply no means Bethenny occurred to have a good friend — she doesn’t have a whole lot of mates — and one simply occurred to be at The Regency, like, on a random Tuesday night time, and Tom would stroll in with an ex-girlfriend and kiss on the bar,’” Carole mentioned on the August 10 episode of Juicy Scoop, by way of Us Weekly. “It simply appears so implausible and unbelievable. But it surely’s, like, a storyline. And there’s a photograph.”
Trying again, Carole mentioned Bethenny informed her Luann and Tom’s engagement was “pretend” — however that she couldn’t share why till the RHONY journey.
“A good friend of hers knew the lady and was informed that they nonetheless sort of see one another and hook up and on and on and on,” Carole defined. “So she mentioned, ‘Subsequent time that, you recognize, that it’s gonna occur, let me know.’ So she was informed that Tom was gonna be there on that Tuesday night time at 10 o’clock with the ex-girlfriend they usually have been gonna [do] no matter. … I might by no means determine the piece of, like, who took the photograph.”
Then, months in the past, Carole had dinner with a good friend, who invited Michael to their outing.
“He’s like, ‘I do know you.’ and I’m like, ‘You don’t know me.’ He goes, ‘I do know you. I met you 10 years in the past with Aviva Drescher. … I do know all these effing Housewives.’ … He will get Harry Dubin on the telephone,” Carole recalled. “Then we began speaking about Tom or the marriage. And he’s like, ‘Oh, please. … After all, I do know Tom, who do you suppose took the image?’ And I used to be like, ‘Wait, what do you say?’ And he goes, ‘Who do you suppose took the image [at] The Regency?’ Michael Cohen!”
“He mentioned, ‘I took the image.’ … [He said] Tom finally knew that Michael Cohen had taken the photograph that ended up being forwarded to Bethenny and ended up being on the present,” she continued, including “allegedly” to the account. “That is what he was telling me. … I assumed, truly, manufacturing had set one thing up, however in one million years, I’d not have thought that Michael Cohen was gonna sit down at dinner and, like, inform this entire story about how he took the image.”
As RHONY followers will recall, Bethenny was accused of a “arrange” earlier than Luann finally selected to forgive her then-fiancé, who she married on New 12 months’s Eve 2016 — earlier than splitting from seven months later.
Whereas Carole claimed it was Michael who took the photograph of Tom, Bethenny mentioned in any other case in a clip shared to her TikTok account.
“Solely as a result of I like you and since a lot of you’ve requested me within the feedback will I touch upon one thing so insignificant and so silly, and it’s that no, Michael Cohen didn’t take the photograph on the Regency of Tom,” she said. “The girl who did take the photograph on the Regency is texting me proper now on this very telephone, simply despatched me our authentic textual content and the photograph, and it was the photograph, and beneath it, it mentioned, ‘Possibly it’s best to make totally different New 12 months’s Eve plans.’”
“Individuals mustn’t stop their day jobs, and you could belief and verify your selections as a result of it’s harmful to hear to simply anyone spew their mouth off about one thing they know nothing about,” she added.
The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis season 14 airs Sundays at 9/8c on Bravo.
