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Heather Gay Sounds Off connected RHOSLC's Future Without Jen Shah
Jen Shah's destiny has been revealed.
After pleading guilty to national charges of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and wealth laundering successful July 2022, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star was sentenced to 78 months successful prison—or six and a fractional year—in Federal Court successful Manhattan connected Jan. 6, NBC News confirmed.
The justice imposed nary monetary good connected Jen. After her release, she'll beryllium on supervised merchandise for 5 years.
The 49-year-old and her former assistant Stuart Smith were arrested successful March 2021 on ligament fraud and wealth laundering charges successful transportation with a nationwide telemarketing scheme.
Though helium primitively claimed innocence, Stuart changed his plea to blameworthy successful November 2021. (He is expected to beryllium sentenced in March.) Jen aboriginal did the same connected July 11, conscionable a week earlier her lawsuit was acceptable to spell to trial.
RHOSLC enforcement shaper Andy Cohen weighed successful connected the star's blameworthy plea in July, stating connected his Sirius XM bid Radio Andy, "When you accidental you're blameworthy of something, it possibly means you're guilty."
He besides addressed Jen's lack from BravoCon 2022 during a sheet astatine the normal in October. "She plead guilty. I deliberation that was benignant of, unfortunately, the extremity of, you know, the engagement there," helium explained, adding that helium has "a batch of questions for her."
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Bravo has yet to denote whether Jen's sentencing volition impact her aboriginal relation connected RHOSLC, which she has been portion of since its premiere in 2020. And the thought of Jen not returning for the show's 4th play is thing co-star Heather Gay antecedently told E! News is the "smallest thing, blip connected her radar close now."
"I'm trying not to fto it unreality my thoughts either," Heather added. "I'm conscionable reasoning of her taking accountability, getting this started and implicit with truthful that she tin rebuild her life."
For now, Jen will not appear alongside co-stars Lisa Barlow, Meredith Marks and Whitney Rose—as good arsenic bid friends Angie Harrington, Angie Katsanevas and Danna Bui-Negrete—on the show's upcoming season 3 reunion, which taped successful November.
Though she claimed she was originally invited to attend, the quality came with a catch: She said she would beryllium expected to sermon her ineligible issues.
"That anticipation has nary respect for maine oregon my family's well-being," Jen wrote successful a Dec. 16 Instagram post. "So nether ineligible advice, I volition not beryllium attending the reunion. I request to absorption connected the astir important happening successful my life—my family."
Last month, Meredith gave E! News caller penetration into however Jen was doing in the last days earlier her sentencing. "Jen is okay," she stated. "It's a lot, truthful anyone successful her shoes would beryllium struggling with a batch of antithetic things. She evidently has a batch of variables being thrown astatine her good beyond her sentencing."
Meredith went connected to say she believed that Jen wasn't fixed the due accidental to support herself amid her ineligible drama. "I deliberation that it's been a precise trying clip due to the fact that to spell done this and consciousness similar you don't person a dependable connected apical of everything other that she's facing, it's overwhelming," the world star noted. "She conscionable tries to absorption connected the time to time arsenic champion she can."
(E! and Bravo are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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