On Nov. But Salahi didn't 'wow' the staff of Gomez's salon: after the marathon session, she left no tip, Gomez said. In fact, Gomez says the Salahis still owe the salon thousands of dollars for services from their wedding day, an extravagant event that featured 2, guests and 15 photographers, according to a video and details the couple posted online.
The Salahis have carefully recorded all of their brushes with celebrity over the years on their Facebook page. A quick glimpse of their online photo collection shows them posing with actors, musicians, royalty, and even a "Dancing with the Stars" winner. In several photos, Michaele Salahi calls herself a model, posing with alumni at a Washington Redskins cheerleader event.
By many accounts, the Salahis are textbook "Facebraggers" — people who document their every move on Facebook — pointing out the fact that their appearance at the state dinner was not the first time they met President Obama.
In one picture, the couple stands alongside Obama and members of the Black Eyed Peas. In another, the couple is sitting in the president's private inauguration day viewing booth with the caption: "exactly where President Obama and the First Lady were seated. Upon their arrival at the state dinner, the couple was being filmed by a reality-TV crew, but the network says the Salahis told producers they had an invitation.
She says reality TV is not to blame for the Salahi's behavior, but the misguided desire of certain individuals to do anything in the quest for celebrity.
I think if you do something obnoxious by behaving badly and breaching White House security to be on a show, I think that is over the top and definitely not acceptable. Public backlash against the Salahis has appeared online and on the couple's Facebook page, with some messages calling for jail time and worse.
We'll notify you here with news about. The outcome is not clear from a Virginia courts Web site. Oasis Winery filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February, according to U. Bankruptcy Court records in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Tareq Salahi is listed as company president in the filing. The Chapter 7 filing, under which a debtor's assets are sold to pay creditors, followed an apparent effort to save the winery earlier. The business had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December , with Salahi's mother, Corinne, listing herself as president.
A Chapter 11 bankruptcy is referred to as a "reorganization" bankruptcy, according to the federal judiciary's Web site. More than guests, including Cabinet members, diplomats and Hollywood celebrities, attended the dinner. If they lied to federal agents in order to get into the White House dinner, that is a federal crime, said Fran Townsend , CNN national security contributor. The agents tasked with protecting the president "did not follow proper procedures," Secret Service agent Edwin Donovan said in a statement, but said the gatecrashers went through metal detectors "and other levels of security.
In a statement Thursday, Bravo said, "Michaele Salahi is under consideration as a cast member, as such [series producer] Half Yard Productions were filming the Salahis on that day. Half Yard was only aware that per the Salahis they had been invited [to the state dinner] as guests. The couple also appears to have posted pictures on Facebook purportedly showing them gaining access to high profile events during inauguration week, according to The Washington Post's Reliable Sources gossip column.
Pictures on the couple's joint Facebook account appear to show them in the first family's glass-enclosed viewing area after a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, according to the Post. Other pictures purportedly show them mingling with celebrities during inauguration weekend, including talk show host Oprah Winfrey at the Kennedy Center, according to the Post.
The Salahis' only crime is incompetence. Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer Feature. Watch an AP report about a lawmaker's threat to subpeona the Salahis to testify Book 'em: The humor-lite Secret Service will certainly push for criminal charges against the Salahis, says Randy James in Time , and "it would be hard to blame them, given the circumstances.
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