“Real Housewives of New York” star Bethenny Frankel skipped filming the reality show on Friday night, after an alleged incident involving her ex-husband, Jason Hoppy, Page Six has learned.
Hoppy was charged with harassing and stalking Frankel after he allegedly sent a series of abusive emails and turned up at their daughter’s Manhattan school on Friday. An NYPD spokeswoman told Page Six on Tuesday that Hoppy approached Frankel and a friend at the school around 8:15 a.m. and “tried to provoke a fight. He said, ‘I will destroy you, you can get all the lawyers you want, you’ve been warned.’” (Hoppy’s attorney told us he “intends to vigorously fight these false charges.”)
Spies have further told Page Six that after the alleged incident, a distraught Frankel skipped filming her show Friday night.
A source told us that the Bravo show’s cameras were rolling when the “Real Housewives” cast attended a Dressed to Kilt charity fashion show. “All the other ‘Housewives’ were there … Bethenny was a no-show,” a spy said. The source added, “When Carole Radziwill [Frankel’s best friend on the show] is there and the cameras are rolling, you know Bethenny is expected — so she just didn’t show.”
A source close to the star told us that Frankel did not attend because of Friday’s earlier drama, but that she did then go on a trip with the cast to the Killington Ski Resort in Vermont.
At the Dressed to Kilt event, Dorinda Medley and Sonja Morgan walked in the show with castmates including Radziwill, Luann de Lesseps and Tinsley Mortimer in the front row. Spies said Medley was seen in a lovers’ spat with her boyfriend John Mahdessian before the show.
“She was taking a photo on the red carpet with Sean Perry,” the CEO of Usquaebach, which sponsored the event, a witness said. “Dorinda put her hand in her boyfriend John’s face to get him out of the shot,” but “John mistook that for her trying to shoo him away and he did just that … storming out of the High Line Hotel.” But later, “he was spotted front row alongside Luann, Tinsley and Carole.”
Also at the show to benefit the Navy SEAL Foundation were NFL star Brandon Marshall, WPLJ radio host Jayde Donovan and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle’s wife, Tara.
A rep for Frankel had no comment and a Bravo rep did not immediately get back to us.
