The ex-husband of ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star Danielle Staub has sued Simon & Schuster for publishing in Staub’s memoir what he says are untrue details of his alleged beatings of his ex-wife. -db
The Star-Ledger
December 6, 2010
By Vicki Hyman
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Danielle Staub (or shall we say former RHONJ star?) and her (first) ex-husband Kevin Maher settled a defamation lawsuit he filed over her claims that he used to abuse her, but now Maher has filed another lawsuit against the publisher of Staub’s memoir, “The Naked Truth.”
The complaint, filed in California, where Maher lives, says that Simon & Schuster and Staub’s co-author, Steven Prigge, printed more details of Maher’s alleged attacks on his then-wife (“He would come on like a crazed animal and exhaust himself by beating the hell out of me”) and that Maher went to jail for it, which Maher denies. Maher is seeking $10 million for damage to his reputation and “shame, mortification, mental anguish, humiliation, and nervous pain and suffering.”
His settlement with Staub (a former Wayne resident who reportedly now makes her home in Edgewater) is confidential.
A Simon & Schuster spokesman said he hadn’t seen the complaint, but “we plan on vigorously defending this lawsuit.”
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