S07.E02: The Buddha Bentley Birthday

[queenjen]

Wow. So Erika and Tom are in a different bracket then, the one that includes Dorit and PK and  Nene and Greg (and also Toyah and Dr Eugene from Married to Medicine). TEN million is on a whole nother level though, that's for damn sure. When I opened the link, though, the first thing I thought was WHO IS THAT?

 

 

[AndySmith]

I don't know if that puts them in a higher bracket than some of the others...just that they need to pay their taxes. 

[chick binewski]

On 12/18/2016 at 9:29 PM, zoeysmom said:

I believe the house they live in was HH before Rinna.  They are driving $100,000, cars, they don't seem to want for anything, they vacation overseas, he has a vacation home in Canada.  I always get the impression he is pretty happy, she seems driven, as if she wants more and more.  He seems to be working a lot these days.

I think Rinna's comment regarding her Depends commercial ("it really saved our bacon") must have stuck with me. She & her husband have collectively been working in Hollywood for 50 years and they need to bail themselves out with a diaper commercial? IDK.   

On 12/19/2016 at 10:55 AM, HunterHunted said:

I think you're thinking of SUR and season 2, which was technically a re-opening because SUR had been open for 2 or 3 years before RHOBH.

Thanks for this comment because I am always unclear when they start talking about VB/Sur timelines. (And obvi it's important culinary history we want to represent properly).

[chick binewski]

14 hours ago, queenjen said:

Whatever is going on, it seems to involve Erika catering to certain needs and/or lifestyle that Tom is rich and powerful enough to pursue with how many fcks? I'm sure his family and colleagues must have been horrified at him marrying a cocktail waitress with a 20 something year old son, 40 plus years his junior. But Tom can obviously live life exactly the way Tom wants to live life. Erika is submissive with him whenever they're together under the guise of extending him respect. She's also overgushy about how much she adores him and how much he fulfils her etc etc. He's spent a fortune financing Erika Jayne because that's some major money going out in glam squad salaries and backup dancers and choreographers. She's paying for it somehow.

Yeah, the whole relationship needs more attention paid if Erika is going to become remotely interesting. I might be sensitive to their particular dynamic (it drives me nuts when friends are pretty much entirely different people around their spouses) but despite her "multiple personalities" Erika's attitude around Tom seems to be just shy of pissed off. Girlfriend had to be fixated on a particular kind of success if she left her son back east to ...go west and serve drinks. 

Regarding the tax situation, I'm guessing here but maybe reporting Tom's settlement earnings within the proper year/date rage screwed them up? IDK, I rarely have to worry about the proceeds from a $300 million windfall.

That pic of Erika - well, we know a chunk of Tom's cash went to serious plastic surgery. And black eyeliner.

[zoeysmom]

2 hours ago, chick binewski said:

I think Rinna's comment regarding her Depends commercial ("it really saved our bacon") must have stuck with me. She & her husband have collectively been working in Hollywood for 50 years and they need to bail themselves out with a diaper commercial? IDK.   

Thanks for this comment because I am always unclear when they start talking about VB/Sur timelines. (And obvi it's important culinary history we want to represent properly).

I think anytime you make a million dollars and your two stores have closed down it is a windfall.  HH always seems to be working. . . some years more than others. 

1 hour ago, chick binewski said:

Yeah, the whole relationship needs more attention paid if Erika is going to become remotely interesting. I might be sensitive to their particular dynamic (it drives me nuts when friends are pretty much entirely different people around their spouses) but despite her "multiple personalities" Erika's attitude around Tom seems to be just shy of pissed off. Girlfriend had to be fixated on a particular kind of success if she left her son back east to ...go west and serve drinks. 

Regarding the tax situation, I'm guessing here but maybe reporting Tom's settlement earnings within the proper year/date rage screwed them up? IDK, I rarely have to worry about the proceeds from a $300 million windfall.

That pic of Erika - well, we know a chunk of Tom's cash went to serious plastic surgery. And black eyeliner.

First rule of big settlements. . . pay your taxes.  They had liens and had to sell off a major property.  My guess is Tom and Erika live life large and he will work until he drops. 

For all the crap Dorit gets for household help, I find providing for your kids far more real than having a fricking glam squad who does your make up every day.  All the while owing the IRS $10 million bucks. 

[princelina]

21 hours ago, WireWrap said:

 Also add in that Yolanda/David were not living together during filming last season and rumor has it that they hadn't lived together for a few years!

Wow - so that would mean all the "my love" crap and roast chicken on the hillside and photo books of Yo were just big fakes!  Haha

[WireWrap]

5 minutes ago, princelina said:

Wow - so that would mean all the "my love" crap and roast chicken on the hillside and photo books of Yo were just big fakes!  Haha

Pretty much! LOL