In the final edit of the season 4 finale of RHONJ, Teresa and Kim D will get the blame for Angelo being at the fashion show. Angelo has several conversations with female guests and a conversation with producers that gets edited into one conversation that implicates Teresa and Kim D in setting up Melissa. The truth is, Angelo was just trying to impress these other guests (by saying) that he was part of the show and had filmed with Teresa earlier in the day. They (the producers) got lucky: he outright lies to impress a woman and says to her that he is a vital part of the finale and was asked to be there by the producers; and that audio track is what is heavily edited and used to incriminate Teresa. Everyone who had ever worked with Melissa happened to be there and so did past friends, old roommates, the list went on and on. Everyone knew she was a dancer and it was no big deal — all of this was edited out. – Former RHONJ Post Production Supervisor, September 17, 2012
Chris Kontos, owner of Lookers Gentlemen’s Club in Elizabeth, NJ, where Melissa Gorga worked in 2003, is hoping a network picks up on the pilot, “Real Barmaids of New Jersey”.
The pilot is being shot at Chris Michael’s Steahkouse, Lounge and Sports Bar in Woodbridge, which Kontos opened six years ago.
“The concept of ‘Real Barmaids of New Jersey’ is five mid-to-late-30s bartenders, all super good-looking, who have been doing this for many years and now are trapped in this world, trying to get out. But the money is too good, and due to life circumstances, they can’t get out, even though they would like to.”
According to an article by Asbury Park Press on February 6, 2013 (see below), some of the barmaids featured in the pilot also worked for the Kontos family at its two go-go bars, Breathless The Men’s Club in Rahway and Lookers. The go-go bars would be among the locations should one of several interested networks pick the show up.
Photos from Lookers’ Facebook Page:
In November 2011, when rumors that Melissa was a “dancer” surfaced, she released ‘payroll’ registers which listed her as a “bar servant” at Lookers during the entire 2003 calendar year. In December 2011, Melissa’s lawyer obtained a “sworn affidavit” from Chris Kontos that stated she “worked solely in the capacity as a bartender” at Lookers. Melissa continues to deny she was ever a ‘dancer’.
“They are not pay stubs. I worked long enough in corporate accounting to know what I’m looking at. They are a print out of her employee pay history showing the check detail that goes along with her pay stubs from that calendar year. Basically, this information is exported from an employee’s pay history into a report that can be either saved to a file or printed. But if you are crafty or desperate enough, it can also be easily replicated in an Excel spreadsheet. Meaning, this could be a check detail report but it also could still just be a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper.” [Cara, January 9, 2012, AllAboutTRH.com]
“The ‘affidavit’ from Chris Kontos is about as kosher as Melissa’s ‘pay stubs’. Kontos is not the most trustworthy character either. In 2007, he was charged with breach of contract and fraud (trying to skip out on $250,000 in the purchase of the restaurant that he names himself the owner of ).” [Cara, January 9, 2012, AllAboutTRH.com]
“So the former Lookers employee is doing promotion for the ex-manager of Lookers Chris Kontos. The same man who signed a sworn affidavit corroborating those claims that she was not a dancer. By the way when the former Lookers DANCER tried to sue Angelo he supplied PROOF that she did dance and Ms Lookers dropped her lawsuit.” [old NJ girl, May 14, 2012, AllAboutTRH.com]
“I heard a rumour MeHo did an appearance at Chris Michaels’ bar the other night. This bar is owned by none other than her former employer at Lookers Chris Kontos who also happened to supply her with those “pay slips” to prove she was a bar girl when all the stripper rumours surfaced. I wonder why she wasn’t paid for her appearance at Chris Michael’s bar? Anyone? Anyone? Okay, I’ll tell you. She made a deal with Chris if he gave her those pay slips then she would make free appearances at any bars he owns. Win win for him because it gives his bars free advertising and exposure and she can continue to live her lie of a life. [MeHo Gorga, May 14, 2012, AllAboutTRH.com]
That is no joke to the producers of the latest reality TV show to take aim at Middle America’s fascination with brash New Joisey. But creators Steve Stanulis and Nick Papandrea Jr. said they hope “Real Barmaids of New Jersey” also will be funny.
The pilot is being shot all week at Chris Michael’s Steakhouse, Lounge and Sports Bar in Woodbridge.
The nutty antics of the five main “characters” are expected to attract the audience of “Jersey Shore,” which recently ended its run on MTV. “Real Barmaids” would be the sixth recent Jersey-based reality series. Others include “Cake Boss,” “Jersey Couture,” “The Real of Housewives of New Jersey,” “Jersey Shore” spinoff “Snooki and JWOWW,” and “Jerseylicious,” which also is shot in Central Jersey at a Green Brook hair salon.
“The concept of ‘Real Barmaids of New Jersey’ is five mid-to-late-30s bartenders, all super good-looking, who have been doing this for many years and now are trapped in this world, trying to get out. But the money is too good, and due to life circumstances, they can’t get out, even though they would like to,” Stanulis explained. “They’re all nutty as the day is long. They’re good-looking ladies who still party like they’re 19 years old, still getting into fights with other groups of chicks and themselves on a daily basis. Some don’t like each other, so there’s a lot of infighting, which makes for interesting reality TV.”
All hot-blooded Latinas, Italian-Americans or both, the barmaids are:
• Gina Marie Rabo, 37, of Clark.
• Carmen Guerrero, 39, of Carteret.
• Sandra Bolanos, 40, of Linden.
• Milli Rylez, 35, of Perth Amboy.
• Tina Schiro, 36, of Union.
Rabo’s father’s family hails from Italy, and her mother is from Spain, she said.
“My mother’s name is Juanita,” she said, “and my father is Joey.”
They said they all have dreams that they hope “Real Barmaids” helps make come true.
Rabo said she would like to own her own bar. A native of the Dominican Republic, Guerrero works part time as a massage therapist and said she would like to build a bigger practice. A native Colombian, Bolanos said she would like to be a full-time makeup artist. Rylez, from Peru, is a personal trainer whose clients include Miss New Jersey Libell Duran, a Keasbey resident readying for the Miss USA pageant in June. Mainly of Sicilian descent, Schiro recently graduated from nursing school and plans to pursue a career in that field while continuing to write promotional material for publicity clients.
“I watch a lot of reality shows, and I saw the opportunities and the doors that open,” Bolanos said. “I’m the type of person who is very ambitious.”
Valentino Kontos, co-owner of Chris Michael’s with his father, Chris, and brother, Michael, said he too hopes the show’s exposure pays off.
That has been the case for Hoboken’s Carlo’s Bake Shop after “Cake Boss,” Gatsby Salon after “Jerseylicious” and the Diane and Co. bridal shop in Freehold after “Jersey Couture,” he said.
“We want people to see what Chris Michael’s is all about,” Kontos said.
Both Stanulis and Papandrea hail from Staten Island and became friends with Rabo and Bolanos while working at Chris Michael’s. All but Rylez also have tended bar there since the Kontos family opened the nightspot six years ago.
Some of the barmaids also have worked for the family at its two go-go bars, Breathless in Rahway and Lookers in Elizabeth. The go-go bars would be among the locations should one of several interested networks pick the show up, the barmaids said.
“This industry has been so amazing, so good to us, but back in the day, where we used to make a grand or two a week, now we’re lucky if we make $500 a week,” Rabo said. “The money is very easy. The hustle is very easy, but it’s very hard to get out of it, because it’s such quick money. This show is basically the story of our struggle to get out of the hustle and pursue our dreams, our careers, our relationships and personal lives.”
Director Stanulis is a former New York police officer who has turned retirement into a successful stage and screen career in front of and behind the camera. Executive producer Papandrea is a real estate agent who is used to “putting deals together.”
After a year and a half of hearing that the barmaids’ lives would make a great reality TV show, Stanulis and Papandrea put all five women in a room together to see what would happen.
“It was dynamic,” Stanulis said.
“The reason they can’t get out of this bartending scene is because they love the money, they love the nightlife, and they enjoy all the excitement, the going out, the guys’ attention. People want to see that, especially with ‘Jersey Shore’ gone,” Papandrea added.
“That’s what makes it so interesting,” Stanulis continued. “At the end of the night, if one gets more attention than the other, they want to go at it with each other. They’re 38 going on 19.”
Source Says Melissa Is a Cheater and Joe Gorga Allegedly Hit Her Because of It, and Melissa Hooked Up with a Former Boyfriend in 2009 While Married to Joe
Fame-Whorgas received an e-mail from a source (who requested to remain anonymous) about Melissa and her exploits before marrying Joe Gorga. Here it is, unedited, except for the last name of someone whose full name has not yet been revealed in the blogs:
1. Bulldog’s real name is Brian [last name edited out], who is her ex boyfriend & she met with him in Sushi Lounge parking lot [in 2009]. [The source told me later that their friends who were with them at the Lounge witnessed them hooking up in the car... the car was rockin'!]
2. Joe caught her cheating on the boardwalk when they were dating/living together & allegedly punched her in the face & told her to get her shit out of his house. She then went back crying about being homeless so he took her back.
Bravo May Be Setting Up Teresa Giudice Again — This Time She Will Be Shown Trying to Expose Melissa Gorga and Albert Manzo as Cheaters
Chris Stark’s source told her something similar about Melissa cheating plus some other disturbing news about season 5 of RHONJ. Note that the Posche Fashion Show was taped on December 3, 2012, and the only Housewife in attendance was Teresa, along with her friends (and, of course, Kim D), which is a big red flag!
#rhoNJ Penny Drosso Karagiorgis is @PDKhair married to Johnny Karagiorgis who is @JohnnyTheGrk They owned the salon Kim D. and TRE filmed @S4
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
#rhonj new story arc is Kim @KimDPosche trying to expose Albert Manzo of cheating and Melissa cheating with BullDog
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
BullDog aka “Butchy” … Mel lived with him for 2 years and cheated on Joe a few years ago with him
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@Teresa_Giudice is being tricked into believing that Kim, Penny, and @Bravotv is HELPING TRE,but Bravo is setting TRE up again for a huge FALL
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@KimDPosche is being PAID to expose Caroline and Mel with the help of Penny —>@PDKhair per Todd in production.BUT edit will make TRE bad AGAIN
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
#rhoNJ My sources say Penny is still actively seeking to be a paid FRIEND of Housewives – “FOT” friend of Teresa. Enemy of Melissa.
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
KIM hosted another event last night and a lunch this Thursday and a girls night out on Saturday. #rhonj filming schedule
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@TheLicks Happened last night = my friend over heard/saw KIM plotting……..Kim talks loud and is a nasty drinker…TRE’s face turned SOUR
7h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
#rhonj Has been filming over a month now…and the Posche Fashion Show took place on Dec 3 at The Bottagra in Hawthorne NJ.
6h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@SoFluffy2 WHO FILMED #rhonj IN NJ: Noelle Brescia, TRE/Juicy, KIM, Penny, Jennifer, Priscilla DeStasio. They are the “FOT” friends of Teresa
14h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@BluEyedMami why? They are getting the victim and benevolent edit.TRE is getting the hateful, evil, revengeful edit… #rhonj
14h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
@PattiPMS57 @Teresa_Giudice @flygirljennifer not during s5… they added a ton of friends to faze out…the paid full time RH
2:07 AM – 5 Dec 12
2h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
#rhoNJ Breaking NEWS on Melisa Gorga cheating on Joey Gorga. http://tl.gd/k8de6e
Brian B. aka Butchy aka BullDog is who Melissa lived with before Joe. Remember Joey said Mel had females roommates Mel needed to get away from? It was Butchy who was training to be a Mixed Martial Arts Fighter… Melissa hooked back up with Butchy several times after her marriage to Joey, even being caught giving Butchy a blow job in his car in a parking lot. Rumor has it he is the father of Joe and Mel son….I am sure it’s an unfounded rumor.
Robert Polumbo, who owned the salon before Penny, bought Melissa her breast implants. Melissa compensated Robert with sex. Especially at his shore house. Sex and cocaine was their thing.
3h chris stark chris stark @stark3923
#rhoNJ **FACTS** Dear Teresa Giudice PLEASE stop trusting Kim DePaola @KimDPosche is NOT your true honest friend. http://tl.gd/k84los
Kim is using you to hurt you…her sole purpose is another “bring TRE down story arc”.
TRE, your story line this season is about your “relentlessness” in trying to destroy Melisa Gorga out of spite and YOU TRYING to destroy Caroline Manzo by exposing Albert as a cheater.
Kim told Bravo she can “deliver” you and make this whole MEL cheating, ALBERT MANZO cheating, blow up in your face… again.The truth will never come out. Its all a fake story line… again.
Penny is your friend and did not sell you out to Bravo. Penny is not a paid HW. Kim is being paid and has a major motive. I am told Penny loves and honors YOU… and just wants to help you but KIM and the Bravo Producers are in cahoots…
This Thursday and this Saturday, during filming, again KIM is being paid to approach you and leak gossip about Melissa/Albert.Walk away and get yourself a new story arc … you will NOT be vindicated.@BravoAndy hates you! Bravo is lying to you… don’t let your ego fall for it again…
Ask the field producer Todd what he said to KIM…last NIGHT…and why all the producers had a major meeting during the filming…
TRE, you will look like you tried to bring poor Melissa down, and now you’re going to look like your trying to bring down Caroline and her marriage out of spite and revenge…
Caroline has a contract with Bravo and her sons have a separate contract with Bravo…Bravo will not let Caroline or her family look bad at all.Caroline will get the Mother Teresa edit and you will get the nasty, jealous, revenge edit.
@KimDPosche said she would not give bravo any more free story lines and bravo still needs to connect the dots for TRE and MEL = “strippergate”…
KIM is a paid HW and promised BRAVO… “Kim promised Bravo she would deliver the goods on Melissa Gorga … what is happening is Kim is attending events and/or hosting events..Nov 30 NJ Fund, Dec 1 PFS, Dec 4 fashion thing??, Dec 5 filming at Posche Store, this Thursday lunch and this Saturday’s “Girls Night Out”…
Bravo is filming and having Kim and Penny go up to Teresa Guidice and say things like – “do you want to know about your brother’s wife”… AND Caroline Manzo’s husband cheated on Caroline, and that Penny knows all the scoop on Melissa Gorga and Albert Manzo through the Salon that Robert Polumbo OWNS….
Teresa, ask Roxanne what she said to KIM and Penny…..
WHO IS FILMING #rhoNJ: Teresa Guidice, Carolne Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, Melissa Gorga, Kathy Wakile, Jennifer Dalton, Kim DePaola = ALL PAID = BRAVO CONTRACT
FRIENDS FILMING = “FOT” = Friend of Teresa:
Elvira Grau, the event planner, DJ Envy’s Wife Gia Casey, Priscilla Distasio is Teresa’s makeup artist and best friend.Linda Berger is divorced with two sons and attended S4 Teresa premiere party.
Penny Drossos, the Solon owner where the Kim D, Teresa “StripperGate” took place, and is married to John Karagiorgis @JohnnyTheGrk = she filmed S4 but was completely cut out; her husband was filmed S4 – on cell phone Bald GUY – friends with Angelo Vrohidis
Noelle Brescia who is friends with Kim DePaola
“FOM”: Friend of Melissa:
Melina Milionis, Kim Sozzi, Randy Narod (big time PR REP), Kathy and her family, Rosie, and the Marco Sisters.
Caroline Manzo has her kids, as well as her extended family – Jac, Chris, Dina
TERESA AND FRIENDS ARE GOING FOR A SPIN OFF SHOW****
CAROLINE HAS ONE WITH THE FILMING OF CHRIS/ALBIE’S RESTAURANT, plus her book coming out in March
All I seen Melissa doing is attending every party and every opening of an envelope.
Juicy Joe, Joe Gorga, Richy Wakile,Kim D, Jennifer Dalton (the brand new HW), Melina Milionis, Kim Sozzi, Randy Narod (big time PR REP), as well as Elvira Grau — a Russian immigrant who was going to be the newest housewife. She made her first appearance during RHONJ season 2 episode 8, where she was the party planner for Teresa’s housewarming party
Caroline Manzo, Chris and Jac Laurita — Albie Manzo did not attend as they were in California for a paid appearance at a Walgreens Grand Opening. READ my twitter timeline for the complete details of that event.
@whoopibella @weloveandycohen
People Are Talking and Bravo May Be Saving It for Season 5 (or Maybe Not Since Teresa Seems to be Andy’s Target)
There must be a lascivious story behind how Joe and Melissa Gorga met in Cancun in March 2003 because they’ve fabricated an unbelievable story about how Joe didn’t approach her in Cancun even though he said to his best friend, “that’s my wife”, when he first saw her there at the pool. She and Joe deny actually interacting in Cancun, which doesn’t ring true, and they both overacted during the season 4 reunion when the topic of how they met in Cancun was brought up. They are hiding something about what happened when they first met there. They both say they officially met later in the summer of 2003 at a Jersey Shore club and Joe said, “you’re the girl form the pool” in Cancun and “he remembered how my hair was.” I think the Greeks (Penny Drossos and Johnny Karagiorgis) and others know the real Cancun story (apparently with photos to back it up) and are waiting to expose it on camera in season 5, if given the chance.
“Melissa Gorga, Yea long lost fuck of joe gorga back in Cancun! Don’t make me break out the Picts….. Actually @frankabba has em on a cd.” – Pete Giudice, September 19, 2012, Twitter
During part 2 of the season 4 reunion, when discussing the gold-digger accusation, this was the exchange between Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga:
Teresa: This is what happened. She dated my brother’s best friend.
Melissa: What! Woe, woe, woe! Excuse me!
Teresa: She never wanted anything to do with him [Teresa's brother]. She knew him back in Cancun days.
Melissa puts her hand on Teresa’s upper arm and pushes her back while screaming: What are you talking about?! Say it to me! Say it to me.
Teresa: Get your hands off of me. Do not touch me. I’ll press charges right now.
More yelling from Melissa, which makes what everyone is saying inaudible.
Melissa: I never married him for money. Ever, ever, ever! We fell in love. Because that didn’t happen for you doesn’t mean it didn’t happen for me. You wish that my life was like your life and everyone can see it now, and you hate that. She’s sitting here talking about my husband, my marriage, how we met. It’s all bullshit. She’s lying! She’s lying! (Andy tries to interject and change the topic.) This is not fair. I don’t even want (Andy is still trying to interject). I’m not going to fight anymore because everything’s a lie!
During part 3 of the season 4 reunion, out of nowhere Joe Giudice asks Melissa Gorga:
Juicy: How did you really met Joe Gorga?
Joey, enraged, screams: Shut the f–k up about my f–king wife!
Penny Drossos tweeted on September 19, 2012:
51 cards n 51 witness’s …
John Karagiorgis tweeted on September 19, 2012:
Do you really want to get ugly @melissagorga @joegorga ? @PDKhair is holding cards & there’s 51 more cards in deck! Wanna play?
So the real story of how they met in Cancun is obviously a subject that the Gorgas don’t want discussed, especially on camera.
The photo above of Melissa Gorga from NJGuido.com was taken at Club Deko (Club Deko is now Ikon Lounge) in Sayreville, NJ, on April 12, 2003, and was sent to Fame-Whorgas by Dilettante (@AutumnLeaves61). The identity of the others in the photo is unknown.
The photo was taken a month after Joe Gorga first met Melissa Marco, if you believe Joe’s story of when they met, which would have been during Spring Break in Cancun March 2003 (and the same time MTV was taping ‘The Real Cancun’) when Melissa was 24; Melissa stated it was when she was 21, but she’s obviously lying.
Joe told Ryan Seacrest that he first saw Melissa during Spring Break in Cancun (when she was 24, which would have been March 2003), but he claims that he didn’t speak to her (even though he said to himself ‘that’s my wife). He said that he randomly ran into her six months later in a club at the Jersey shore, which would have been around October 2003.
“I was in Cancun. I was sitting in the pool and I had a girl on the right and a girl on the left. They were fighting over me. Kissing one, kissing the other one. As I was doing the turn, I saw this girl across the pool, curly hair, leopard bikini, sunglasses. I look over to my best friend while I’m holding these two girls and say ‘that’s my wife’.” However, they did not even speak while in Cancun. It wasn’t until they got back to New Jersey that they randomly met. “We were out, we were down at a beach club and he came up to me and said ‘you’re the girl form the pool,’ he was persistent. It took him a couple of times, I didn’t give him my number right a way,” Melissa says. “He freaked me out a bit, he told me what I had on, the hotel I was at, the sunglasses I had on, he remembered how my hair was.”
A year later, in July 2012, Melissa described their first encounter to Examiner.com. She stated that she first met Joe when she was 21, which would have been 2000 and not 2003; however, her timeline doesn’t make sense, so she has to be lying about her age at the time they met (she probably lied to cover up the fact that Joe Gorga was 28 and well beyond the age for partying with college kids during Spring Break). During the interview with Examiner.com, she also said they met again back in New Jersey in the summer:
“Originally we saw each other on Spring Break in Cancun, we were so young! I was there for my 21st birthday and he was 25 and everyone from New York and New Jersey would always go to Cancun for Spring Break. We were both there and he was there with his friends and he says that I went walking by with my girlfriends and my bikini, and he remembers everything that I was wearing like it was yesterday. He pointed to me and said, ‘That’s going to be my wife’. His best friend that was with him confirmed this story all the time, so that was kind of the first time we met unofficially. Then we were back in New Jersey in the summer at a Beach Club and he saw me and it just went from there.”
In May 2011, Melissa told a similar story to NorthJersey.com but didn’t give her age or the year they met:
Their paths first crossed during a spring break in Cancún. “He saw me … and he looked at his best friend and said, ‘That’s gonna be my wife’,” says Gorga, who adds that when they ran into each other back in Jersey, “he came over to me and said, ‘I saw you in your leopard bikini in Cancún.’ I said, ‘Well, why didn’t you talk to me?’ He said, ‘Well, you didn’t look like you wanted to talk.’ And it went from there.”
In her most recent rendition of their love story, in April 2012, Melissa said Joe Gorga used to come see her when she was a bartender at Lookers Gentleman’s Club while in college. According to a ‘pay register ’ that she released in December 2011, she worked at Lookers the entire 2003 calendar year.
Here’s how she describes the early stages of their relationship, when she was 24 years old:
“It was one of those things that we went out on a first date and we saw each other every day after. We both just knew, we were at the age when we were ready to settle down. I was graduating college and he was 28 and he was done partying, so it was a good time for us really. It was instant, we were engaged six months after we met and we were married four months later, so within a year we were married. It was one of the things where I think a lot of people wait because when you’re younger you don’t have the money for the house or the wedding, but we were fortunate in that regard and it just worked for us.”
Here’s an here is an excerpt from her Bravo blog, “Like a Prayer”, where she gives another story about how they met:
“I think a big misconception about me and Joe is that we got married and were just rich and had everything we could ever want. Not true. When I first met Joe and for the first few years we were married, he owned a landscaping company. We did well for two newlyweds in our 20s, but nothing like we are now. We worked for it together. From the day we got engaged, Joe asked me to work in his office as his secretary and suggested not going into the school system to be a teacher. I had just graduated college and really wanted my own classroom. I did go to a teachers’ fair and got hired as a teacher, but after discussing it with Joe, I decided not to take the job and to work with him in his office. Joe felt like with me backing him up rather than have a stranger running things, we would make the business more successful. Well Joe was right. I worked in that office 9 to 5 Monday through Friday and did it. Even when Antonia was born, I used to bring her and all her toys to the office and I would work all day with her there. It wasn’t always easy. There were times (like the one you heard me remind Joe of) that we couldn’t even buy diapers when Gino was first born. 2008 was definitely a hard year. We had invested in real estate and the market went sour. I’m sure everyone remembers that and is still feeling the effects of the economy. Joe and I are gamblers, and I mean that in a good way. We take chances and sometimes we win and sometimes we lose, but as long as we have our two hands and each other, we can always get back on top, and that’s what we did.”
In season 3 episode 6, Joe tells the the story of how they met in Cancun, and he says she was working three jobs at the time and explains how he promised her he’d put her on a pedestal. Melissa had her boob job in the photo above, at age 24, as a college student, studying to be a teacher. In season 4 episode 20, Melissa says she was a second-grade teacher when she was bartending at Lookers in 2003. However, in her April 2012 she told Examiner.com that she was in college (she didn’t graduate from college until January 2004 — see photo below of her college diploma, which she tweeted on September 24, 2012) when Joe visited her while she was working at Lookers (which, according to her pay register, was in 2003). During part 3 of the season 4 reunion special, Joe Gorga said Melissa was a teacher when he met her and in the next breath says she was in college when her met her. So their story is falling apart because they can’t keep their lies straight.
“My college degree;.) #rhonj
http://t.co/kFtzK3yc ” – Melissa Gorga, September 24, 2012, Twitter
Why would a 24-year-old working her way through college to become a elementary school teacher need, or have the money to pay for, a boob job unless someone helped her out, like her bosses at Lookers (and why would they pay for them unless there was something in it for them)?
“I was blessed with a pretty sexy ass, so I wear short shorts to tease: ‘I know you want me, but stay over there’.” – Melissa Gorga, season 4 episode 6
Timeline from season 3 episode 6, etc.:
Melissa’s parents divorced in 1993, she moved to Florida with her mother and had a lesbian relationship as a 16-year-old in 1995, she was arrested for ‘retail theft’ at age 18 in Florida in 1997, she graduated from Boca Raton High School in 1998, she moved back to New Jersey sometime after 1998, she started dating Joe in October 2003, she moved in with him in December 2003, she graduated from New Jersey City University in January 2004, and she married Joe in August 2004.
TRANSCRIPT of Melissa Gorga admitting she LIED about being a teacher and was never a teacher PLUS VIDEO:
From the August 2011 MyFox video (when asked about what she was doing before being on RHONJ):
“I was a stay at home mom, I went to school to become a teacher, I never actually went and got the job, I graduated and got engaged all at the same time and my husband wanted me to run his business for him.”
From the season 4 finale at the Posche Fashion Show (taped on September 27, 2011):
Melissa: “First of all I was a school teacher, it’s very different from being a dancer. When your brother met me I was a school teacher do you understand that?”
So let’s summarize: NJGuido.com has photos of Melissa partying in 2003, and that site also runs the NLSociety.com forum where in 2003 members were discussing the hot Catholic-girl dancers at Lookers and the dancer with fake boobs and wearing a cross.
For another photo of Melissa Marco at NJGuido.com, posted April 7, 2003, click on the link below (photo labeled, “This pinned topic is for you to share who or what picture is hot for the week. Hotties of the week”):
“I think there are far too many ‘kawinkydinks’ and the writing is on the wall.”
Related:
‘Tommy the Greek’ from Marlboro, NJ, is the Man That Melissa Gorga Wanted
“You have pulled Teresa and Joe away from each other by manipulating his own thinking. When is enough enough? You were nothing more then a simple girl who wore imitation clothing to try to fit in or always wore the pink fuzzy sweater everywhere you went. You targeted only men with money and did anything for them to gain their acceptance. You ‘stalked’ Tommy the Greek from Marlboro, NJ, and did whatever he wished even though you knew he was using you. You even went to the extreme of following him in nightclub bathrooms. His family didn’t except (sic) you and you ‘settled’ for Joe because of the home he lived in. Joe comes from a proud Italian, old fashioned family with morals and values. But you managed to manipulate his mind and because his family is supportive, you were excepted (sic).”
“You were nothing more then a handoff from Joe’s friends, wasn’t he third in line? Love at first sight my ass. Yea he saw you in Cancun while his and your friends had ‘fun’ from the very first day, but you wanted nothing to do with him until he caught up with you at Lookers with one of his friends you were actually going out with. Another joke. F*cking hand me down. Then you found out he had money and you went on the prawl. Shall I continue? Nah, I’ll save it for when Penny gets on the show and one at a time we’ll be getting our hair done by Penny and Robert and exposing everything. Oh, you remember Robert don’t you? Lol, Season 5 will be interesting.”
Melissa Gorga “Settled” for Joe
“Yes you met him on spring break, but you didn’t give him the time of day and said he was too short and not your type. Joe was persistent though, I’ll give him that. Once you saw he was a hard working man with money in his pocket, nice home, and can easily manipulate him, you locked him in.”
“Danielle was NOT at the reunion but Kim D was! Kim D owns a boutique, and the season 4 finale will feature her glamorous Posche Fashion Show where Melissa gets called a stripper from her former manager [Angelo from Lookers]. That episode will show Joe Gorga swearing and disrespecting Kim D. My insider reveals that when the two are face to face at the reunion taping, Joe Gorga apologizes for the things he says to Kim D, but she isn’t having it! My insider reveals that Kim D also says she was later aware that Angelo was going to call Melissa a stripper; and she says she has an agenda with Melissa because, in the past, Melissa purposely promoted other boutiques and has bashed Kim D. Kim D says Teresa had nothing to do with Melissa’s former manager [at Lookers] calling Melissa out on being a dancer! Melissa’s former manager [at Lookers] Angelo Vrohidis has also denied Teresa had anything to do with it.” [AllAboutTRH EXCLUSIVE Details On What Went On At The Season 4 RHONJ Reunion!, September 9, 2012]
“Watching the episode brought back so many emotions. I was sick. It makes me want to stand in front of Teresa and scream at her. It makes my skin crawl… I was a bartender. Lookers [where she knew Angelo] was not even a strip club. There was no nudity. It was girls wearing bikinis. There were no lap dances, no back room. I wore black shorts, a white tank top and sneakers.” – Melissa Gorga, September 19, 2012, Us Weekly
By the way Melissa, you and I and many know that at Lookers even the bartenders dance. I should know! It’s called Bartender’s Royal…I have pay stubs. But I may of danced! Isn’t that where you really met Joe G who lol was a regular at Lookers & many others gogo bars in Linden…or as you say lol bikini bars. NO SUCH THING AS A BIKINI BAR. It’s called GOGO bar…Joe was a great tipper & loved the girls! Of course this is my opinion…“wink wink.” Right Joey G. Thanks for the shower. Meaning throwing money at the dancer. – Hailey, January 20, 2012 at 2:59 pm, AllAboutTRH
Was Melissa Gorga the ‘Dancer’ Wearing the Cross at Lookers in 2003?
The following forum discussion in 2003 by patrons of Lookers mentions a dancer with a “fake chest” who “wears a cross around her neck.”This dancer could be Melissa Marco Gorga and, if so, then she definitely danced off the clock at Lookers in addition to bartending on the clock.
From NLSociety Forum [Warning - some of the language is crude]:
Started by GuidoMASTER, Nov 17 2003 11:41 PM
GuidoMASTER
Posted 17 November 2003 – 11:41 PM
in there wear a cross around there neck while playing with themselves in front of me, makes me feel shaddy stuffing 5 bucks down your fake chest with Jesus right there watching. Anyone else feel weird when this happens? That place had some of the hottest, most sexiest dancers I have seen in years. Where do they come from? Why don’t the girls I hang out with look like that? HOLYSHIT. Its amazing what cosmetic surgery could do. Place is full of Catholic girls. Place is GREAT.
Bryce_Paradyce
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:56 AM
I agree…Lookers does have some of the best talent in the area. The cross necklace is kinda weird, but no where near as bad as a wedding ring. Why the *beep* would I wanna give a married chick $$$ when she’s only bringing it home to her family????? Then I realize I’m only there to have fun w/ my buddies…who gives a *beep* if she looks good and entertains you?
TheLegendKiller
Posted 17 November 2003 – 11:52 PM
That has to be one of the hottest strip clubs in NJ. No doubt they have the hottest girls in there. The only problem with that place is, the girls don’t ever *beep* stop coming around looking for money. It is like a conveyer belt, it just never stops. I like the more shady strip clubs……
QTwitaBUTI
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:42 AM
are they completely nude?? or just topless???
TheLegendKiller
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:48 AM
Neither……..They sell alcohol…
QTwitaBUTI
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:49 AM
so then what do they do….???
TheLegendKiller
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:51 AM
They have thongs and bras or other outfits…….
QTwitaBUTI
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:53 AM
but they play with themselves in front of guys??? i thought girls only did that at strip clubs…and why do u give them money if they have clothes on??
QTwitaBUTI
Posted 18 November 2003 – 01:00 AM
so basically they just dance in underwear for you at this place and make a lot of money….sh*t i could do that!!
TheLegendKiller
Posted 18 November 2003 – 12:56 AM
I never saw that at Lookers…Some girl playing with herself.
freeyayo
Posted 18 November 2003 – 02:51 AM
It happens….
TheLegendKiller
Posted 18 November 2003 – 01:09 AM
and if you wanna dance, I’m sure something can be worked out when we get there with the Mgr.
Melissa has threatened to sue people for calling her a stripper, but she has not made the same threat for calling her a dancer.Lookers’ girls don’t strip: they dance around in thongs and bras or other outfits while selling cocktails. So it’s really just semantics, and she is telling the truth when she says she wasn’t a stripper… If they don’t take their clothes off and wear lingerie the whole time, then they’re not truly stripping, they’re ‘dancing.’
How Did Joe and Melissa Gorga Meet?
Here’s what Teresa knows (from RHONJ season 3 episode 6): Melissa started dating Joe in October 2003, moved in with him in December 2003, and married him in August 2004. In RHONJ season 3 episode 6, Joe tells the the story of how they met in Cancun, and he says she was working three jobs at the time. Melissa was working at Lookers in 2003 (she worked there the entire year, according to her ‘pay register’, even though she said that she was “a bartender for a couple of months years ago, it was such a short time”), so she was working at Lookers when Joe met and dated her.
Prior to releasing her Lookers’ ‘pay register’ in December 2011 (which showed she worked at Lookers the full 2003 calendar year) to prove she was only a bartender not a dancer, Gorga said on her website on September 30, 2011:
“I did bartend for a few weeks at a bikini bar while I was in college. My outfit was a tank top, shorts and sneakers…Even if I had been a dancer, I do not know why anyone would care 10 years later.” [Melissa Gorga, Her Website, September 30, 2011]
In her Bravo blog on April 30, 2012, she changed her story to fit with the time frame of the pay register she released, which show that she worked at Lookers for the full 2003 calendar year:
“I put myself through college with the help of my godfather and worked three jobs doing it. I was substitute teaching, working in a tanning salon, and bar tending one night a week.” [Melissa Gorga, Like a Prayer, April 30, 2012]
In season 4 episode 20, filmed on September 27, 2011, she said on camera that she worked at Lookers less than a week, and hated it.
In an interview with Ryan Seacrest in June 2011, Joe claims to have first seen her in a leopard bikini in Cancun (a source said this was during Spring Break, which would have been in March 2003 – see below, “Melissa Gorga ‘Settled’ For Joe”) but that he didn’t even speak to her (even though he said to himself ‘that’s my wife). He claims that he randomly ran into her six months later in a club at the Jersey shore (which would have been October 2003). If he said to himself in Cancun, ‘that’s my wife’, why didn’t he approach her then; it doesn’t make sense at all to say that but not try to actually meet her (how did he expect to make her his wife if he didn’t even introduce himself to her… how would he know that he’d ever run into her again… supposedly he didn’t even know who she was, where she was from or what was her name). It seems more likely that he introduced himself to her in Cancun and they hung out but she blew him off because he was “too short and not her type.” And it wasn’t until six months later, back in New Jersey, that she finally gave in to his persistence after seeing “he was a hard working man with money in his pocket, a nice home, and she could easily manipulate him.”
“I was in Cancun. I was sitting in the pool and I had a girl on the right and a girl on the left. They were fighting over me. Kissing one, kissing the other one. As I was doing the turn, I saw this girl across the pool, curly hair, leopard bikini, sunglasses. I look over to my best friend while I’m holding these two girls and say ‘that’s my wife’.” However, they did not even speak while in Cancun. It wasn’t until they got back to New Jersey that they randomly met. “We were out, we were down at a beach club and he came up to me and said ‘you’re the girl form the pool,’ he was persistent. It took him a couple of times, I didn’t give him my number right a way,” Melissa says. “He freaked me out a bit, he told me what I had on, the hotel I was at, the sunglasses I had on, he remembered how my hair was.”
In May 2011, Melissa told a similar story to NorthJersey.com. Here’s an excerpt:
Their paths first crossed during a spring break in Cancún. “He saw me … and he looked at his best friend and said, ‘That’s gonna be my wife,’ ” says Gorga, who adds that when they ran into each other back in Jersey, “he came over to me and said, ‘I saw you in your leopard bikini in Cancún.’ I said, ‘Well, why didn’t you talk to me?’ He said, ‘Well, you didn’t look like you wanted to talk.’ And it went from there.”
In July 2012, Melissa told the story again, but claimed she was 21 when they first met at Spring Break in Cancun, which would have been March 2000, but this is obviously is a lie since she then goes on to say they met again back in New Jersey in the summer, which both she and Joe claim was in 2003:
“Originally we saw each other on Spring Break in Cancun, we were so young! I was there for my 21st birthday and he was 25 and everyone from New York and New Jersey would always go to Cancun for Spring Break. We were both there and he was there with his friends and he says that I went walking by with my girlfriends and my bikini, and he remembers everything that I was wearing like it was yesterday. He pointed to me and said, ‘That’s going to be my wife’. His best friend that was with him confirmed this story all the time, so that was kind of the first time we met unofficially.Then we were back in New Jersey in the summer at a Beach Club and he saw me and it just went from there.”
They married in 2004, less than a year after meeting in 2003 when she was 24, so her timeline doesn’t add up because three years didn’t lapsed between the time he first saw her in Cancun and the time he ran into her again in the summer at the Jersey shore.
“It was one of those things that we went out on a first date and we saw each other every day after. We both just knew, we were at the age when we were ready to settle down. I was graduating college and he was 28 and he was done partying, so it was a good time for us really. It was instant, we were engaged six months after we met and we were married four months later, so within a year we were married. It was one of the things where I think a lot of people wait because when you’re younger you don’t have the money for the house or the wedding, but we were fortunate in that regard and it just worked for us.”
She said she ‘was graduating’ college when they married in 2004, so she didn’t graduate until she was 24. Just a couple months prior to this interview, she told Reality Tea (April 12, 2012 article above), that she couldn’t remember the year she graduated college, which was the year she married, according to this July 2012 interview. She was lying to Reality Tea (of course she remembers—it was the same year she got married!) because she knew her timeline didn’t add up.
From AllAboutTRH’s post, “Melissa Gorga ‘Settled’ for Joe:”
“Yes you met him on spring break, but you didn’t give him the time of day and said he was too short and not your type. Joe was persistent though, I’ll give him that. Once you saw he was a hard working man with money in his pocket, nice home, and can easily manipulate him, you locked him in.”
“You have pulled Teresa and Joe away from each other by manipulating his own thinking. When is enough enough? You were nothing more then a simple girl who wore imitation clothing to try to fit in or always wore the pink fuzzy sweater everywhere you went. You targeted only men with money and did anything for them to gain their acceptance. You ‘stalked’ Tommy the Greek from Marlboro, NJ, and did whatever he wished even though you knew he was using you. You even went to the extreme of following him in nightclub bathrooms. His family didn’t except you and you ‘settled’ for Joe because of the home he lived in. Joe comes from a proud Italian, old fashioned family with morals and values. But you managed to manipulate his mind and because his family is supportive, you were excepted.”
Melissa and Kathy attacked Teresa: Kathy claiming she said something other than that (but not actually denying that she said that as well) and Melissa denying it ever happened. Teresa then said: “The truth comes out when you’re drinking.”
Above is a photo of the home in Franklin Lakes where Joe was living when he met Melissa in October 2003 (he bought the lot in 2001 and built the home in 2002-2003).He sold it to LaVar Arrington (formerly of the Washington Red Skins and NY Giants) for $2.45 million in 2006 (for a profit well over $1 million, which is how he was able to buy the lot and build the mansion in Montville); LaVar resold it at a significant loss for $1.75 million in 2008.
On April 30, 2012, in her Bravo blog, The Teresa Apology Tour, Teresa Giudice addressed the rumors she heard about Melissa and explained in more detail her concerns that Melissa Gorga is a gold-digger:
“As for the whole ‘gold digger’ thing with Melissa, I’m very protective of my only brother. He was engaged two times before Melissa, and I hated seeing his heart broken every time things didn’t work out. After that, he did date a lot of women who were interested in him for all the wrong reasons. So when he and Melissa were dating, she was at dinner with my family and she made a comment about how when she saw my brother’s house and how well he was doing, she wasn’t stupid, that she wasn’t going to let him go. From our family’s history with actual gold diggers, you can imagine it wasn’t a great thing to hear. She probably said it from nerves and trying to be funny, but it rubbed me the wrong way.
“We live in a small town. I heard things about the type of guys Melissa dated before my brother, and I hear things I don’t like now. I pray they aren’t true. I hope my brother and Melissa stay married forever! I never should have brought it up on the show last season though, and I’m sorry. And I’ve learned not to bring up my concerns to my brother publicly or privately! It was a hard lesson, but I’ve learned it.”
‘Melissa’s Former Friend’ on March 1, 2012 at 4:19 pm said on AllAboutTRH.com:
Melissa,
You’re such a lying sack of sh*t. You were bragging to all how you want to take Teresa down way before you begged your way on the show. Top of everything else, Penny [Drossos Karagiorgis] now owns the same salon you went to and had your whole bridal party done at. Oh, you don’t remember or you’re just good at playing stupid? You are good at playing stupid!
Save your sh*t you pink sweater wearing, fake name brand wearing, Tommy Stalking, lap dancing, blow for blow bitch. We all know your lying pathetic ass. How was the Sushi Lounge 3 years ago? Who did you meet there? Did you tell Joe you were serving the Sushi? Lol.
You’re a joke and we are all lining up when Penny gets on to really put your bullsh*t ass On Display and on blast.
You were nothing more then a handoff from Joe’s friends, wasn’t he third in line? Love at first sight my ass. Yea he saw you in Cancun while his and your friends had “fun” from the very first day, but you wanted nothing to do with him until he caught up with you at Lookers with one of his friends you were actually going out with. Another joke. F*cking hand me down.
Then you found out he had money and you went on the prawl. Shall I continue? Nah, I’ll save it for when Penny gets on the show and one at a time we’ll be getting our hair done by Penny and Robert and exposing everything. Oh, you remember Robert don’t you? Lol, Season 5 will be interesting.
This was fantastic! I knew many of these facts but could not talk about them. The police report on Joe Gorga is the truth. Kathy also has 2 siblings with police records. I wish they would come to light. Heather Robinson is dying to get on the HWs. That’s why they brought her in for the hot-tub scene with Kathy’s sister. Melissa is very jealous of Heather. Joe Gorga called Kim D a Coke whore. Look at your own wife’s family JoeG & your cousins’ PD reports about drugs. We all live near each other. Albie & Greggy ARE VERY close! Caroline’s family is a complete mess. More needs to be exposed. This was a fantastic read. Thank you! Search hard and you will find the other police records. There is so much more that is hidden. #Fact – YOU’RE an open target when you become a public figure on The Telly! Teresa, you are a class act my dear. See you at your book signing. Melissa, I have had many a lunch dates with your sisters…Stop all the lies!…You never know how people talk when catching a buzz. Rich, you’re a slumlord…How’s the gas station doing? Caroline, I’m very glad Lauren got a lap-band. She’s very beautiful. Sad you trashed her on national TV. Wonder who I am? Don’t bother to send your investigators, I talk to you every week. Hmmmm…
Hailey says on April 25, 2012 at 8:38 am said on AllAboutTRH.com:
I said it before. Kathy has many family skeletons in her closet about her family! It will come out! Mel’s family has many also. All will come to light soon enough! Let’s all hear about the siblings of Kathy that she hides. Mel, your sisters and their husbands are pure drunks!
How Do Penny Drossos and Melissa Gorga Know Each Other?
Radio Interview with Penny Drossos of Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ on WTBQ-FM, April 11, 2012:
“Penny has a long history with Melissa, and knew Melissa long before her housewife days. In fact, when Melissa was casted for RHONJ, she actually called Penny [who she was not on good terms with her at the time] to boast.” [author unknown, anonymous e-mail published at StoopidHousewives.com]
“[Penny Drossos Karagiorgis], a well-educated former teacher turned businesswoman, was never a fan of Melissa ever since the self-proclaimed ‘Christian’ worked as a stripper at her family-owned strip club [Lookers Gentlemen’s Club]. Melissa must have never took a moment to think about her own skeletons when she made it her mission to …destroy Teresa Giudice… Joe did not meet Melissa in the romantic way of which they self-promote. Moreover, Joe Gorga was not even the man who Melissa was truly out for. In fact, the man who Melissa obsessed over [Tommy the Greek from Marlboro, NJ] was a very good friend of Penny’s, who Melissa tried to strategically use to receive the approval of the man and his family… Any educated human being would think Melissa has some sort of psychological disorder for passive aggressively going after the one woman who knows more about her than she probably knows about herself… The narcissistic Melissa and Joe Gorga may be coming after the Karagiorgis family in hopes that their bullying tactics will shut them up like it did Tre. However, this family is not stupid, nor desperate, and they know everything about Melissa from the manager who purchased her breast implants down to the hardcore d***s ‘Missy’ and Joe Gorga used in the same party environment that their children were present in [multiple times].”
The family’s twitter handles [where one can view the side of the tweet war which was not deleted] are as follows: @PDKHair, @JohnnyTheGrk, @WillLoveInc.
NOTE: There is much more to this email. The email contained “facts” which, if true, would certainly explain WHY Melissa and Tree’s relationship is so fractured. And… if these “facts” are true, it would only confirm what Tree has been saying all along about WHY Miss Andy/Bravo/NJ Producers EVER pursued Melissa as a Housewife.
“The sender of the email included Will Love, Penny Drossos and Johnny Karagiorgio’s twitter accounts… read the original Melissa-bashing email sent to SH…HERE. StoopidHousewives called Penny’s salon in November 2011, as the salon name was included in the email. SH spoke briefly with a stunned Penny… obviously, she never expected a phone call! SH was told by Penny that she could not talk about anything! Penny did not confirm nor deny that she was the author of the email; Penny neither confirmed nor denied knowing the author of the email.”
Because of her Bravo contract for her part in season 4, Penny Drossos Karagiorgis cannot disclose all she knows about filming at her hair salon (Salon La Chateau Allure) and at the Posche Fashion Show on September 27, 2011. Here are her tweets prior to the above radio interview:
Penny Drossos @PDKHAIR
@oldnjlady yes unless it’s things pertaining to this season I can’t get into detail to do the contract I signed
In reply to Meagan Paige
Monday, April 9, 2012
Penny Drossos @PDKHAIR
@OldNJlady I promise this week I will answer anything u guys ask me !! Give me till Wednesday when I’m off ..promise
In reply to OldNJLady
Monday, April 9, 2012
Ilana Angel of the Jewish Journal interviewed Penny Drossos in early June 2012. Click here for the interview.
‘What a Joke’ on March 8, 2012 at 2:38 pm said at AllAboutTRH.com:
You know what’s funny about this whole Melissa bullsh*t, she’s still screwing around with a few of my boys from Bayonne, and Johnny The Greek knows everyone. My wife got me hooked on this HW crap, and now that Johnny and his wife Penny are gonna get on season 5, sh*t’s gonna hit the fan. Johnny knows all the boys: those still hitting it, those that are “away” that hit it, and those she gave it up for special items. Melissa is a ho & Joe is a clown. They’re screwed once Johnny & Penny get on.
‘The Source’ on April 9, 2012 at 9:33 pm said at AllAboutTRH.com:
Are you f*cking kidding me Melissa? Does this advice [include] meeting your ex at Sushi Lounge 2 years ago? Or your other ex’s in Bayonne or Lyndhurst?
tended bar there since the Kontos family opened the nightspot six years ago.
Isn’t that where you really met Joe G who lol was a regular at Lookers & many others gogo bars in Linden…or as you say lol bikini bars. NO SUCH THING AS A BIKINI BAR. It’s called GOGO bar…Joe was a great tipper & loved the girls! Of course this is my opinion…“wink wink.” Right Joey G. Thanks for the shower. Meaning throwing money at the dancer. – Hailey, 
else feel weird when this happens? That place had some of the hottest, most sexiest dancers I have seen in years. Where do they come from? Why don’t the girls I hang out with look like that? HOLYSHIT. Its amazing what cosmetic surgery could do. Place is full of Catholic girls. Place is GREAT.
only did that at strip clubs…and why do u give them money if they have clothes on??
Gorga used to come see her when she was a bartender at Lookers Gentleman’s Club while in college.
blow for blow bitch. We all know your lying pathetic ass. How was the Sushi Lounge 3 years ago? Who did you meet there? Did you tell Joe you were serving the Sushi? Lol.
